Lihong V. Wang

Lihong V. Wang (Chinese: 汪立宏) is 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. Wang 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] Wang was elected as the member of National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in 2018.

The native form of this personal name is Wang Lihong. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
Lihong V. Wang
Alma materHuazhong University of Science & Technology B.S.& M.S; Rice University PhD
Known forphotoacoustic imaging
Scientific career
FieldsOptical engineering
InstitutionsWashington University in St. Louis; California Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisorsRobert Curl; Richard Smalley; Frank Tittel

Education

Wang received B.S. and M.S. degrees in optics engineering from Huazhong University of Science & Technology respectively in 1984 and 1987. Wang earned a PhD from Rice University in Houston, Texas.[3]

Career

Wang's 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.[4] Wang was the recipient of several award, including NIH's FIRST, NSF's CAREER, NIH Director's Pioneer,[5] and NIH Director's Transformative Research awards.[6] Wang 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]

Wang has received more than 37 research grants as principal investigator with an estimated cumulative budget of more than $47M.[9] Wang 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] Wang was the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Biomedical Optics from 2010-2017.

In 2018, Wang was elected as the member of National Academy of Engineering(NAE) for "inventions in photoacoustic microscopy enabling functional, metabolic, and molecular imaging in vivo".[12]

Awards
  • 2018 Michael S. Feld Biophotonics Award. [13]

See also

References
  1. X. Wang; et al. (2003). "Non-invasive laser-induced photoacoustic tomography for structural and functional imaging of the brain in vivo" (PDF). Nature Biotechnology. 21 (7): 803–806. doi:10.1038/nbt839. PMID 12808463. S2CID 2961096.
  2. "Single-shot real-time video recording of a photonic Mach cone induced by a scattered light pulse".
  3. "Caltech Optical Imaging Laboratory Director - Lihong V. Wang Biography". coilab.caltech.edu. Retrieved November 28, 2018.
  4. "Lihong V. Wang profile".
  5. "2012 Pioneer Award Recipients". Retrieved 9 September 2016.
  6. "2013 Transformative R01 Award Recipients". 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.
  12. "National Academy of Engineering Elects 83 Members and 16 Foreign Members".
  13. "The Optical Society Presents the 2018 Michael S. Field Biophotonics Award". osa.org. February 28, 2018. Retrieved November 28, 2018.
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