{"id":3431,"date":"2024-11-05T09:25:24","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T14:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/doctor-of-engineering\/faculty\/jin-u-kang\/"},"modified":"2024-11-05T09:25:24","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T14:25:24","slug":"jin-u-kang","status":"publish","type":"people","link":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/doctor-of-engineering\/faculty\/jin-u-kang\/","title":{"rendered":"Jin U. Kang"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jin Kang, the Jacob Suter Jammer Professor of electrical and computer engineering, is an expert in optical imaging, sensing, fiber optic devices and photonic systems. He holds a joint appointment in the Department of Dermatology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and is a member of Johns Hopkins\u2019 Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute and the Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics. Kang chaired the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 2008 to 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kang\u2019s research is focused on developing novel optical techniques and devices for a wide range of biomedical applications. He is internationally known for work in novel sensing and imaging systems for biomedical applications; fiber optic sensors and devices including fiber lasers for a range of medical and communications applications; and research on the discovery of novel nonlinear and quantum optical efforts. Kang also has pioneered the development of endoscopic, common-path fiber optic optical coherence tomography (OCT) techniques for medical imaging and sensing; these systems have enabled the development of microsurgical and robotic tools that allow safer, more precise surgical outcomes. His group was the first to implement and demonstrate real-time, 4-D OCT systems that could allow surgeons to monitor surgical sites in 3-D video during surgery.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Kang has also been working to create a \u201csmart\u201d tool system to help surgeons more accurately and safely perform microsurgeries in areas like retinal surgeries, cornea transplants, vascular surgeries, and cochlear implants. He recently launched a JHU Fast Forward startup company, LIV (Live Imaging Vision) Med Tech Inc., to work on these image-guided robotic tools. Other projects involve building real-time Doppler 3-D imaging systems for intraoperative assessment of surgeries like carotid endarterectomy and cerebrovascular surgery.<\/span><\/p>\n

A holder of more than 20 patents, Kang is a program chair of CLEO A&T and a fellow of the Optical Society of America, the International Optics Society (SPIE), and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. He is a recipient of the ONR Young Investigator Award, the Australian Institute of Advanced Studies Fellowship, a NASA Faculty Fellowship, the Oak Ridge Institute of Science and Education fellowship, and the Brain Korea Distinguished Faculty Fellowship.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kang was a topical editor of <\/span>Optics Letters<\/span><\/i> and is an editorial board member of the <\/span>Journal of the Optical Society of Korea<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>Chinese Optics Letters<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kang received his BS degree in physics from Western Washington University in 1992, and a master\u2019s degree and PhD in optical science and electrical engineering from the University of Central Florida in 1993 and 1996, respectively. He worked as a research engineer for the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., prior to joining the faculty of Whiting School of Engineering in 1998.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-3431","people","type-people","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nJin U. Kang - Doctor of Engineering<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/faculty\/jin-u-kang\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jin U. 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