Dr. Jianlong Yang is an Associate Professor (Tenure-Track) of Biomedical Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU). His research interest is to develop light-based technologies for the precision, minimal invasion, and intelligence of diagnostic and therapeutic devices. He is particularly interested in developing (1) functional 3D/4D endoscopy based on optical coherence tomography (OCT) for monitoring thermal treatment of tumor and intravascular lesion; (2) novel fiber-optic devices for medical sensing, imaging, and therapy; (3) Explainable data-driven methods for treatment evaluation and prognosis prediction.

Dr. Yang received his PhD in Optical Engineering in 2015 from the Laboratory for Laser Plasmas, Department of Physics, SJTU. He worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher from 2016 to 2018 at the Center for Ophthalmic Optics & Lasers leaded by Prof. David Huang (a co-inventor of OCT) at Oregon Health and Science University. Before joining SJTU, His was a “Chun Lei Talent” Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Ningbo Institute of Material Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Dr. Yang has published more than sixty peer-reviewed scientific papers (more than thirty as the first and/or corresponding author) in Optics Letters, Photonics Research, Biomedical Optics Express, Journal of Biophotonics, JAMA Ophthalmology, British Journal of Ophthalmology, Medical Image Analysis, IEEE Transaction on Medical Imaging, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, etc. He has applied for more than twenty CN/US/PCT invention patents. Eleven of them have been granted. He has presided or participated more than a dozen of China and US research projects and received funding supports of more than four million RMB yuan as the principal investigator. He pioneered the technology of handheld OCT angiography, which has been widely used in the clinical research of pediatric diseases. He cofounded CETC Txstar Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. and Unfold Therapeutics Co. for the commercialization of the laser and therapeutic technologies he invented.

2006-2010 Bachelor – East China University of Science and Technology

2010-2015 Ph.D. – Shanghai Jiao Tong University

2016-2018, Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for Ophthalmic Optics & Lasers, Oregon Health and Science University

2018-2021, “Chun Lei Talent” Associate Professor, Ningbo Institute of Material Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2021-, Associate Professor (Tenure-Track), School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Medical Optical Sensing and Imaging, OCT, Fiber Optics, Thermal Therapies, Artificial Intelligence.

