EDUCATION

PhD candidate in Mechanical Engineering
Boston University
Expected graduation date (Sep. 2011)

M.S. in Biomedical Engineering
Dept. of Electronic Science and Engineering, Nanjing University
Thesis: "Study of nonlinear dynamics of ultrasound contrast agent microbubbles"

RESERACH
EXPERIENCE

Research Assistant, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Boston University

• Microfluidic production of monodisperse ultrasound contrast agents used to enhance the sensitivity of ultrasound imaging
  Designed a microfluidic flow-focusing system, fabricated the devices using standard lithography, and successfully produced size-controllable lipid-coded microbubbles with size 2-12 um.

• Subharmonic ultrasound imaging using lipid-coated microbubbles
  Designed and implemented a flow-jet system for measuring the backscatters from signal microbubbles, while subharmonic was extracted and evaluated comparing with fundamental and second harmonic.

• Molecular imaging and drug delivery (in vitro)
  Designed and implemented a novel imaging approach to image bound contrast agents with specific size on a hydrogel surface, thus improving the sensitivity of molecular imaging.

Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Boston University

• Led group discussion and laboratory sections, prepared experiments, and graded assignments
  Courses: Structural Mechanics, Engineering Mechanics II, and Fluid Mechanics II

• Chirp-coded (Broadband) excitation contrast imaging
  Implemented and evaluated chirp-coded excitation technique in ultrasound contrast imaging. Successfully improved imaging quality with Signal-to-Noise ratio increasing by 15-22 dB.

Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Boston University, 2008-2009
Samsung Scholarship, Nanjing University (top 1 of 80 students), 2006
People's Scholarship, Nanjing University (top 5%), 2000-2003

COMPUTER
SKILLS

Languasges: Matlab/Simulink, Labview, C, Mathematics, Assemble Language, Fortran
Technical Drawing: AutoCAD, SolidWorks, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Microsoft Visio