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Brief CV for Dr. Qianqian Fang
- 1. Contact
- 2. Education
- 3. Positions
- 4. Professional Services
- 5. Publications
- 6. Grants
- 6.1. Active grants
- 6.2. Completed grants
1. 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
- q.fang (at) neu.edu
2. 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 |
3. 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
4. Professional Services
- 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)
5. Publications
Publications Database
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”
6. Grants
6.1. 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 | ||
6.2. 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 | ||