About Me
I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) advised by Dr. Emad Boctor, Dr. Russell Taylor, and Dr. Webster Stayman. I am also a pre-doctoral research fellow at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) working with Dr. Bradford Wood, Dr. Sheng Xu, and Dr. Peter Pinto. I received Master in Robotics from the Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics (LCSR) at JHU, and Bachelor in Electronic Information Engineering from Zhejiang University (ZJU) with a minor in the Advanced Honor Class for Engineering Education (ACEE) from Chu Kochen Honors College.
Research Interests
I am broadly interested in image formation, image reconstruction, and robotics with applications to two emerging biomedical acoustic imaging modalities - photoacoustic imaging and ultrasound tomography. By prototyping the instrumentation, developing new imaging formation methods, and enhancing the image quality, I employ photoacoustic imaging and ultrasound tomography to discover new quantitative parameters for cancer detection. I am currently focusing on prostate cancer detection.
Honors and Awards
- Early Investigator Award ($300k), Prostate Cancer Research Program, Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs, Department of Defense, 2024
- The Fellows Award for Research Excellence (FARE), National Institutes of Health, 2023
- Graduate Partnerships Program (GPP) fellowship, National Institutes of Health, 2019 - present
- Best Abstract Award, 35th Annual Meeting of Engineering and Urology Society (EUS), 2022
- Best Paper Runner-up, Advances in Simplifying Medical UltraSound (ASMUS) MICCAI Workshop, 2020
- Upsilon Pi Epsilon, International Honor Society in the Computing and Information Disciplines, 2018
- Outstanding Graduates of Zhejiang University, 2016
- National Scholarship, China, 2013