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[email protected] July, 2013 Xinmai Yang Assistant Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering The University of Kansas I. Education Ph. D. Mechanical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA, May 2003 M. E. Solid Mechanics, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, PR China, June 2000 B. E. Engineering Mechanics, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, PR China, June 1997 II. Employment history 8/2008-present Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Kansas 3/2006-8/2008 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis 6/2003-2/2006 Postdoctoral Research Associate, National Center for Physical Acoustics, University of Mississippi 1/2000-5/2003 Graduate Research Assistant, Mechanical Engineering, Boston University III. Research interests Photoacoustic/ultrasound imaging Therapeutic ultrasound Combination of ultrasound and laser for diagnosis and therapy I. Research record A. Research Publications Peer-reviewed journal publications 28. Huizhong Cui, Ti Zhang, and Xinmai Yang, “Laser-enhanced cavitation during high intensity focused ultrasound: An in vivo study,” Applied Physics Letters, 102 (13), 133702-133702-4 (2013). 27. Ti Zhang, Huizhong Cui, Chia-Yi Fang, Long-Jyun Su, Shenqiang Ren, Huan-Cheng Chang, Xinmai Yang, and M. Laird Forrest, “photoacoustic contrast imaging of biological tissues with nanodiamonds fabricated for high near-infrared absorbance,” Journal of Biomedical Optics, Vol. 18, 026018 (2013). Page 1 785-864-1753
[email protected] July, 2013 26. Huizhong Cui and Xinmai Yang, “Laser enhanced high-intensity focused ultrasound thrombolysis: an in vitro study,” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 133(2), EL123 (2013). 25. Janggun Jo, Hongyu Zhang, Paul D. Cheney, and Xinmai Yang, “Photoacoustic detection of functional responses in the motor cortex of awake behaving monkey during forelimb movement,” Journal of Biomedical Optics, Vol.