Anna Yaroslavsky

Anna Yaroslavsky is a Professor in the Department of Physics & Applied Physics at the University of Massachusetts Lowell (UML), part of the Kennedy College of Sciences. Her expertise lies in Biophotonics, with a focus on developing optical imaging technologies for cancer detection and tissue analysis. She holds a Ph.D. in Physics and Mathematics from Saratov State University (1999) and a BS in Physics (1990), earning a Diploma with Honors. Her research emphasizes wide-field optical imaging, light-tissue interaction, and multimodal image-guided interventions.

Key research areas include skin and breast cancer margin delineation, terahertz imaging, and fluorescence polarization for cancer diagnostics. She has authored over 100 publications, including seminal works on optical mapping of nonmelanoma skin cancers and multimodal imaging techniques. Notable grants include projects on terahertz imaging (2013), optical pathology (2010), and photobiomodulation therapy (2017–2024).

Her work bridges clinical applications and engineering, with patents on optical imaging devices and methods. She has presented globally, including at SPIE meetings and biomedical optics workshops. Current efforts focus on AI-driven optical diagnostics, thermal dosimetry, and translational cancer imaging technologies.