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Brief CV for Dr. Qianqian Fang

Contact

Title
Associate Professor
Lab
Computational Optics and Translational Imaging (COTI) Lab
Institute
Dept. of Bioengineering, Northeastern University
Address
360 Huntington Ave, ISEC 206, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Office
ISEC 223
Phone
617-373-3829
Email
q.fang (at) neu.edu

Education

Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering - 6/2005

School Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA
Dissertation “Computational methods for microwave medical imaging”
Thesis Committee Profs. Paul M. Meaney, Keith D. Paulsen, William Lotko, Eric L. Miller

Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering - 7/1999

School Univ. of Electronic Sci. & Tech. of China (UESTC), Chengdu, Sichuan 610054, China
Major Electromagnetic Field and Microwave Technology
Diploma Project “Time domain analysis and applications of transient electromagnetic field”
Advisor Prof. Zaiping Nie

Positions

2000-2005
Research Assistant, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, NH
2005-2009
Research Fellow, Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Mass. General Hospital (MGH), MA
2009-2012
Instructor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, MGH Martinos Center, MA
2012-2015
Assistant Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, MA
2015-2020
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Bioengineering, Northeastern University, MA
2015-
Affiliated faculty, Dept. of ECE, Northeastern University, MA
2020-
Associate Professor, Dept. of Bioengineering, Northeastern University, MA

Professional Experience

2004-2007
Member, IEEE, Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (IEEE-EMBS)
2007-
Member, SPIE, International Society for Optical Engineering
2007
Guest Associate Editor, Medical Physics
2008-
Member, OSA, Optical Society of America
2009
Grant Reviewer, NIH
2009
Session co-chair, SPIE Photonics West, Multimodal Biomedical Imaging IV
2010
Reviewer, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
2010-
Associate Editor, International Journal of Microwave Science and Technology
2011
Session co-chair, SPIE Photonics West, Multimodal Biomedical Imaging VI
2011-2012
Reviewer, Romanian National Council for Scientific Research
2012
Organizing committee, session co-chair, IEEE Int. Conf. on Comp. Photography 2013
2013-2018
Conference organizing committee, SPIE Photonics West, Multimodal Biomedical Imaging
2014
Conference organizing committee, 40th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference (NEBEC)
2014
Conference organizing committee, OSA Signal Recovery & Synthesis (SRS) meeting
2015
Grant Reviewer, ZRG1 SBIB-Z* Study Section, National Institutes of Health (NIH)
2017
Grant Reviewer, ZRG1 SBIB-Q* Study Section, National Institutes of Health (NIH)
2018-
Full Conference Chair, SPIE Photonics West, Multimodal Biomedical Imaging Conference
2019-2020
Conference organizing committee, OSA Biophotonics Congress 2020
2019-2020
Conference organizing committee, fNIRS 2020
2019-
Associate Editor, Journal of Biomedical Optics
2020
Grant Reviewer, ZNS1 SRB-S*, National Institutes of Health (NIH)
2020
Grant Reviewer, ZEB1 OSR-E*, National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Publications

1.1. Journal Articles

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

before 2015

1.2. Critically Peer-reviewed Conference Papers

  • Yu L, Gong X, Sun Y, Fang Q, Rubin N and Kaeli D, "Moka: Model-based Concurrent Kernel Analysis", IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization, 2017.
  • Paravecino F, Yu L, Kaeli D, Fang Q*, “Portable performance for Monte Carlo simulations of photon migration in 3D turbid media for single and multiple GPUs”, GTC2016, Paper#S6635, 2016, CA
  • Zhu G, Popovic M, Fang Q, “Microwave-Induced Thermoacoustics: Assisting Microwave Tomography,” 13th Biennial IEEE Conference on Electromagnetic Field Computation, OB2-1, Athens, May 2008
  • Fang Q, Meaney PM, Paulsen KD, “Phase unwrapping in the presence of scattering nulls and applications to microwave imaging,” Proceeding (425) Antennas, Radar, and Wave Propagation, Jul. 2004

1.3. Thesis

1.4. Book chapters

  • Nina-Paravecino F., Yu L, Fang Q, and Kaeli D, “High-performance Monte Carlo Simulations for Photon Migration and Applications in Optical Brain Functional Imaging”, Handbook on Smart Healthcare, Springer (in press)
  • Carp S, Fang Q, “Diffuse optical medical imaging,” in “Pathobiology of Human Disease (PHD),” Elsevier, 2013
  • Venugopal V, Fang Q and Intes X, “Chapter 2. Multimodal Diffuse Optical Imaging”, in "Biophotonics for medical applications", Woodhead Publishing, 2012
  • Fang Q, Carp S, Selb J, Boas D, “Chapter 9. Optical Imaging and X-ray Imaging”, Translational multimodality Optical Imaging, Azar FS, Intes X (Eds.), Artech House, Norwood, 2008
  • Meaney PM, Fang Q, “Chapter 7. Microwave imaging: A model-based approach”, Alternative Breast Imaging-Four Model-Based Approaches, Paulsen KD, Meaney PM, Gilman L(Eds.), Kluwer, 2004.

