Huabei Jiang, Ph.D., joined the University of South Florida (USF) in 2017 as a professor and founding faculty member of USF’s Medical Engineering Department and the founding Director of the USF Center for Advanced Biomedical Imaging. He started his career as an assistant professor of physics at Clemson University in 1997 and became a full professor there in 2003. He joined the University of Florida (UF) in 2005 as a founding senior faculty member of the newly established Biomedical Engineering Department and later became the J. Crayton Pruitt Family endowed professor in 2008. He has published over 400 peer-reviewed scientific articles and patents and is the author of three books: Diffuse Optical Tomography: Principles and Applications (CRC Press, 2011), Photoacoustic Tomography (CRC Press, 2014), and Thermoacoustic Tomography: Principles and Applications (IOP Publishing, 2020). Professor Jiang is a Fellow of Optica (formerly the Optical Society of America), the International Society of Optical Engineering (SPIE), and the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). Outside of his research and teaching, he spends much of his time practicing Chinese calligraphy and painting (ink/color pencil, watercolor, pastel, oil, and acrylic). He had the first exhibition of his artworks in July 2019 in Chengdu, China. He is also a recipient of numerous awards in professional art competitions.