1. Huihong Zhang, Jianlong Yang*, Kang Zhou, Fei Li, Yan Hu, Yitian Zhao, Ce Zheng, Xiulan Zhang, Jiang Liu. Automatic Segmentation and Visualization of Choroid in OCT with Knowledge Infused Deep Learning [J]. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics 24(12), 3408-3420 (2020).
2. Qiangjiang Hao, Kang Zhou, Jianlong Yang*, Liyang Fang, Zhengjie Chai, Yuhui Ma, Yan Hu, Shenghua Gao, Jiang Liu. High signal-to-noise ratio reconstruction of low bit-depth optical coherence tomography using deep learning [J]. Journal of Biomedical Optics 25(12), 123702 (2020).
3. Jianlong Yang*, Yan Hu, Liyang Fang, Jun Cheng, Jiang Liu. Universal digital filtering for denoising volumetric retinal OCT and OCT angiography in 3D shearlet domain [J]. Optics Letters 45(3), 694-697 (2020).
4. Ting Zhou, Jianlong Yang*, Kang Zhou, Liyang Fang, Yan Hu, Jun Cheng, Yitian Zhao, Xiangping Chen, Shenghua Gao, Jiang Liu. Digital resolution enhancement in low transverse sampling optical coherence tomography angiography using deep learning [J]. OSA Continuum 3(6) 1664-1678 (2020).
5. Ce Zheng, Xiaolin Xie, Kang Zhou, Bang Chen, Jili Chen, Haiyun Ye, Wen Li, Tong Qiao, Shenghua Gao, Jianlong Yang*, Jiang Liu. Assessment of Generative Adversarial Networks Model for Synthetic Optical Coherence Tomography Images of Retinal Disorders [J]. Translational Vision Science & Technology 19, 1993 (2020).
6. Fei Li, Hao Li, Jianlong Yang, Jiang Liu, Aung Tin, Xiulan Zhang. Upside-down position leads to choroidal expansion and anterior chamber shallowing: OCT study [J]. British Journal of Ophthalmology 104(6), 790-794 (2020).
7. Kang Zhou, Yuting Xiao, Jianlong Yang, Jun Cheng, Wen Liu, Weixin Luo, Zaiwang Gu, Jiang Liu, Shenghua Gao. Encoding Structure-Texture Relation with P-Net for Anomaly Detection in Retinal Images [C]. European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 360-377 (2020).
8. Mou, Lei, Yitian Zhao, Huazhu Fu, Yonghuai Liu, Jun Cheng, Yalin Zheng, Pan Su, Jianlong Yang, Li Cheng, Alejandro F. Frangi, Masahiro Akiba, Jiang Liu. CS2-Net: Deep learning segmentation of curvilinear structures in medical imaging [J]. Medical image analysis 67, 101874 (2020).
9. Yuhui Ma, Huaying Hao, Jianyang Xie, Huazhu Fu, Jiong Zhang, Jianlong Yang, Zhen Wang. Jiang Liu, Yalin Zheng, Yitian Zhao. ROSE: A Retinal OCT-Angiography Vessel Segmentation Dataset and New Model [J] IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging 40(3), 928-939 (2020).
10. Jianlong Yang*, Peng Liu, Lixin Duan, Yan Hu, Jiang Liu. Deep learning enables extraction of capillary-level angiograms from single OCT volume [C]. Oral presentation at SPIE BiOS 2020.
11. George WS Burwood, Suzan Dziennis, Teresa Wilson, Sarah Foster, Yuan Zhang, Gangjun Liu, Jianlong Yang, Sean Elkins, Alfred L Nuttall. The mechanoelectrical transducer channel is not required for regulation of cochlear blood flow during loud sound exposure in mice [J]. Scientific Reports 10, 9229 (2020).
12. Qifeng Yan, Bang Chen, Yan Hu, Jun Cheng, Yan Gong, Jianlong Yang, Jiang Liu, Yitian Zhao. Speckle Reduction of OCT via Super Resolution Reconstruction and Its Application on Retinal Layer Segmentation [J]. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine 101871 (2020).
13. Jianlong Yang, Haizhe Zhong, Shuaiyi Zhang, Yulong Tang and Dianyuan Fan. Cascade-Gain-Switching for Generating 3.5-micron Nanosecond Pulses From Monolithic Fiber Lasers [J]. IEEE Photonics Journal, 10(5) 1-12 (2018).
14. Jianlong Yang, Rahul Chandwani, Varun Gopinatth, Timothy Boyce, Stephen Pflugfelder, David Huang, Gangjun Liu. Near-infrared laser thermal conjunctivoplasty [J]. Scientific Reports 8(1) 3863 (2018).
15. San Jin Kim, Jianlong Yang, Gangjun Liu, David Huang, J Peter Campbell. Optical coherence tomography angiography and ultra-widefield optical coherence tomography in a child with incontinentia pigment [J]. Ophthalmic Surgery Lasers and Imaging Retina 49(4), 273-275 (2018).
16. Jianlong Yang, Rahul Chandwani, Rui Zhao, Zhuo Wang, Yali Jia, David Huang, Gangjun Liu. Polarization-multiplexed, dual-beam swept source optical coherence tomography angiography [J]. Journal of Biophotonics 11 (3), e201700303 (2018).
17. Jianlong Yang, Liang Liu, J Peter Campbell, David Huang, Gangjun Liu. Handheld optical coherence tomography angiography [J]. Biomedical Optics Express 8(4), 2287-2300 (2017).
18. Jianlong Yang, Johnny Su, Jie Wang, Silu Men, Yali Jia, David Huang, Gangjun Liu. Hematocrit dependence of flow signal in optical coherence tomography angiography [J]. Biomedical Optics Express 8(4), 776-789 (2017).
19. Gangjun Liu, Jianlong Yang, Jie Wang, Yan Li, Pengxiao Zang, Yali Jia, David Huang. Extended axial imaging range, widefield swept source optical coherence tomography angiography [J]. Journal of Biophotonics 10(11), 1464-1472 (2017).
20. Jianlong Yang, Yali Jia, David Huang, Gangjun Liu. Polarization-multiplexed, dual-beam swept source optical coherence tomography angiography [C]. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science 58(8), 3811-3811 (2017) (Oral presentation at ARVO Annual Conference 2017, Baltimore, MA).
21. Jianlong Yang, Haizhe Zhong, Shuaiyi Zhang, Dianyuan Fan. Theoretical Characterization of the Ultra-Broadband Gain Spectra at ~1600-2100 nm from Thulium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers [J]. IEEE Photonics Journal 8(6), 1-10 (2016).
22. Jianlong Yang, Yao Wang, Geng Zhang, Yulong Tang, and Jianqiu Xu. High-power highly-linear-polarized nanosecond all-fibre MOPA at 2040 nm [J]. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters 27(9), 986-989 (2015).
23. Yao Wang, Jianlong Yang, Chongyuan Huang, Yongfeng Luo, Shiwei Wang, Yulong Tang, Jianqiu Xu. High power tandem-pumped thulium-doped fiber laser [J] Optics Express 23(3), 2991-2998 (2015).
24. Yongfeng Luo, Yulong Tang, Jianlong Yang, Yao Wang, Shiwei Wang, Kunyu Tao, Li Zhan, Jianqiu Xu. High signal-to-noise ratio single-frequency 2-μm Brillouin fibre laser [J] Optics Letters 39(9), 2626-2628 (2014).
25. Jianlong Yang, Hongqiang Li, Yulong Tang, Jianqiu Xu. Temporal characteristics of in-band-pumped gain-switched thulium-doped fiber lasers [J]. Journal of the Optical Society of America B 31(1), 80-86 (2014).
26. Jianlong Yang, Yulong Tang, Jianqiu Xu. Development and applications of gain-switched fibre lasers [J]. Photonics Research 1(1), 52-57 (2013).
27. Jianlong Yang, Yulong Tang, Jianqiu Xu. Hybrid-pumped, linear-polarized, gain-switching operation of a Tm-doped fibre laser [J]. Laser Physics Letters 10(5), 055104 (2013).
28. Jianlong Yang, Yulong Tang, Rui Zhang, Jianqiu Xu. Modelling and characteristics of gain-switched diode-pumped Er-Yb codoped fibre lasers [J] IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics 48(12), 1560-1567 (2012).