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                                         Changho Lee Ph.D.

                                          

                           Associated Professor

                           Department of Nuclear Medicine & AI convergence

                           Interdisciplinary Program of Biomedical Engineering and Molecular Medicine

                           Chonnam National University Medical School & Hwasun Hospital 

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Dr. Changho Lee is currently an assistant & associate professor at the Chonnam National University (CNU) since 2017. He has studied at the Kyungpook National University for a Ph.D degree and researched at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York as a visiting scholar.  Before joining the CNU, he worked as an assistant research professor and a postdoctoral fellow at the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH, 2013-2016) and at the Johns Hopkins University (2016-2017). He focused on developing novel-biomedical imaging modalities such as optical coherence tomography, photoacoustic imaging, integrated optical imaging, molecular optical imaging, and intraoperative surgical imaging. 

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Position

• Associate professor, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, South Korea, 2021 - Present

• Assistant professor, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, South Korea, 2017 - 2021

• Research assistant professor, Future IT innovation Lab./Department of Creative IT Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, South Korea, 2015 - 2016  

• Visiting scholar, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, USA, 2012 - 2013; Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA, 2009 - 2009   

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Education & Training

• Postdoctoral fellow, Johns Hopkins University, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2016 - 2017

• Postdoctoral fellow, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Future IT innovation Lab./Department of Creative IT Engineering, 2013 - 2015                  

• Ph.D., Kyungpook National University, Electrical Engineering, 2008 - 2013        

• Dissertation: Combined photoacoustic-optical coherence tomography using a single near-infrared supercontinuum laser and biomedical applications

• M.S., Kyungpook National University, Electrical Engineering, 2006 - 2008        

• B.S., Kyungpook National University, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2001 - 2006     

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Professional Activities

• Member of   Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineer (SPIE), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engenderers (IEEE), World Molecular Imaging Society (WMIS), Korean Society of Nuclear Medicine (KSNM), Optical Society of Korea (OSK), Korean Society of Molecular Imaging (KSMI), and Optical Society of America (OSA).

• Reviewer of Journal of Biomedical Optics, Applied Optics, Optics Letters, Biomedical Optics Express, Photoacoustics, Current Optics and Photonics, Current Medical Imaging Reviews, Biomedical Engineering Letters, Journal of Biophotonics, Optics and Lasers in Engineering, Clinical & Experimental Otorhinolaryngology, Applied Sciences, Journal of Imaging, Infrared Physics & Technology, Optics & Laser Technology, Applied Physics Letters, Sensors, Micromachines, ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering, Scientific Reports, Diagnostics, Laser & Photonics review, and Acta Biomaterialia.

• Guest editor of Materials (2019) and Sensors (2020) 

• Section board member of Sensors (2020~)

• Academic committee of KOSOMBE (The Korean Society of Medical & Biological Engineering, 2022~) 

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Awards​

• POSTECH Presidential Fellowship for Student Business Plan (2014); 1st award; SAMSUNG Electro-Mechanics 1nside Edge Best Paper: Bronze Award (2014); Marquis Who's Who, (2015-2021); APGC Lab, Tech+Star for startup launch lab POSTECH: 2nd Best Presentation Award (2015); CNU Excellent early Faculty Award (2017); CNU Excellent Factualty teaching Award (2020); HBMW Young investigator Award (2020); Photonics Conference Best Poster Paper Award (2021).