Hi! πŸ‘‹πŸΎ

I'm Tobi.
πŸ‘¨πŸ»β€πŸŽ“ I'm a Biomedical Engineering PhD candidate at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIChicago).
πŸ’Œ I live in the intersection of healthcare, tech and big questions.
πŸ’Œ I'm into non-linear opportunities, things that don't make sense at first but end up changing everything.
πŸ’Œ I think in patterns, build across disciplines, and love connecting with people who see the world differently.

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The Pressure of Academic Success: Personal Reflections on Deception and the Pursuit of Perfection
β€œRepeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth” - Joseph Goebbels

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  1. Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds - Charles Mackay
  2. From Third World to First: The Singapore Story - Lee Kuan Yew
  3. Think and Grow Rich - Napolean Hill

Latest News πŸ“°

  • [Paper] (2025/06/05) Our work on Doppler OCT verifies pulsation-induced anisotropic vessel lumen dynamics in the human retina is now published in Optics Letters!
  • [Graduation] (2025/05/21) Dissertation submitted and officially graduated from UIC! Next chapter awaits :)
  • [Presentation] (2025/01/28) I presented our work on functional OCT reveals anisotropic vessel pulsatility in human retinas at Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) conference in San Francisco!
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β€œWhen I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.” – Abraham Joshua Heschel.