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Lihong V. Wang, Ph.D.
URL:
HTTP://OILAB.SEAS.WUSTL.EDU
Lihong
Wang earned his Ph.D. degree at Rice University, Houston, Texas under the
tutelage of Robert Curl, Richard Smalley, and Frank Tittel. He currently
holds the Gene K. Beare Distinguished Professorship of Biomedical
Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. His book entitled
“Biomedical Optics: Principles and Imaging,” one of the first textbooks in
the field, won the 2010 Joseph W. Goodman Book Writing Award. He also
coauthored a book on polarization and edited the first book on photoacoustic
tomography. Professor Wang has published over 285 peer-reviewed journal
articles with an h-index of 59 (>12,000 citations) and delivered more than
310 keynote, plenary, or invited talks. His laboratory invented or
discovered functional photoacoustic tomography, 3D photoacoustic microscopy
(PAM), the photoacoustic Doppler effect, photoacoustic reporter gene
imaging, focused scanning microwave-induced thermoacoustic tomography, the
universal photoacoustic or thermoacoustic reconstruction algorithm,
frequency-swept ultrasound-modulated optical tomography, time-reversed
ultrasonically encoded (TRUE) optical focusing, sonoluminescence tomography,
Mueller-matrix optical coherence tomography, optical coherence computed
tomography, and oblique-incidence reflectometry. In particular, PAM broke
through the long-standing diffusion limit to the penetration of conventional
optical microscopy and reached super-depths for noninvasive biochemical,
functional, and molecular imaging in living tissue at high resolution. His
Monte Carlo model of photon transport in scattering media is used worldwide.
He has received 31 research grants as the principal investigator with a
cumulative budget of over $34M. Professor Wang is a Fellow of the AIMBE
(American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering), OSA (Optical
Society of America), IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers), and SPIE (Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers).
He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Biomedical Optics. He chairs the
annual conference on Photons plus Ultrasound, and chaired the 2010 Gordon
Conference on Lasers in Medicine and Biology and the 2010 OSA Topical
Meeting on Biomedical Optics. He is a chartered member on an NIH Study
Section. Wang serves as the founding chairs of the scientific advisory
boards for two companies commercializing his inventions. He received NIH’s
FIRST and NSF’s CAREER awards. He was awarded OSA’s C.E.K. Mees Medal and
IEEE’s Technical Achievement Award for “seminal contributions to
photoacoustic tomography and Monte Carlo modeling of photon transport in
biological tissues and for leadership in the international biophotonics
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