Bioengineering professor honored for scientific contributions
The International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) has named University of Texas at Arlington researcher Baohong Yuan a fellow. SPIE recognized Yuan, a professor in the Bioengineering Department, for outstanding contributions to developing high-resolution fluorescence imaging technologies in deep tissue.
“It is a great honor to be recognized by the society,” Yuan said. “To achieve high-resolution fluorescence imaging in deep tissue, many challenges have to be addressed. I appreciate my students, postdoctoral researchers, collaborators and colleagues for their work and support to address these challenges.”
His research focuses on the development of innovative cancer imaging and treatment technologies involved in optical and ultrasound methods.
Yuan joins four current College of Engineering faculty members who are SPIE fellows: James Coleman, Robert Magnusson, Michael Vasilyev and Weidong Zhou, all in the Electrical Engineering Department.
The honor is well-deserved and shows the quality of Yuan’s research, said Michael Cho, chair of the Bioengineering Department.
“Dr. Yuan’s research will no doubt contribute to the arsenal of clinical imaging tools to detect tumors, especially at their early stage,” Cho said.
Yuan joined UTA’s Bioengineering Department in 2010. He has published more than 70 peer-reviewed journal papers, presented numerous conference and seminar invited talks and received and filed 10 U.S. and international patents. He earned a National Science Foundation CAREER award and has also received grants from the National Institutes of Health, Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas and more.
In addition to SPIE, Yuan is a senior member of the Optical Society of America and a member of the Biomedical Engineering Society, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the International Ocular Inflammation Society and the World Molecular Imaging Society.
SPIE brings engineers, scientists, students and business professionals together to advance light-based science and technology. Since its inception in 1955, more than 1,600 members have become fellows, including 58 members who earned the honor this year.
- Written by Jeremy Agor, College of Engineering