Changhuei Yang
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering
MC 136-93, 262 Moore
Phone: (626) 395-8922

Education

PhD, EECS, MIT, 2002
BSc, Mathematics, MIT, 2002
MEng, EECS, MIT, 1997
BSc, Physics, MIT, 1997
BSc, EECS, MIT, 1997

Field of Study

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.

Prof Yang graduated from MIT in 2002 and has steadily moved towards warmer climates thereafter. After short stints at ESPCI (Paris) and Duke University, he settled down at Caltech in Dec 2003. Prof Yang received the NSF CAREER Award and the Coulter Foundation Early Career Phase I and II Awards. Prof Yang was recently included as one of the top 20 scientists under 40 in Discover magazine’s list of Best Brains in Science 2008.