2024
Honorary Member (Shang Gao, Xihan Ma, Ryo Murakami), National Academy of Inventors Apr. 24
Conference Travel Award (Ryo Murakami), SPIE Photonics West 2024, San Francisco, USA, Jan. 2024.
Gapontsev Family Collaborative Venture Fund, (Haichong Zhang, Co-PI)
2023
Featured Article in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (TBME) November Issue 2023, IEEE, Paper: Laparoscopic Photoacoustic Imaging System Based on Side-illumination Diffusing Fibers
Conference Travel Award (Ryo Murakami), IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS) 2023, Quebec, Canada, Sep. 2023
WPI Biomedical Engineering Outstanding Research Award 2023 (Haichong Zhang).
WPI Biomedical Engineering Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award, WPI (Liudmila Serebrennikova).
First place (Ryo Murakami), Graduate Research Innovation Exchange (GRIE), Robotics Engineering, Cyberphysical Systems, Electrical and Computer Engineering, WPI.
Second place (Shang Gao), Graduate Research Innovation Exchange (GRIE), Robotics Engineering, Cyberphysical Systems, Electrical and Computer Engineering, WPI.
Finalists (two MS students: Yash Ajay Garje, Wen-Yi “Tina” Kuo), Graduate Research Innovation Exchange (GRIE), Robotics Engineering, Cyberphysical Systems, Electrical and Computer Engineering, WPI.
Robert F. Wagner All-Conference Best Student Paper Award, SPIE Medical Imaging Conference (Shang Gao).
Best Poster Award, SPIE Medical Imaging Conference, Ultrasound Imaging and Tomography (Yichuan Tang).
2022
Multiple project features on WPI RBE video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8JZYCSJ1QQ&t
Amazon Robotics GBTI Award, (Haichong Zhang, Co-PI)
NIH R01 “Automatic Wide-Field Optical Coherence Tomography for Assessment of Transplant Kidney Viability” (Haichong Zhang, M-PI).
Best Poster Award, SPIE Medical Imaging Conference, Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling (Yichuan Tang).
Travel Award, SPIE Photonics West Conference (Shang Gao).
First place (Yichuan Tang), Graduate Research Innovation Exchange (GRIE), Robotics Engineering, Cyberphysical Systems, Electrical and Computer Engineering, WPI.
Second place (Xihan Ma), Graduate Research Innovation Exchange (GRIE), Robotics Engineering, Cyberphysical Systems, Electrical and Computer Engineering, WPI.
First place (Shang Gao), Graduate Research Innovation Exchange (GRIE), Life Sciences and Bioengineering, WPI.
2021
UMass Center for Clinical and Translational Science (UMCCTS) Pilot Project Program (Haichong Zhang, Co-PI)
Nakajima Foundation Scholarship (Ryo Murakami), PhD Fellowship.
A MQP team (Development of Needle Intervention System with Mirror Ultrasound Imaging) was selected for Best Poster Award, RBE.
First place (Jakub Kaminski), Graduate Research Innovation Exchange (GRIE), Robotics Engineering, Cyberphysical Systems, Electrical and Computer Engineering, WPI.
Honorable Mention Best Poster Award, SPIE Medical Imaging Conference (Yichuan Tang).
2020
Early Career Investigator Fellowship, Interstellar Initiative, AMES and NYAS (Haichong Zhang).
NIH R01 “Enhanced imaging and treatment of aggressive subtypes of prostate cancer” (Haichong Zhang, Co-I).
NIH DP5 Administrative Supplement “Robotic Lung Ultrasound for Triage of COVID-19 Patients in a Resource-Limited Environment” (Haichong Zhang, PI).
A MQP team (Ultrasound imaging of tissue engineering bioreactor) was selected for Honorable Mention, BME Provost’s Award.
Two master students (Jakub Kaminski and Shang Gao) were awarded as finalists for Graduate Research Innovation Exchange (GRIE), WPI.
Transformative Research and Innovation, Accelerating Discovery (TRIAD) grant (Haichong Zhang).
2019
NIH Director’s Early Independence Award, NIH “Multiparametric Photoacoustic Imaging-Based Identification of Aggressive Prostate Cancer” (Haichong Zhang, PI).
NSF I-Corp Cohort Program at WPI (Jakub Kaminski).
JSPS Overseas Research Fellowship (Ryosuke Tsumura).
Exchange Research Grant for Researchers, Marubun Research Promotion Foundation (Ryosuke Tsumura).