Assistant Professor and Y. T. Lo Faculty Fellow
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, United States
Pengfei Song, PhD is a Y. T. Lo Faculty Fellow and Assistant Professor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Dr. Song is also an affiliate faculty member with the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, Department of Bioengineering, Neuroscience Program, Cancer Center at Illinois, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, and Carle Illinois College of Medicine at UIUC.
Before joining Illinois as a tenure-track assistant professor in 2019, Dr. Song obtained his PhD degree in 2014 and conducted his postdoctoral training under the supervision of Drs. James Greenleaf and Shigao Chen at Mayo Clinic until 2018. His research interests include ultrafast ultrasound imaging, super-resolution ultrasound, functional ultrasound, 3D ultrasound imaging, deep learning, and ultrasound shear wave elastography.
Dr. Song has published over 90 peer-reviewed journal papers with a Google Scholar total citation exceeding 5000 and an h-index of 38. He holds several patents that have been licensed and commercialized by major ultrasound companies and used worldwide in the clinic. Dr. Song has delivered over 20 invited presentations including twice at the Gordon Research Conference. He has been regularly selected to the List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students for his teaching career at UIUC.
Dr. Song is a recipient of the NIH K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award, the NSF CAREER Award, the NIBIB Trailblazer Award, the IEEE Ultrasonics Early Career Investigator Award, and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZ) Early Career Acceleration Award. His research program has been continuously funded by NIH, DOD CDMRP, and NSF. He is an elected Fellow of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM), a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), a Senior Member of IEEE, and a Full Member of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA).
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Ultrasound in Neuroscience: Sensing, Imaging, Modulation, and/or Therapy
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
9:00am – 10:30am