Dr. Jinna Chen is a research associate professor in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at the Southern University of Science and Technology, a high-level overseas talent in Shenzhen, and a senior member of IEEE. She is also a member of the Biomedical Photonics Professional Committee of the Chinese Optical Society, the Tumor Rhythm Professional Committee of the Chinese Anti-Cancer Society, and the Young Editorial Board of PhotoniX Life. Engaged in the interdisciplinary research of precision, intelligence, and individualized diagnosis and treatment technology of critical illness, mainly in early screening of critical illness, submucosal tumor detection, surgical field tissue identification, and precision medicine. She has been authorized six Chinese invention patents and translated one scientific and technological achievement. She has published 52 SCI papers with an H-Index of 16 and 1096 citations. Her representative work has been published in journals such as The BMJ, Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, Light: Science & Applications (ESI Highly Cited Paper), Analytical Chemistry, and ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. She has served as the chair of the IEEE Optoelectronics Global Conference on Biomedical Photonics four times. She won the 2023 Photonics Global Conference (PGC) Young Scientist Award. She was the champion of the 3rd Entrepreneurship Planning Competition of Sun Yat-sen University's "Bauhinia Valley Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Counseling Center" in 2018.

Educations

2011-2015  Ph.D  The University of Hong Kong

2008-2011  M.S   Sun Yat-sen University

2004-2008  B.S.   South China University of Technology

Research Experiences

2023-Now  SUSTech, EEE, Research Associate Professor

2021-2023  SUSTech, EEE, Research Assistant Professor

2020-2020  SUSTech, EEE, Senior Research Fellow

2015-2017  CUHK, Prince of Wales Hospital, Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests

* Interdisciplinary research of precision, intelligence, and individualized diagnosis and treatment technology of critical illness

* Early screening of critical illness: Body fluid Raman spectroscopy chip, equipment and diagnostic algorithm

* Submucosal tumor detection: High-resolution optical coherence tomography and functional ultrasound multi-mode endoscopic system

* Surgical tissue identification: Raman hyperspectral imaging equipment and intelligent algorithm for tumor boundary tissue identification

* Precision medicine: Quantitative technology of blood drug concentration and multimodal efficacy prediction algorithm

Publications

1. Minghui Niu; Chengwei Shan; Chenlong Xue; Xiaowei Xu; Aoyan Zhang; Yihong Xiao; Junyu Wei; Defeng Zou; Gina Jinna Chen*; Aung Ko Ko Kyaw*; Perry Ping Shum*; High-Stability Printable Perovskite SERS Substrates in an Aqueous Environment via Plasmon-Induced Resonance Energy Transfer, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2025, 17(0): 13538-13551.

2. Jiaqi Hu#; Chenlong Xue#; Ken Xiaokeng Chi#; Junyu Wei; Zhicheng Su; Qiuyue Chen; Ziyu Ou; Shuxin Chen; Zhe Huang; Yilin Xu; Haoyun Wei; Yanjun Liu; Perry Ping Shum*; Gina Jinna Chen*; Raman Spectral Feature Enhancement Framework for Complex Multiclassification Tasks, Analytical Chemistry, 2025, 97: 130-139.

3. Liu, Guo-Ying#; Ye, Yan-Fang#; Jiang, Yao-Fei#; Chen, Gina Jinna#; Xia, Wei-Xiong#; Huang, Yi-Sheng#; Gao, Tian-Sheng#; Liu, Yi-Min; Hou, Ya-Ting; Li, Jian-Fei; Liu, Jia-Hao; Lu, Nian; Chen, Chang-Long; Ke, Liang-Ru; Liang, Hu; Bei, Wei-Xin; Li, Wang-Zhong; Dong, Shu-Hui; Liu, Qin; Xie, Changqing; Yao, He-Rui; Xiang, Yan-Qun*; Nab-paclitaxel, cisplatin, and capecitabine versus cisplatin and gemcitabine as first line chemotherapy in patients with recurrent or metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma: randomised phase 3 clinical trial, The BMJ-British Medical Journal, 2024, 385: e077890-10.

4. Chen, Junfan#; Hu, Jiaqi#; Xue, Chenlong#; Zhang, Qian; Li, Jingyan; Wang, Ziyue; Lv, Jinqian; Zhang, Aoyan; Dang, Hong; Lu, Dan; Zou, Defeng; Cong, Longqing; Li, Yuchao; Chen, Gina Jinna*; Shum, Perry Ping*; Combined Mutual Learning Net for Raman Spectral Microbial Strain Identification, Analytical Chemistry, 2024, 96(15): 5824-5831.

5. Jiaqi Hu#; Gina Jinna Chen#*; Chenlong Xue; Pei Liang; Yanqun Xiang; Chuanlun Zhang; XiaokengChi; Guoying Liu; Yanfang Ye; DongyuCui; DeZhang; Xiaojunyu; Hong Dang; Wen Zhang; Junfan Chen; Quan Tang; Penglai Guo; Ho-Pui Ho; Yuchao Li; Longqing Cong; Perry Ping Shum*; RSPSSL A novel high-fidelity Raman spectral preprocessing scheme to enhance biomedical applications and chemical resolution visualization, Light: Science & Applications, 2024, 13(52): 1-21.

6. Wei Zhang#; Zijian Zhang#; Yun Xiang#; Dong-Dong Gu#; Jinna Chen#; Yifan Chen; Shixian Zhai; Yong Liu; Tao Jiang; Chong Liu; Bin He; Min Yan; Zifeng Wang; Jie Xu; Yu-Lu Cao; Bing Deng; Deshun Zeng; Jie Lei; Junxiao Zhuo; Xinxing Lei; Zijie Long; Bilian Jin; Tongsheng Chen; Dong Li; Yidong Shen; Junjie Hu*; Song Gao*; Quentin Liu*; Aurora kinase A-mediated phosphorylation triggers structural alteration of Rab1A to enhance ER complexity during mitosis, Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, 2024, 31: 219-231.