Prof. Huabei Jiang

Huabei Jiang, Professor and Director

USF Center for Advanced Biomedical Imaging

University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA

Speech Title: Advanced Photoacoustic Tomography 

Abstract

In this keynote talk, I will describe several new concepts and strategies to realize advanced photoacoustic tomography (PAT) for biomedical imaging. These new ideas will allow us to photoacoustically visualize tissue conductivity, cellular scattering property and molecular contrast agent in superb resolution, hence offering several advanced variations of  PAT. I will illustrate these new concepts and strategies using simulated and experimental data.

Biography

Dr. Huabei Jiang started his career as an assistant professor at Clemson University (Clemson, South Carolina, USA)in 1997 and became an associate professor and a professor at Clemson University in 2001 and 2003, respectively. He moved to University of Florida (Gainesville, Florida, USA)in 2005 and became the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Endowed Chair there in 2008. Huabei joined the University of South Florida (USF) (Tampa, Florida, USA) in 2017 as a Professor and Director of the USF Center for Advanced Biomedical Imaging. Huabei has published nearly 500 peer-reviewed scientific articles and patents. He is also the author of four books on diffuse optical, photoacoustic, thermoacoustic, and fluorescence molecular imaging, respectively. He has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) since 1998 and has won numerous national and international awards. Huabei is a Fellow of OSA/OPTICA, SPIE, and AIMBE. Outside of his research/teaching, Huabei enjoys practicing Chinese Calligraphy and paintings (ink/color pencil, watercolor, pastel, acrylic, and oil). He had a one-person exhibition of his artworks in July 2019 in Chengdu, China, and has won multiple awards in several international art competitions since 2021.