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Dr. Hsiao-Chuan Liu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, with an adjunct appointment in Radiology at UMass Chan Medical School. He earned his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Southern California in 2019, following training in electronic engineering and biomedical engineering in Taiwan, and subsequently held faculty and research appointments at Mayo Clinic Rochester and the Keck School of Medicine of USC.

His research program focuses on ultrasound imaging, shear wave elastography, optical coherence elastography, and acoustic tweezers to probe tissue and cell mechanics. He has published more than 100 articles. His work has appeared in Science, Science Advances, Nature Microsystems & Nanoengineering, Applied Physics Letters, Biomedical Optics Express, Journal of Biophotonics, Ultrasonics, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, and others. Most of his journal publications list him as first author, with three selected as editors’ picks or featured articles.  He is currently the Principal Investigator on multiple active NIH awards. He has been awarded and completed 17 national and international projects, serving as both PI and Co-I. In parallel, he has filed three U.S. patents and is actively pursuing commercialization of ultrasound elastography innovations.  His research has been highlighted by AIP Scilight, IEEE TBME Spotlight, USC Viterbi News, MIT News, Interesting Engineering, and Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (GEN), reaching broad audiences in engineering, medicine, and the general public.