Qifa Zhou
· Zohrab A. Kaprielian Professor in Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and OphthalmologyUniversity of Southern California · Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Active 1992–2026
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About
Professor Qifa Zhou, PhD, is a Research Professor at the NIH Resource on Medical Ultrasonic Transducer Technology and holds appointments in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Ophthalmology at the University of Southern California (USC). He received his Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University and completed postdoctoral work at the Materials Research Institute at Pennsylvania State University before joining USC in 2002. His research focuses on the development of high frequency ultrasound composite and piezoelectric thick film ultrasound transducers and arrays fabricated using MEMS technology for biomedical imaging applications. He has developed high sensitivity PMN-PT single crystal transducers for ultrasound and photoacoustic imaging of the retina and intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) applications. More recently, he and his collaborators have been working on novel imaging tools to assess the elastic properties of the retina using phase-resolved optical coherence tomography (OCT) combined with acoustic radiation force (ARF), as well as investigating the use of ultrasound for retinal stimulation. Professor Zhou is recognized as a Fellow of SPIE and AIMBE, a senior member of the IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control (UFFC) Society, and an active member of several technical committees within IEEE and SPIE. He serves as an Associate Editor of IEEE UFFC and has held leadership roles such as Chapter Chair in IEEE UFFC since 2015. His…
Research topics
- Computer Science
- Materials science
- Electrical engineering
- Nanotechnology
- Physics
- Mechanical engineering
- Artificial Intelligence
- Engineering
- Medicine
- Composite material
Selected publications
3D Printing of Functional Magnetic Materials: From Design to Applications
Advanced Functional Materials · 2021 · 200 citations
Abstract The research of functional magnetic materials has become a hot topic in the past few years due to their fast, long‐range, and precise response in diverse environments. Functional magnetic devices using different magnetic materials and structure designs have been developed and demonstrated good advantages to enable various applications. However, the required magnetic materials and structure designs for diverse functions also increase the fabrication difficulties while developing such dev…
Stretchable Nanolayered Thermoelectric Energy Harvester on Complex and Dynamic Surfaces
Nano Letters · 2020 · 168 citations
= 19 K on both developable and nondevelopable surfaces, which are much improved compared with those of existing S-TEGs. The energy harvesting of S-TEG from the dynamic surfaces of the human skin offers a potential energy solution for the wearable devices for health monitoring.
Ultrasound-induced wireless energy harvesting: From materials strategies to functional applications
Nano Energy · 2020 · 128 citations
Senior authorCorrespondingDeep image prior for undersampling high-speed photoacoustic microscopy
Photoacoustics · 2021 · 72 citations
, undersampling) for increased imaging speed over a large field-of-view. Deep learning (DL) methods have recently been used to improve sparsely sampled PAM images; however, these methods often require time-consuming pre-training and large training dataset with ground truth. Here, we propose the use of deep image prior (DIP) to improve the image quality of undersampled PAM images. Unlike other DL approaches, DIP requires neither pre-training nor fully-sampled ground truth, enabling its flexible a…
Engineering sonogenetic EchoBack-CAR T cells
Cell · 2025-04-04 · 49 citations
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Recent grants
High-Resolution Flow Imaging of Optic Nerve Head and Retrolaminar Microvascular Circulation
NIH · $2.0M · 2023–2027
Large aperture and wideband modular ultrasound arrays for the diagnosis of liver cancer
NIH · $3.3M · 2017–2023
Center Core Grant for Vision Research
NIH · $10.3M · 2018–2028
Frequent coauthors
- 381 shared
K. Kirk Shung
- 221 shared
Mark S. Humayun
Southern California Eye Institute
- 175 shared
Zhongping Chen
- 167 shared
Laiming Jiang
Sichuan University
- 166 shared
Ruimin Chen
University of Bristol
- 163 shared
Gengxi Lu
University of Southern California
- 120 shared
Runze Li
University of Southern California
- 119 shared
Xuejun Qian
ShanghaiTech University
Education
- 2006
Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering
University of Southern California
- 2003
M.S., Biomedical Engineering
University of Southern California
- 2001
B.S., Biomedical Engineering
University of Southern California
Awards & honors
- 2023 Best Paper Award at the International Conference on the…
- 2023 IAAM Fellow (International Association of Advanced Mate…
- 2022 USC Viterbi Senior Research Award
- 2022 BME Frontier Best Paper
- 2019 National Academy of Inventors Senior Member
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