Zhongping Chen

Zhongping Chen is a professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). His research focuses on the development of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) and its functional extensions for medical imaging.

Education and career Chen received his bachelor's degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Cornell University. He leads the Functional Optical Coherence Tomography (F-OCT) Laboratory at UCI.

Research Zhongping Chen’s research focuses on optical coherence tomography (OCT) and its functional extensions for biomedical imaging. His published work includes early studies on Doppler OCT (D-OCT), a method for measuring blood flow in microcirculation. He has also reported research on optical coherence elastography (OCE) and related functional OCT techniques.

Awards and honors Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (2005) Fellow, Optica (2007) Fellow, SPIE Michael S. Feld Biophotonics Award (2024) Distinguished Senior Faculty Award for Research, University of California, Irvine Academic Senate (2026).