Abdul Sagar
Staff Scientist at National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Bethesda, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolAbdul Sagar is a Staff Scientist and NIH Fellow with 11 years of experience at the intersection of biomedical optics, instrumentation, and computational imaging, currently advancing FLIM acquisition and live analysis at NCI/NIH. He holds a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from UW–Madison, where he built time-domain FLIM hardware and software, developed label-free metabolic fingerprints of microglia using machine learning, and contributed open-source acquisition and Fiji plugins. His work blends low-level C++/DSP development with ML (ANNs, CNNs) to accelerate and analyze lifetime imaging for in vivo and clinical applications. Notably, he pairs hardware innovations—like fiber-based spectral/lifetime extraction and SPC-150 FIFO integration—with software architecture changes to enable real-time FLIM. Based in Bethesda, he frames complex biophotonics problems through both engineering rigor and biological insight into cellular metabolism.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Biomedical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Biomedical Engineering at University of Wisconsin-MadisonBSc Engr Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BSc Engr Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
English
Github Skills (6)
imagej10
exponential2
image-data2
lifetime2
curve1
curve-fitting1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
pattersg/Photoswitching_Phasor_Plotter
Sep 2020 - Feb 2025
Contributions:29 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
uw-loci/SpectralAnalysis
Jun 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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