Patents

US Patent Application No. 16/519,861, filed on July 23, 2019
Morris Vanegas, Qianqian Fang, “Optically monitoring brain activities using 3D-aware head-probe”
US Patent Application No. 16/512,164, filed on July 15, 2019
Fang Q, “Method to localize small and high contrast inclusions in ill-posed model-based imaging modalities”
International patent application in submission (July, 2019)
Paolo Cassano (MGH), Maria Troulis (MGH), and Qianqian Fang, “ (confidential) ”
International Patent 9,265,460 B2 (Feb 23, 2016)
Boas DA, Carp S, Martino M, Fang Q “Optical fiber probe for Use with x-ray mammography”
Patent Application PCT/US14/44125 filed on Oct 17, 2014
Cleveland, R, Fang Q, Hibberd PL, Wang, LT, Zimmermann B, Zwerdling R, “High-resolution thermal imaging systems and methods”
U.S. Provisional Patent Application, No. 61/858,777, filed on Aug. 5, 2013
Fang Q, “Mobile-device Based Pulse Oximeter”
U.S. Provisional Patent Application, filed on Apr. 18, 2013
Hofmann M, Fang Q “Three-Dimensional Shape Acquisition With A Camera And A Deformable Rail”
International Patent Application, No. PCT/US2013/37834, filed on April 23, 2013
Fang Q, “Method and system for non-invasive quantification of biological sample physiology using a series of images”
U.S. Provisional Patent Application, No. 61/637,641, filed on April 24, 2012
Fang Q, “Functional near-infrared brain imaging assisted by a low-cost mobile phone camera”
US Patent 7825667, (Nov.2,2010)
Fang Q, Meaney PM, Paulsen KD, “Microwave imaging system and processes, and associated software products”

Grants

Active grants

2R01-GM114365 (renewal) Fang (PI) 08/01/20 – 07/31/24
NIH/NIGMS 2 academic months and 1.2 summer month/year $380,800
GPU-Accelerated Monte Carlo photon transport simulation platform
By further extending, solidifying and disseminating our widely distributed GPU-accelerated Monte Carlo light transport modeling platform, we aim to make a broad impact and set a new standard in our community for developing innovative biophotonics techniques, exploring complex biological systems, facilitating reproducible research and promoting efficient collaboration among the research community.
Role: PI

R01-EB026998 Fang(PI) 09/21/18 – 07/31/21
NIH/NINDS/NIBIB 2 academic months 1.0 summer month/year $301,018
Next-generation optical brain functional imaging platform
The proposed study aims to develop the next generation advanced optical brain imaging platform (AOBI), featuring a wireless, modular, fiberless and wearable functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) head-gear design, highly-scalable 3D-aware flexible optical modules, GPU-accelerated tomographic image reconstructions.
Role: PI

R01- CA204443 Fang (PI) 05/01/16 – 04/30/21
NIH/NCI 1.0 summer month/year $257,715
A versatile high-performance optical mammography co-imager
The proposed study aims to develop a versatile high-performance optical mammography co-imager (OMCI) that can bring functional breast tumor diagnosis to any existing (and future) 2D or 3D x-ray digital mammography system worldwide.
Role: PI

Completed grants

R01-GM114365 Fang (PI) 05/01/15 – 04/30/20
NIH/NIGMS 2 academic months and 1.0 summer month/year $380,800
GPU-Accelerated Monte Carlo photon transport simulation platform
By further extending, solidifying and disseminating our widely distributed GPU-accelerated Monte Carlo light transport modeling platform, we aim to make a broad impact and set a new standard in our community for developing innovative biophotonics techniques, exploring complex biological systems, facilitating reproducible research and promoting efficient collaboration among the research community.
Role: PI

AMD Kaeli/Fang (PI) 06/01/19 – 05/31/20
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) 0.2 summer month/year $90,000
Optimized Photon Transport Modeling for ROCm platform
One of the largest CPU/GPU makers, AMD, funds us to specifically optimize our widely disseated Monte Carlo eXtreme (MCX) photon transport simulation platform to run efficiently on their ROCm platform.
Role: Co-PI

R01-CA187595 Carp (PI) 04/01/15 – 03/31/20
NIH/NCI
Dynamic optical imaging biomarkers of tumor response to therapy
The goal of this study is to validate that the variation in tissue total hemoglobin concentration (HbT) and hemoglobin oxygen saturation (SO2) following a change in breast compression are prognostic and are predictive biomarkers for breast cancer neoadjuvant chemotherapy monitoring.
Role: Co-Investigator

AID-OAA-F-15-00009 Fang (PI) 04/01/15 – 03/31/17
USAID (US Agency for International Development) Saving Lives at Birth Award
Non-contact Mobile Oximeter for Rapid Birth Asphyxia and Childhood Pneumonia Assessment
We aim to develop a non-invasive infrared-based oximeter attachment for a mobile phone to enable noncontact and rapid assessment of a newborn and mother’s blood oxygen level and respiratory rate (RR) during or after the childbirth.
Role: PI
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