Lihong V. Wang

Lihong V. Wang is the Bren Professor of Medical Engineering and Electrical Engineering at the Andrew and Peggy Cherng Department of Medical Engineering at California Institute of Technology and was formerly the Gene K. Beare Distinguished Professorship of Biomedical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. Wang is known for his contributions to the field of Photoacoustic imaging technologies. Wang was elected as the member of National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in 2018.

Education
Wang received B.S. and M.S. degrees in optics engineering from Huazhong University of Science & Technology respectively in 1984 and 1987. Wang earned a PhD from Rice University in Houston, Texas.

Career
Wang was the recipient of several award, including NIH's FIRST, NSF's CAREER, NIH Director's Pioneer, and NIH Director's Transformative Research awards. Wang also received the OSA C.E.K. Mees Medal "for seminal contributions to photoacoustic tomography and Monte Carlo modeling of photon transport in biological tissues and for leadership in the international biophotonics community". Wang has been conferred upon by an honorary doctorate degree by Lund University located in Sweden for his contributions towards the field of Biomedical Imaging.

Wang has published more than 470 peer-reviewed journal articles including Nature, Science, and PNAS. His book Biomedical Optics: Principles and Imaging was one of the first in the field, and received the Joseph W. Goodman Book Writing Award. Wang was the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Biomedical Optics from 2010 to 2017.

In 2018, Wang was elected as the member of National Academy of Engineering(NAE) for "inventions in photoacoustic microscopy enabling functional, metabolic, and molecular imaging in vivo".

Awards

 * 2018 Michael S. Feld Biophotonics Award.