Brief Biography

Meng-Lin Li received his B.S. and Ph. D. (biomedical engineering group) degrees in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University, Taiwan, in 1999 and 2004, respectively. His Ph. D. work included the investigation of novel ultrasonic adaptive imaging and vector flow estimation methods, and the development of a high frequency ultrasonic small animal imaging system. From August, 2004, he joined the Optical Imaging Laboratory in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Texas A&M University, as a Postdoctoral Research Associate. In the Optical Imaging Laboratory, his work focused on the development of spectroscopic photoacoustic tomography and microscopy for functional and molecular imaging. In August 2006, he went back to Taiwan and joined the Department of Electrical Engineering in National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, where he is currently an Associate Professor. His current research interests include biomedical photoacoustic imaging, ultrasonic imaging and signal processing.

Education

• Post-Doctoral Training (Aug., 2004 - Jul., 2006), Optical Imaging Laboratory (Leading Laboratory in Ultrasound-Mediated Optical Imaging), Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. (Mentor: Prof. Lihong V. Wang)
• Ph.D. (Sept., 2000 - Jan., 2004), Ultrasonic Imaging Laboratory, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. (Adviser: Prof. Pai-Chi Li, Dissertation: Coherence-Factor-Based Adaptive Ultrasound Imaging)
• M.S. program (Sept., 1999 - Aug., 2000), Ultrasonic Imaging Laboratory, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. (Adviser: Prof. Pai-Chi Li, Approved for entrance into Ph.D. program directly in 2000)
• B.S. (Sept., 1995 - July, 1999), Dept. of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Area of Specialization

Biomedical Optics
photoacoustic tomography and microscopy: molecular imaging, functional imaging (blood oxygen saturation), and nanoparticle-assisted tumor imaging

Biomedical Ultrasonic Imaging and Signal Processing
array beamformation, ultrasonic microscopy, synthetic aperture focusing, flow estimation

Work Experience

Aug., 2011 - present
Associate Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Aug., 2006 - Jul., 2011
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Aug., 2004 - Jul., 2006
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Optical Imaging Lab, Biomedical Engineering, Texas A&M University, TX, USA
Mar., 2004 - Jul., 2004
Postdoctoral Researcher, Ultrasonic Imaging Lab, Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Awards and Honors

