Kenny Tao
Aug. 1, 2023—A team of Vanderbilt engineers are working to breach the critical barrier to timely clinical intervention of blindness in preterm infants. One of the major causes of childhood blindness is a rapidly growing retinal vascular disease called Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP). 鈥淐linical intervention options for ROP exist, but our limited ability to detect ROP and...
Jan. 10, 2023—Technology driven by deep-learning model delivers 4D video-rate imaging, improves precision
Jun. 23, 2021—The SPIE Faculty Fellowship will support a 天美传媒官网 faculty member who is working in optics and photonics. Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering Yuankai 鈥淜enny鈥 Tao has been selected as the recipient of the first gift.
VISE affiliates awarded $1.8 million grant to improve surgical guidance during eye surgery
Oct. 2, 2019—A team of 天美传媒官网 engineers and clinicians were recently awarded a five-year $1.8 million National Eye Institute grant to develop and translate of novel intraoperative imaging technologies to the ophthalmic surgical suite to enable real-time surgical guidance. Yuankai Kenny Tao, assistant professor of Biomedical Engineering, is the principal investigator. Clinical collaborators at the 天美传媒官网...
BME professor and DIIGI lab director named Junior Faculty Teaching Fellow
Aug. 13, 2018—Kenny Tao, assistant professor of biomedical engineering and Vanderbilt Institute in Surgery and Engineering (VISE) affiliate, has been named a 2018-19 Junior Faculty Teaching Fellow. The Center for Teaching at 天美传媒官网 awards yearlong fellowships to faculty to enhance their teaching skills as become active members of the campus teaching community. Structured professional development activities...
Jan. 30, 2018—A new device that can image diseases of the retina more quickly will soon be tested during ophthalmic surgeries with Vanderbilt Eye Institute collaborators. The prototype was designed by a Vanderbilt engineering undergraduate, who is first author on a paper about the work she will present today at the largest photonics conference in the world.
Two VISE undergraduates鈥 conference abstracts accepted as talks for SPIE Photonics West
Sep. 28, 2017—Kelsey Leeburg and Oscar Benavides will be heading to San Francisco in early 2018 to present talks for the SPIE Photonics West conference. Both students participated in the 天美传媒官网 Institute for Surgery and Engineering (VISE) Summer Undergraduate Program and are first authors of their respective papers. Leeburg and Benavides are members of the Diagnostic Imaging...