Zhongping Chen


Zhongping Chen is a professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of California, Irvine. His research focuses on the development of Optical Coherence Tomography and its functional extensions for medical imaging.

Education and career

Chen received his bachelor's degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Cornell University. He leads the Functional Optical Coherence Tomography Laboratory at UCI.

Research

Zhongping Chen’s research focuses on optical coherence tomography and its functional extensions for biomedical imaging. His published work includes early studies on Doppler OCT, a method for measuring blood flow in microcirculation. He has also reported research on optical coherence elastography and related functional OCT techniques.

Awards and honors