Lihong V. Wang

Lihong V. Wang
Residence United States
Alma mater Huazhong University of Science & Technology; Rice University PhD
Known for photoacoustic imaging
Scientific career
Fields Optical Engineering
Institutions Washington University in St. Louis; California Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisors Robert Curl; Richard Smalley; Frank Tittel

Lihong V. Wang (Chinese: 汪立宏) is currently the Bren Professor of Medical Engineering and Electrical Engineering at the Andrew and Peggy Cherng Department of Medical Engineering at California Institute of Technology and was formerly the Gene K. Beare Distinguished Professorship of Biomedical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. He is renowned for his contributions to the field of Photoacoustic imaging technologies and inventing the world's fastest camera with more than 10 trillion frames per second.[1][2] His laboratory was the first to report functional photoacoustic tomography, 3D photoacoustic microscopy (PAM), photoacoustic endoscopy, photoacoustic reporter gene imaging, the photoacoustic Doppler effect, the universal photoacoustic reconstruction algorithm, microwave-induced thermoacoustic tomography, ultrasound-modulated optical tomography, time-reversed ultrasonically encoded (TRUE) optical focusing, nonlinear photoacoustic wavefront shaping (PAWS), compressed ultrafast photography (10 trillion frames/s), Mueller-matrix optical coherence tomography, and optical coherence computed tomography.[3] He was the recipient of several award, including NIH's FIRST, NSF's CAREER, NIH Director's Pioneer,[4] and NIH Director's Transformative Research awards.[5] He was conferred with an honorary doctorate from the Lund University, Sweden.[6] He also received the OSA C.E.K. Mees Medal "for seminal contributions to photoacoustic tomography and Monte Carlo modeling of photon transport in biological tissues and for leadership in the international biophotonics community".[7] Prof. Wang has been conferred upon by an honorary doctorate degree by Lund University located in Sweden for his contributions towards the field of Biomedical Imaging.[8]

He has received more than 37 research grants as principal investigator with an estimated cumulative budget of more than $47M.[9] He has published more than 470 peer-reviewed journal articles including Nature, Science, and PNAS. His book Biomedical Optics: Principles and Imaging[10] was one of the first in the field, and received the Joseph W. Goodman Book Writing Award.[11] He was the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Biomedical Optics from 2010-2017.

References

  1. ↑ X. Wang; et al. (2003). "Non-invasive laser-induced photoacoustic tomography for structural and functional imaging of the brain in vivo". Nature Biotechnology. 21 (7): 803–806. doi:10.1038/nbt839. PMID 12808463.
  2. ↑ "Single-shot real-time video recording of a photonic Mach cone induced by a scattered light pulse".
  3. ↑ "Lihong V. Wang profile".
  4. ↑ "2012 Pioneer Award Recipients". Retrieved 9 September 2016.
  5. ↑ "2013 Transformative R01 Award Recipients". Retrieved 9 September 2016.
  6. ↑ "Wang receives honorary doctorate from Lund University". Retrieved 9 September 2016.
  7. ↑ "C.E.K. Mees Medal". Retrieved 9 September 2016.
  8. ↑ "Honorary doctorate degree conferred on Prof. Lihong V. Wang".
  9. ↑ "Lihong V. Wang profile".
  10. ↑ Lihong V. Wang; Hsin-i Wu (26 September 2012). Biomedical Optics: Principles and Imaging. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 3–. ISBN 978-0-470-17700-6.
  11. ↑ "Joseph W. Goodman Book Writing Award". 2010. Retrieved 12 September 2016.


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