Lingyun Wang

Lingyun Wang is a PhD student in the Department of Bioengineering, under the supervision of Dr. Shaohua Pi. He received the bachelor's degree from Soochow University, China, in 2023. Since 2021, he has been specializing in the development of Optical Coherence Tomography and its functional imaging. He is a member of SPIE and ARVO. He has published four first-author journal articles, four conference papers/abstracts, and one patent, with one book chapter in press; as a co-author, he has contributed to three journal articles and three conference abstracts.

 

Extramural Services:

  • Peer-reviewed Journal Reviewer: Neural Networks, Information Science, ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare, Optics Express, Biomedical Optics Express, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, Journal of Biomedical Optics, Optics Communications, Applied Optics, Journal of the Optical Society of America A, Frontiers in Neuroscience, Scientific Reports, Measurement Science and Technology, Biomedical Physics & Engineering Express, New Journal of Physics, Journal of Electronic Imaging, Journal of Medical Imaging, Optical Engineering
  • Peer-reviewed Conference Reviewer: 2025 CVPR Workshop, 2025 NeurIPS, 2025 ICML, 2025 ICLR, 2024 NeurIPS, 2024 CVPR Workshop, 2024 IEEE MIPR, 2024 IEEE IJCB, 2023 IEEE ICICN
  • Conference Program/Technical Committee: 2025 NeurIPS Workshop, 2024 CVIPPR

  • (2025) BMES Bioengineering Travel Grant.
  • (2025) ARVO Foundation Travel Award.
  • (2025) Research Assistant of The Year.
  • (2024) SPIE Photonics West Travel Award.

  • Bachelor, Soochow University, 2019 - 2023

  • Flohr, K., Janeček, M., Wang, L., Valle, V., Pi, S., Peixoto, R.T., & da Silva, S. (2026). Electroporation-based gene delivery and whole-organoid imaging in human retinal organoids. Dev Biol, 530, 148-159.Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2025.11.016.
  • Kong, J., Wang, L., & Pi, S. (2026). Tartrazine-enhanced visible-light OCT for deep-tissue imaging. BIOMEDICAL OPTICS EXPRESS, 17(3), 1255-1266.Optica Publishing Group. doi: 10.1364/BOE.585266.
  • Pi, S., Brown, R., Yun, S., & Wang, L. (2025). In vivo cellular-resolution imaging of retina: modality, cells, and clinical implications. Front Ophthalmol (Lausanne), 5, 1682303.Frontiers. doi: 10.3389/fopht.2025.1682303.
  • Wang, L., Wang, B., Chhablani, J., Sahel, J.A., & Pi, S. (2025). Freqformer: Frequency-Domain Transformer for 3-D Reconstruction and Quantification of Human Retinal Vasculature. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng, PP(99), 1-11.Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi: 10.1109/TBME.2025.3612332.
  • Ganjee, R., Wang, B., Wang, L., Zhao, C., Sahel, J.A., & Pi, S. (2024). BreakNet: discontinuity-resilient multi-scale transformer segmentation of retinal layers. Biomed Opt Express, 15(12), 6725-6738.Optica Publishing Group. doi: 10.1364/BOE.538904.
  • Pi, S., Ganjee, R., Wang, L., Arbuckle, R.K., Zhao, C., Sahel, J.A., Wang, B., & Chen, Y. (2024). Fully automated OCT-based tissue screening system. Optics Letters, 49, 4481-4484.Optical Society of America. doi: 10.1364/OL.530281.
  • Wang, L., Sahel, J.A., & Pi, S. (2024). Sub2Full: split spectrum to boost optical coherence tomography despeckling without clean data. Opt Lett, 49(11), 3062-3065.Optica Publishing Group. doi: 10.1364/OL.518906.
  • Chen, Z., Cheng, Q., Wang, L., Mo, Y., Li, K., & Mo, J. (2023). Optical coherence tomography for in vivo longitudinal monitoring of artificial dermal scaffold. Lasers Surg Med, 55(3), 316-326.Wiley. doi: 10.1002/lsm.23645.
  • Wang, L., Chen, S., Liu, L., Yin, X., Shi, G., & Mo, J. (2023). Axial super-resolution optical coherence tomography via complex-valued network. Phys Med Biol, 68(23).IOP Publishing. doi: 10.1088/1361-6560/ad0997.
  • Wang, L., Chen, Z., Zhu, Z., Yu, X., & Mo, J. (2022). Compressive-sensing swept-source optical coherence tomography angiography with reduced noise. J Biophotonics, 15(8), e202200087.Wiley. doi: 10.1002/jbio.202200087.

  • Wang, L., Wang, B., Chhablani, J., Sahel, J.A., & Pi, S. (2025). Transformer-Based Method for Visualization and Quantification of 3-D Human Retinal Circulation from Single Volume in Commercial OCT. Seattle, USA.
  • Pi, S., Ganjee, R., Wang, L., Arbuckle, R., Zhao, C., Sahel, J.A., Wang, B., & Chen, Y. (2024). Fully Automated OCT-based Tissue Screening System. In INVESTIGATIVE OPHTHALMOLOGY & VISUAL SCIENCE, 65(9).
  • Wang, L., Pi, S., & Mo, J. (2024). Axial super-resolution optical coherence tomography imaging by complex-valued enhanced deep residual network. In Izatt, J.A., & Fujimoto, J.G. (Eds.). In Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging, 12830, (p. 128300g-128300g-5).SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics.SPIE. doi: 10.1117/12.3005634.
  • Wang, L., Sahel, J.A., & Pi, S. (2024). Reveal retinal ultra-structure with selfsupervised denoising in vis-OCT.
  • Wang, L., Wang, B., Chhablani, J., Sahel, J.A., & Pi, S. (2024). GAN-based High-definition 3-D Retinal Vasculature in Humans with Commercial OCT. In INVESTIGATIVE OPHTHALMOLOGY & VISUAL SCIENCE, 65(7).The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology.
Research Interests
Ophthalmology and optometry Communications engineering Atomic, molecular and optical physics Electronics, sensors and digital hardware
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