Yun-Sheng Chen

Yun-Sheng Chen
Yun-Sheng Chen
  • Assistant Professor
(217) 300-2801
4255 Beckman Institute

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Education

  • University of Texas at Austin, TX; PhD in ECE, 2012
  • University of Texas at Austin, TX; Certification in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 2012

Academic Positions

  • Assistant Professor (2021-Present), ECE, Bioengineering (by courtesy), UIUC, IL

Research Areas

  • Biomedical imaging
  • Bionanotechnology
  • Biophotonics angiogenesis
  • Dynamic imaging
  • Early cancer detection
  • Image-guided drug delivery
  • Lasers in medicine and biology
  • Medical imaging systems - particularly for applications in breast cancer and vascular and kidney diseases
  • Nanomedicine
  • Nanotechnology
  • Optical diagnostics for cancer
  • Ultrasound
  • Vascular remodeling

Research Topics

Patents

Honors

  • SPIE Senior Member (2026)
  • NSF CAREER Award (2025)
  • Dean's Award for Excellence in Research for Assistant Professor (2025)
  • Dean's Award for Innovation Impact for Assistant Professor (2024)
  • Stephen I Katz Early Stage Investigator Research Project Grant (2023)
  • Innovative Science Accelerator Program (ISAC) Award (2023 )
  • Google Faculty Research Award (2020 )

Recent Courses Taught

  • ECE 329 - Fields and Waves I
  • ECE 398 AS - Progm Mthds - Machine Learning
  • ECE 467 (BIOE 467) - Biophotonics
  • ECE 564 - Modern Light Microscopy
  • ECE 598 YS - Super-Res Biomed Imaging