Fen Yang, Ph.D., research assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering of Southern University of Science and Technology. She obtained her Ph.D. from the South China Normal University in 2021 and conducted postdoctoral research in Southern University of Science and Technology from 2022 to 2024. Dr. Yang primarily engaged in the research and development of photoacoustic imaging, optical coherence tomography, and elastography technologies, as well as their application in clinical disease diagnosis. In recent years, Dr. Yang has published over ten academic papers in high-impact SCI journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Optics Letters, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, and Biomedical Optics Express. She has been granted three national invention patents. Dr. Yang has led several projects, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China’s Youth Science Fund project and the Postdoctoral Science Foundation general project. As a key member, she has participated in various projects such as the National Natural Science Foundation of China’s general project, international (regional) cooperation and exchange project, Ministry of Education's National Key R&D Program, Guangdong Provincial Natural Science Foundation project, Shenzhen Technology Innovation Project, Shenzhen-Hong Kong Joint Project, and the major technical challenge Kunpeng team project under Shenzhen's Science and Technology Innovation initiative.

Education

2016.9 -2021.12  Doctor of Optics, College of Biophotonics, South China Normal University, China

2013.9-2016. 6   Master of Optics, College of Biophotonics, South China Normal University, China

2009.9 -2013.6   Bachelor of Physics, School of Physics and Electronic Science, Hubei Normal University, China   

Work Experience

2024.5- Present   Research Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, China

2022.1-2024.1   Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, China

Research Interests

1. Photoacoustic imaging       

2. Optical coherence tomography

3. Multimodal Optical Imaging Methods and Technologies

Representative Publications

1. Fen Yang, Zhongjiang Chen, and Da Xing*, “Single-Cell Photoacoustic Microrheology,” IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2020, 39(6): 1791-1800.

2. Fen Yang, Zhongjiang Chen*, and Da Xing*, “All-optical noncontact phase-domain photoacoustic elastography,” Optics Letters, 2021, 46(19): 5063-5066.

3. Fen Yang, Wenguo Ding, Xinlei Fu, Wen Chen, and Jianbo Tang*, “Photoacoustic elasto-viscography and optical coherence microscopy for multi-parametric ex vivo brain imaging,” Biomedical Optics Express, 2023, 14(11): 5615–5628.

4. Fen Yang, Zhongjiang Chen, Pingping Wang, and Yujiao Shi*, “Photoacoustic mechanical imaging for quantitative elastography and viscography,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 2024, 7(8): 2330-2340.

5. Fen Yang, Wen Chen, and Zhongjiang Chen*, “Photoacoustic micro-viscoelastography for mapping mechano-cellular properties,” Journal of Biophotonics, 2023, doi: 10.1002/jbio.202300262.

6. Wei Chen, Xiangsen Guo, Junxiong Zhou, Yanjun Zhang, Yuerong Bao, Yongchao Wang, Fen Yang, and Jianbo Tang*, “1550 nm optical coherence tomography for in vivo deep brain cerebral blood flow imaging,” Journal of Biophotonics, 2024, doi:10.1002/jbio.20240306.

7. Fen Yang and Sihua Yang*, “Simultaneous Photoacoustic Elasticity and Viscosity Imaging,” 

AF2A.25, Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP), OSA 2016.

8. Pingping Wang, Zhongjiang Chen*, Fen Yang, Sihua Yang, and Da Xing*, “Intravascular tri-modality system: Combined ultrasound, photoacoustic, and elasticity imaging,” Applied Physics Letters, 2018, 113(25): 253701.

9. Dayang Jin, Fen Yang, Zhongjiang Chen, Sihua Yang*, and Da Xing, “Biomechanical and morphological multi-parameter photoacoustic endoscope for identification of early esophageal disease,” Applied Physics Letters, 2017, 111(10): 103703.

10. Qian Wang, Yujiao Shi*, Fen Yang, and Sihua Yang*, “Quantitative photoacoustic elasticity and viscosity imaging for cirrhosis detection,” Applied Physics Letters, 2018, 112(21): 211902.

11. Yujiao Shi*, Fen Yang, and Qian Wang, “Photoacoustic viscoelasticity imaging dedicated to mechanical characterization of biological tissues,” Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, 2017, 10(4): 1730005.

12. Pingping Wang and Fen Yang *, “Advances in new technologies for tissue elastography,” Acta Laser Biology Sinica, 2016, 25(6), 501-508.

Patent

1. Sihua Yang, Fen Yang, Yujiao Shi, and Da Xing, “Photoacoustic quantitative elastography method and device”, 2018.09.11, ZL 201510944323.0

2. Da Xing, Fen Yang, Yujiao Shi, and Sihua Yang, “Photoacoustic quantitative elastic and viscous dual-parameter imaging method and device”, 2018.10.23, ZL 201510944308.6

3. Da Xing, Qian Wang, Sihua Yang, and Fen Yang, “A photoacoustic laparoscopic device and method for simultaneously detecting elasticity and viscosity”, 2019.08.27, ZL 201710165093.7