Xia, Jun
Dr. Jun Xia received his B.S. in Applied Physics in 2004 from the University of Science and Technology of China and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in 2010 from the University of Toronto. After post-doc training in Biomedical Engineering at the Washington University in St. Louis, he joined the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University at Buffalo as an Assistant Professor. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2020. Dr. Xia's lab has received support from NIH, NSF, Susan G. Komen foundation, New York State, and industries. He has published three book chapters and more than seventy papers in peer-reviewed journals in various areas of photothermal and photoacoustic research.
Kim, Chulhong
Dr. Chulhong Kim studied for his Ph.D. degree and postdoctoral training under Prof. Lihong Wang at Washington University in St. Louis. He currently holds Mueunjae Chair Professorship of Electrical Engineering, Convergence IT Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering at Pohang University of Science and Technology in Republic of Korea. He is the Director of Medical Device Innovation Center at POSTEH supported by Ministry of Education. He is also the Chief Executive Officer of Opticho Inc., a spinoff company to commercialize the preclinical and clinical photoacoustic imaging systems. He was the recipients of the 2020-2021 IEEE EMBS Distinguished Lecturer, the 2017 IEEE EMBS Early Career Achievement Award, the 2017 KAST Young Scientist Award, the 2016 Nightingale Award from IFMBE, etc. He has published 156 peer-reviewed journal articles (Nat. Nanotech., Nat. Mat., PNAS, Light Science & Applications, Cancer Research, Radiology, IEEE T. Medical Imaging, etc). His Google Scholar h-index and citations have reached 54 and over 11,000, respectively. His group's works have been selected for the 2016, 2017, and 2019 Seno Medical Best Paper Award Finalists in Photons Plus Ultrasound Conference (Photonics West, SPIE), the 2020 Hitachi High-tech Best Presentation Award in High Speed Imaging and Spectroscopy Conference (Photonics West, SPIE), the 2020 Microscopy Today Innovation Award, and 2020 Industry-Academia Project Challenge Award. He has currently served as a Section Editor of Photoacoustics Journal (premier journal in the field, IF: 5.87), an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, a Topical Editor of IEEE ACCESS, and an Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports, Applied Science, Sensors, etc. He is also elected as a member of Young Korean Academy of Science and Technology (Y-KAST). He is a Fellow of the SPIE.
Wang, Lidai
Lidai Wang received the B.Sc. and M.A.Sc. degrees in Precision Instruments from the Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, and the Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Washington University in St. Louis. Since 2015, he has been working as an Assistant/Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the City University of Hong Kong. His recent research interests include photoacoustic imaging, ultrafast photography, wavefront engineering, and computational optics. He is the co-inventor of six patents and has published more than 60 papers in peer-reviewed journals.
Yao, Junjie
Dr. Junjie Yao PhD is currently Assistant Professor at the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University, and a faculty member of Duke Center for In Vivo Microscopy, Duke Cancer Institute, Duke Institute of Brain Sciences, and Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics. Dr. Yao received his B.S. (2006) and M.S. (2008) degrees in Biomedical Engineering from Tsinghua University (Beijing, China), and his Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis in 2013 under the mentoring of Dr. Lihong V. Wang. Dr. Yao is the receipt of the 2019 IEEE Photonic Society Young Investigator Award, and 2021 National Jewish Fund Faculty Fellowship. He serves on the editorial board in Scientific Reports, Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery, Journal of Photoacoustics and Near-infrared and Laser Engineering. Dr. Yao has published more than 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals such as Nature Biotechnology, Nature Methods, Nature Medicine, Nature Biomedical Engineering, Nature Photonics, Nature Communication, PNAS, Optica, and PRL. Dr. Yao's research interest is in photoacoustic tomography (PAT) technologies in life sciences, especially in high-speed functional brain imaging and early-stage cancer detection. Dr. Yao has received more than 8 millions USD research funds from various agencies including NIH, AHA, and CZI. More information about Dr. Yao's research at http://photoacoustics.pratt.duke.edu/
