Research Scientist
David studied biomedical engineering at Purdue University (BS '18) where he developed an interest in optical microscopy as an undergraduate research assistant in the Huang Group. After graduating, David joined the Functional Optical Imaging Lab (FOIL) at Northwestern University as a biomedical engineering graduate student (MS '20, PhD '23). At Northwestern, David focused on the development of visible-light optical coherence tomography (vis-OCT), and developed a novel extension of vis-OCT called vis-OCT fibergraphy, which enables in vivo visualization and quantification of retinal ganglion cell (RGC) axon bundles in the retina. In addition, David introduced techniques for improving noise suppression in OCT images. David joined the BIOS lab at Duke in 2023, where he focuses on research for low-cost OCT and spectroscopic OCT techniques.
Appointments and Affiliations
- Research Scientist
Contact Information
- Email Address: david.a.miller@duke.edu
Representative Publications
- Fan, Weijia, Roman Kuranov, David A. Miller, Tingwei Zhang, Wei-Hong Yeo, Raymond Atkinson, Pengpeng Zhang, Cheng Sun, and Hao F. Zhang. “Swept-source visible-light optical coherence tomography.” Optics Letters 50, no. 3 (February 2025): 928–31. https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.544499.
- Price, Hillel B., Ge Song, Wan Wang, Erin O’Kane, Kechao Lu, Evan Jelly, David A. Miller, and Adam Wax. “Development of next generation low-cost OCT towards improved point-of-care retinal imaging.” Biomedical Optics Express 16, no. 2 (February 2025): 748–59. https://doi.org/10.1364/boe.551625.
- Miller, D. A., Y. Xu, R. Highland, V. T. Nguyen, W. J. Brown, G. Hong, J. Yao, and A. Wax. “Enhanced penetration depth in optical coherence tomography and photoacoustic microscopy in vivo enabled by absorbing dye molecules.” Optica 12, no. 1 (January 20, 2025): 24–30. https://doi.org/10.1364/OPTICA.546779.
- Miller, David A., Marta Grannonico, Mingna Liu, Elise Savier, Kara McHaney, Alev Erisir, Peter A. Netland, Jianhua Cang, Xiaorong Liu, and Hao F. Zhang. “Visible-Light Optical Coherence Tomography Fibergraphy of the Tree Shrew Retinal Ganglion Cell Axon Bundles.” IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging 43, no. 8 (August 2024): 2769–77. https://doi.org/10.1109/tmi.2024.3380530.
- Gupta, Deven K., Robert Highland, David A. Miller, and Adam Wax. “Utilizing quantitative phase microscopy to localize fluorescence in three dimensions via the transport of intensity equation.” Optics Letters 49, no. 15 (August 2024): 4457–60. https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.532991.