Dr. Guoan Zheng is currently the UTC Associate Professor at the University of Connecticut (UConn). He also serves as the Director of the UConn Center for Biomedical and Bioengineering Innovation (CBBI). His research interests include biomedical instrumentation, computational imaging, ptychography, microscopy, and chip-scale imaging solutions. 

Dr. Zheng received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Zhejiang University in 2007, his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Caltech in 2008 and his Ph.D. in 2013, where he was honored with the Caltech Demetriades Thesis Prize. Dr. Zheng is recognized for his pioneering work on Fourier ptychography, which has been adopted worldwide and become a standard tool in microscopy imaging. Notably, this technique also became a chapter in “Introduction to Fourier Optics (4th edition)”, the most widely-read textbook on Fourier optics. Dr. Zheng’s contributions have resulted in the publication of one book and more than 130 peer-reviewed articles, including those in top-tier journals such as Nature Photonics, Nature Reviews Physics, Nature Protocols, Light: Science & Applications, and PNAS. His research has been cited over 13,000 times, with an h-index of 60 (Google Scholar profile). Dr. Zheng has been listed in the World's Top 2% Scientists released by Stanford University in both Single-Year and Career tracks. 

Dr. Zheng serves as the faculty advisor for the Optica, SPIE, and Engineering World Health UConn chapters. He also serves as the Senior Editor of PhotoniX, Associate Editors of Biomedical Optics Express and Frontiers of Photonics, Deputy Editor of Advanced Imaging, Advisory Editor of Biophotonics Discovery, Guest Editor of IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging and IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, the chair of the Optics Study Group of the IEEE Synthetic Aperture Standards Committee, and the co-chair of the conference, Computational Optical Imaging and Artificial Intelligence in Biomedical Sciences, in SPIE Photonics West. He is also an elected member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering.