Vahid Abbasian is a graduate research assistant at the Department of Radiation Oncology in Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, studying Imaging Science at the university. He received his BSc and MSc degrees, both in Physics. In his MSc, he focused on Optics and extended microsphere-assisted microscopy into digital holography to obtain super-resolved 3D images. He demonstrated the capabilities of the setup by using it for precise cell identification and surface profilometry. Vahid's current research focuses on developing simple and cost-effective, yet efficient optical imaging and sensing approaches for life and material sciences applications. He is a student member of SPIE and OPTICA and the associated student chapter at Washington University (WU Spectra). Vahid has published papers in Nature, Optica, IOP Publishing, Light Publishing Group, and Elsevier journals and has served as an ad-hoc reviewer for Optica Publishing Group, AIP Publishing, IEEE Photonics, and Elsevier.