Changhuei
Yang
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and
Bioengineering
B.Sc., MIT, 1997 (Physics)
B.Sc., MIT, 1997 (Electrical Engineering)
B.Sc., MIT, 2002 (Mathematics)
M.Eng., MIT, 1997 (Electrical Engineering)
Ph.D., MIT, 2002 (Electrical Engineering)
1200
East California Boulevard, MS 136-93
Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
(626) 395-8922 (office)
chyang@caltech.edu
Professor Yang's research area is biophotonics — the imaging and extraction of information from biological targets through the use of light. His research efforts can be categorized into two major groups – Optofluidics for biosensing and interferometry based imaging. Optofluidics - Optofluidics is a nascent technology field that combines optics and microfluidics. Prof. Yang's group is working on developing a microscope-on-a-chip system that is tiny, high resolution and cheap. This optofluidic microscope has the potential of dramatically improving third world healthcare and simplifying bioscience research. Prof Yang serves as the associate director of the DARPA funded Center for Optofluidic Integration at Caltech. Interferometry based imaging - Prof Yang's group has been developing novel imaging schemes based on interferometry that enable high sensitivity cell dynamic studies and fast microscopy imaging. In addition, his group has been developing a novel narrow bore imaging needle scope that can enable clinicians to 'see' ahead of a needle tip during surgical procedures.
Professor Yang graduated from MIT in 2002 and has steadily moved towards warmer climate thereafter. After short stints at ESPCI (Paris) and Duke University , he settled down in Caltech in Dec 2003. Professor Yang recently received the NSF CAREER award and the Coulter Foundation Early Career Award.
