Young L. Kim
Associate Head for Research
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Showalter Faculty Scholar
University Faculty Scholar
Email: youngkim@purdue.edu
Phone: +1 765 496-2445
Fax: 1 765 496-1459
Purdue University
Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering
Martin C. Jischke Hall of Biomedical Engineering
206 S. Martin Jischke Drive
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2032
Personal web site: http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~kim50
Education
- BS, Mechanical Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea, 1997
- MS, Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2002
- PhD, Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2004
- MS, Clinical Investigation, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 2007
Research Interests
- Biophotonics/Biomedical optics
- Understanding light propagation in biological tissue
- Optical diagnosis and imaging of early cancer
- Enhanced backscattering (or coherent backscattering) for tissue diagnosis
- Tissue/cell characterization using light scattering spectroscopy
- Spectroscopic imaging system/microscopy
- Endoscopically compatible fiber optics probes
- Low-coherence interferometry for cancer imaging
- Cancer screening and chemoprevention
- Cancer epidemiology