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Chen, Yu

Yu Chen
Assistant Professor
A. James Clark School of Engineering
2218 Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, University of Maryland, College Park
Email: 
yuchen@umd.edu
Phone: 
301-405-3439
Fax: 
301-314-9953
Website

Research Interests 

  • Biomedical optical imaging
  • Optical coherence tomography (OCT)
  • Optical coherence microscopy (OCM)
  • Diffuse optical spectroscopy and imaging
  • Molecular imaging
  • Early cancer diagnosis
  • Neuroimaging

Education 

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2003

Honors and Awards 

  • 2006: Outstanding Instrumentation Research Paper of 2005 (Biomedical Instrumentation and Technology)
  • 2004–2006: Postdoctoral Fellowship (Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation)
  • 2003: Finalist – Young Investigator Competition (Assn for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation and Whitaker Foundation)
  • 2003: Solomon R. Pollack Award for Excellence in Graduate Bioengineering  Research (University of Pennsylvania)
  • 2002: Poster Award (28th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society)
  • 2000: Student Fellowship (Education Foundation, Society of Nuclear Medicine)
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