Seno Medical Best Paper Award, Photons Plus Ultrasound: Imaging and Sensing 2014 (Part of SPIE Photonics West 2014), San Francisco, California, USA. Topic: Optical resolution photoacoustic microscopy using a Blu-ray DVD pickup head.
The First Prize,  The 10th National Innovation Award - Student Research Contest, 2013. Topic: DVD Pickup Head Based Photoacoustic Microscope for Label-free 3D Hematologic Examination. (advised P.-H. Wang)
Best Poster Award, Symposium of Annual Conference of the Biomedical Engineering Society of ROC, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 2013. Topic: Application of Coherent Plane-Wave Compounding to Coherence Factor Ultrasound Imaging. (advised C.-L. Hu)
Paper Award, Symposium of Annual Conference of the Biomedical Engineering Society of ROC, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 2013. Topic: Pulsed Magnetomotive Ultrasound with Ultrafast Plane Wave Imaging. (advised P.-H. Ting)
Outstanding Young Electrical Engineer Award, Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering, November, 2013.
Best Paper Award, Symposium of Annual Conference of the Biomedical Engineering Society of ROC, Taoyuan, Taiwan, 2012. Topic: Improved ultrasound temperature imaging with two-stage cross-correlation. (advised S.-M. Huang)
Best Poster Award, Symposium of Annual Conference of the Biomedical Engineering Society of ROC, Taoyuan, Taiwan, 2012. Topic: Photoacoustic detection of calcifications with molecular imaging. (advised T.-C. Hsiao)
Poster Award, Symposium of Annual Conference of the Biomedical Engineering Society of ROC, Taoyuan, Taiwan, 2012. Topic: Filter-based coherent plane-wave compounding for high frame rate ultrasonography. (advised C.-L. Hu)
Poster Award, Symposium of Annual Conference of the Biomedical Engineering Society of ROC, Taoyuan, Taiwan, 2012. Topic: Ultrasound time-intensity curve analysis for monitoring focused-ultrasound induced blood-brain barrier disruption. (advised N.-Y. Kuo)
Dr. Wu Da-You Memorial Award, National Science Council, Taiwan, August, 2012.
Young Faculty Research Award, National Tsing Hua University, November, 2011.
The 1st Place of Young Investigator's Awards, the 5th World Congress on Bioengineering, Tainan, Taiwan, 2011. Topic: In vivo cerebral hemodynamic imaging on single vessels using transcranial functional photoacoustic microscopy. (co-advised L.-D. Liao)
Paper Award, Symposium of Annual Conference of the Biomedical Engineering Society of ROC, Tainan, Taiwan, 2011. Topic: Combination of ultrasonic temperature and Nakagami imaging for monitoring of focused ultrasound thermal therapy. (advised S.-M. Huang)
Poster Award, Symposium of Annual Conference of the Biomedical Engineering Society of ROC, Tainan, Taiwan, 2011. Topic: Investigation of factors affecting quantitative photoacoustic temperature imaging. (advised C.-C. Li)
Young Faculty Research Award, College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University, June, 2011.
Best Paper Award, Symposium of Annual Conference of the Biomedical Engineering Society of ROC, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 2010. Topic: Transcranial functional photoacoustic microscopy of cerebral hemodynamic changes in single vessels. (co-advised L.-D. Liao)
Best Poster Award, Symposium of Annual Conference of the Biomedical Engineering Society of ROC, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 2010. Topic: Adaptive photoacustic imaging based on MVDR and coherence weighting. (advised I.-C. Cheng)
Paper Award, Symposium of Annual Conference of the Biomedical Engineering Society of ROC, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 2010. Topic: Gold-nanorod based ultrasound contrast enhanced imaging technique for monitoring focused-ultrasound induced blood-brain-barrier opening. (advised P.-H. Wang)
Paper Award, Symposium of Annual Conference of the Biomedical Engineering Society of ROC, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 2010. Topic: Photoacoustic imaging of breast micro-calcification: feasibility study on chicken breast phantoms. (advised T.-C. Hsiao)
The Second Prize, The 7th National Innovation Award - Student Research Contest, 2010. Topic: Visualization of breast microcalcifications using photoacoustic imaging. (advised T.-C. Hsiao, Y.-Y. Cheng, C.-T. Fan, and P.-H. Wang)
Poster Award, Symposium of Annual Conference of the Biomedical Engineering Society of ROC, Taipei, Taiwan, 2009. Topic: Monitoring focused-ultrasound induced blood-brain-barrier opening in a rat model by photoacoustic micro-imaging. (advised P.-H. Wang)
Best Paper Award, CIEE paper contest, Taiwan, 2009. Thesis: High frequency photoacoustic imaging system and its applications in small animal imaging (advised P.-H. Wang)
Poster Award, Symposium of Annual Conference of the Biomedical Engineering Society of ROC, Taichung, Taiwan, 2007. Topic: Microcirculation assessment of Achilles Tendons in small animals with high frequency ultrasound. (co-advised J.-J. Chen)
Poster Award, Symposium of Annual Conference of the Biomedical Engineering Society of ROC, Taipei, Taiwan, 2006. Topic: In vivo photoacoustic microscopy of gold nanoshell passive targeting to solid tumors.
The 2nd Place of Oral Presentation Competition, GSA CVM Research Symposium award, Texas A&M University, 2006 (co-author)
Pan Wen-Yuan Foundation Scholarship, 2001
Student Paper Award, Poster Paper Competition, Symposium of Annual Conference of the Biomedical Engineering Society of ROC, Taipei, Taiwan, 2001. Topic: Filter based synthetic two way focusing for ultrasonic imaging.
Merit Award-Graduate School, TI DSP Solutions Design Challenge, Taiwan, Asia, 1999
President’s Award, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, 1995

Publications

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