Sihua Yang
Professor
Sihua Yang received his doctoral degree in Optics in 2009 at South China Normal University. Now he is Professor, the Vice dean of College of Biophotonics, the Director of MOE Key laboratory of Laser Life Science, South China Normal University. His main interests in research include Photoacoustic microscopy and clinical applications, multi-modality imaging of photoacoustics and ultrasound, ultrashort microwave-induced thermoacoustic imaging and thermoacoustic therapy. He was awarded the Excellent Youth Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China in 2018, the Technological Ynnovation Young Talents of Guangdong Special Support Program in 2015, and the "863" young scientist special project of the Ministry of Science and Technology. He has published more than 100 journal papers, and authorized 25 China invention patents. The representative papers include Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Physical Review Letter, Small, Theranostics, Optics Letter, Appl Phys Lett, etc. The 3D photoacoustic imager has been recognized as an innovative medical device by the China Food and Drug Administration in 2017, and has been granted a Class II medical device registration certificate in 2020. In the field of photoacoustic imaging technology, he has received the Natural Science Award of the Ministry of Education of China (2012), the Natural Science Award of Guangdong Province (2009), the "Sylvia Sorkin Greenfield Award" of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (2008), and the China optical achievement award (2008).
