Dr. Qifa Zhou is presently working as a Research Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at University of Southern California, United States and also working as a guest professor at Shenzhen University, China. He received his Ph.D. in Materials and Devices from Xi'an Jiaotong University, China (1993). He served as a session chair and organizing committee member for several organizations. He supervised number of graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and visiting scholars under his guidance. He is the key speaker in many international conferences. He is the reviewer for several scientific journals. He has authored more than 100 peer reviewed articles published in international journals.
Dr. Qifa Zhou’s research interest includes biomedical functional image, photo acoustic sensor and imaging for intravascular application (IVUS), piezoelectric thin film, Nano materials, Composites, Single crystal, MEMS and 3D printing technology, Micro-mechanical properties of cancer cells and tissue, oxygen metabolism in the brain by using photo acoustic imaging, Therapeutic ultrasound for small vein occlusion in the eye, Ultrasound stimulated retina and cancer cell, and High frequency piezoelectric ultrasound transducer/array and elastography imaging.
