Dr. Qifa Zhou

Biography

Qifa Zhou received his Ph.D. in Electronic Materials and Engineering from Xi'an Jiaotong University, China in 1993. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology at the USC Keck School of Medicine and the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Southern California. He is a leading principal investigator at the NIH Resource Center for Medical Transducer Technology. Dr. Zhou has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles in journals such as Nature Medicine, Scientific Reports, and Progress in Materials Science. He is a fellow of the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). He serves on the Technical Program Committee for the IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium and is an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control. Dr. Zhou has developed high-frequency ultrasound composite single crystal transducer arrays and focuses on biomedical imaging applications, specifically in areas such as photoacoustic imaging and intravascular imaging. He is actively exploring ultrasound-mediated therapeutic technologies and has received numerous awards, including the 2023 Paper Award at the International Conference on Ultrasound Engineering in Biomedical Applications and the 2019 National Academy of Inventors Senior Member designation.

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