Dr. Young L. Kim joined the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering in the summer of 2007. He received his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Northwestern University in 2004. While he was a postdoctoral fellow in Cancer Education and Career Development Program funded by the National Cancer Institute, he received his MSCI (Clinical Investigation) from Northwestern University in 2007. He also received a postdoctoral fellowship from the Cancer Research and Cancer Prevention Foundation in 2005. He has been a manuscript reviewer of numerous journals, a review panelist of the National Science research grant proposals, and an editorial board member of Open Optics Journal and Open Optics Reviews.   He published more than 25 peer-reviewed articles during his graduate studies and postdoctoral training. His research interests are in understanding light propagation in biological tissue, developing advanced biophotonics techniques for the quantification of physiological conditions and diseases such as cancer, and further translating these techniques to clinical settings and epidemiological studies. In particular, he is developing novel tissue spectroscopy/imaging techniques for early cancer detection, for monitoring efficacy of chemotherapy, and for surgical resection guidance.