Yang Zhang, Ph.D.

Yang Zhang is currently an Assistant Professor at the School of Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University. Over the past decade, he has conducted research in medical imaging during his Master’s studies at the School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University (2012–2015), Ph.D. studies at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong (2015–2019), and postdoctoral training at the Department of Medical Engineering, California Institute of Technology (2019–2025).

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Since February 2025, he has been a full-time faculty member at Tsinghua University, where he is establishing a multidisciplinary research team focused on next-generation human brain and body medical imaging technologies, integrating electronics, ultrasound, optics, and computational approaches. In recent years, he has conducted extensive and in-depth research in emerging fields such as photoacoustic imaging, brain and body imaging, and multimodal imaging systems.

 

His work has been published in leading journals including Nature Biomedical Engineering, Advanced Science, and IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, and he has filed multiple U.S. invention patents. His research on photoacoustic vector imaging was recognized with the Best Paper Award at SPIE Photonics West.