Xincheng Yao, PhD is a Richard & Loan Hill Professor of Bioengineering and Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). Dr. Yao received his PhD in Optics from the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2001. This was followed by his postdoctoral research in the Biophysical Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) from 2001 to 2004. He held a LANL Technical Staff appointment from 2004 to 2006, served at CFD Research Corporation as a Senior Research Scientist from 2006 to 2007, was a faculty of University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) from 2007-2014, and joined UIC faculty in 2014. Dr. Yao’s research interests include biomedical optics instrumentation, ultra-wide field fundus photography, functional optical coherence tomography (OCT), OCT angiography, super-resolution ophthalmoscopy, and machine learning based image classification.

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Terms of Appointment: May 2020 - April 2022