Yun-Sheng Chen
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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
- Bio-Micro and Nanotechnology
- Bioimaging at Multi-Scale
- Electronics, Plasmonics, and Photonics
- Medical imaging
- Nanomedicine and bio-nanotechnology
Patents
- S. Emelianov, J. Su, B. Wang, A. Karpiouk, Y.-S. Chen, W. Frey, R. Bouchard, "Combined ultrasound and photoacoustic imaging of metal objects", Patent No.: US8839672B2 (2012).
- S. Emelianov, B. Wang, J. Shah, K. Sokolov, J. Su, Y.-S. Chen, W. Frey, "Temperature dependent photoacoustic imaging", Patent No.: US20120125107A1 (2012).
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