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Lihong V. Wang, Ph.D.
Biography
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 335 peer-reviewed journal articles
and delivered 357 keynote, plenary, or invited talks. His
Google Scholar h-index and citations
have reached
78 and over 24,500, respectively. 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 34 research grants as the principal investigator with a cumulative
budget of over $41M. 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, NSF’s CAREER, and NIH Director’s Pioneer 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
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