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Carolyn L. Bayer is a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin. She completed a B.S. in Electrical Engineering at Case Western Reserve University, and a Ph.D in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. Her postdoctoral research uses multiwavelength photoacoustic imaging, in combination with biomolecularly- targeted nanoparticle contrast agents, to monitor the devel- opment of distinctive molecular signatures involved in tumor growth and response to treatment in vivo.
Geoffrey Luke is a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Predoctoral Fellow in the Department of Electrical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. He received a B.S. in Computer Engineering and Mathematics and a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wyoming, where he developed a sensor based on the visual system of the common housefly. His cur- rent research is focused on early cancer detection and char- acterization using molecular photoacoustic imaging.
Stanislav Emelianov received B.S. and M.S. degrees in physics and acoustics in 1986 and 1989, respectively, and a Ph.D. degree in physics in 1993 from Moscow State University, Russia. In 2002, Dr. Emelianov moved to The University of Texas at Austin and formed the Ultrasound Imaging and Therapeutics Research Laboratory. Dr. Emelianov’s research interests are in the areas of medical imaging for therapeutics and diagnostic applications, ultrasound microscopy, elastici- ty imaging, photoacoustical imaging, cellular/molecular imaging, and functional imaging. Dr. Emelianov has pub- lished over 100 archival publications and over 12 book chap- ters. Throughout his career he has mentored and served on dissertation committees of more than 43 graduate students. Finally, Dr. Emelianov is an American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) fellow and is currently Vice President of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control Society.
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