FIP Seminar: Translating Photoacoustic Imaging into (Pre)Clinical Impacts

Biography: Junjie Yao is currently Assistant Professor at the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University, and a faculty member of Duke Center for In Vivo Microscopy, Duke Cancer Institute, Duke Institute of Brain Sciences, and Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics. Dr. Yao received his B.E. (2006) and M.E. (2008) degrees in Biomedical Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, and his Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering at Washington University (2013), St. Louis. He serves on the editorial board in Scientific Reports, Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery, and Near-infrared and Laser Engineering. Dr. Yao's research interest is in photoacoustic tomography (PAT) technologies in life sciences, especially in functional brain imaging, interventional imaging guidance, and early cancer detection.