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DR. CHENG MA

My research strives to break the optical diffusion limit and image inside opaque biological tissues using light, with applications in early cancer diagnosis, precision medicine, neural imaging, optogenetics, and more. 

LATEST NEWS

May 20, 2017

Our work of small animal whole body imaging using photoacoustic computed tomography was published in Nature Biomedical Engineering.  

Mar. 10, 2016

I was awarded "the Thousand Talents Plan for Young Professionals" (“青年千人计划”), a prestiguous award in China for excellent research. Beginning May 2016, I will join the Department of Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University as an assistant professor.  

Feb. 11, 2015

Nature  dedicated an article in News Feature to review most recent breakthroughs in imaging inside opaque biological tissues using wavefront shaping. Our work was highlighted.  

Jan. 20, 2017

Our work of using lossless-encoding compressed ultra-fast photography to capture development of photonic Mach cone was published in Science Advances.  

Oct. 5, 2015

Our work of using binary time-reversed adapted perturbation (bTRAP) for fast optical focusing into dynamic scattering media was reported by Optics & Photonics News.  

Nov. 02, 2014

Our work of using time-variant objects as guide stars for light focusing inside scattering media was published in Nature Photonics.  

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