Xi Yang received the B.S. degree of Engineering in Agricultural Mechanization and Automation and Computer Science & Technology in 2016, and the Master’s degree in Agricultural Engineering in 2019 from Shihezi University, Xinjiang, China. Now, she is a Ph.D. student in the Center of Excellence in Biomedical Research on Advanced Integrated-on-chips Neurotechnologies (CenBRAIN Neurotech), Westlake University, since September 2019, working on the photoacoustic imaging technique.

Xi Yang interests in the non-invasive imaging technique, multi-physical modeling and simulation, signal processing, and image reconstruction. She focuses on photoacoustic imaging of the human brain. Presently, she works on numerical analysis to simulate multi-physical processes to understand the generation and propagation mechanism of photoacoustic signals inside the human brain. The project is expected to achieve imaging brain in the deep region.

[1] X. Yang, C. Chai, H. Zuo, Y.-H. Chen, J. Shi, C. Ma and M. Sawan, “M. Monte Carlo-Based Optical Simulation of Optical Distribution in Deep Brain Tissues Using Sixteen Optical Sources”, Bioengineering 2024, vol. 11, no. 3, Art. no. 260, March 2024, https://doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering11030260  

[2] X. Yang, Y.-H. Chen, F. Xia and M. Sawan, “Photoacoustic Imaging for High-accuracy Monitoring of Stroke Diseases: A Review”, Photoacoustics, vol. 23, Art. no. 100287, September 2021, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pacs.2021.100287.  

[3] X. Yang, Y.-H. Chen and M. Sawan, “Photoacoustic generation in human brain with embedded blood vessel: Modeling and simulation”, IEEE PhotonIcs & Electromagnetics Research Symposium, Hangzhou, China, 2021.