2026 Kam Family Lecture

The Department of Biomedical Engineering is hosting the annual Kam Family Lecture on Monday, November 2 featuring Lihong V. Wang, Ph.D., Bren Professor of Medical Engineering and Electrical Engineering and Andrew and Peggy Cherng Medical Engineering Leadership Chair at the California Institute of Technology. Dr. Wang's presentation will discuss the development of cutting-edge imaging technologies, including photoacoustic tomography and ultrafast photography, alongside advances in quantum imaging and atomic physics, and their role in visualizing biological, physical, and quantum phenomena with unprecedented depth, speed, and resolution.

About Dr. Wang
Lihong Wang, Ph.D. is Bren Professor of Medical and Electrical Engineering and Peggy Cherng Medical Engineering Leadership Chair at California Institute of Technology. His book titled “Biomedical Optics” won the Goodman Book Writing Award. He has published 630 peer-reviewed journal articles and delivered 650 keynote/plenary/invited talks. His Google Scholar h-index and citations have reached 171 and 126K, and he is 1 most cited scientist in optics and 4 in nuclear medicine and medical imaging according to Stanford/Elsevier. His laboratory was the first to report functional photoacoustic tomography, 3D photoacoustic microscopy, and CUP (world’s fastest camera). He received the NIH Director’s Pioneer, NIH Director’s Transformative Research, and NIH/NCI Outstanding Investigator awards. He also received the Optica Mees Medal, Optica Feld Award, IEEE Technical Achievement Award, IEEE Biomedical Engineering Award, SPIE Chance Award, and IPPA Senior Prize. He is a Fellow of AAAS, AIMBE, Electromagnetics Academy, IAMBE, IEEE, NAI, Optica, and SPIE. An honorary doctorate was conferred on him by Lund University, Sweden. He was inducted into both National Academies of Engineering and Medicine.