Piyush Raj

My name is Piyush Raj. I am currently a Research Fellow at the Wellman Centre for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, with a joint appointment at the Broad Insititute of MIT and Harvard, working in Prof. Andy Yun's lab. I am currently involved in developing instrumentation and computational framework to correlate time-lapse live-cell imaging and high-throughput single-cell sequencing experiments with cellular barcodes, for better understanding of dynamic cellular processes.

I obtained my Ph.D from Johns Hopkins Univeristy under the mentorship of  Prof. Ishan Barman, focusing on quantitative phase imaging and Raman spectroscopy. Before that, I obtained my M. Tech in Nanoscience and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore, where I was awarded the Institute Medal for academic excellence. I completed my B. Tech in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati, followed by a year-long stint as a workshop supervisor at L&T Heavy Engineering. 

You can find a summary of my research areas below, and my list of technical expertise here.

Email - praj3@mgh.harvard.edu;  rajpiyush@broadinstitute.org