Lihong Wang, the Andrew and Peggy Cherng Medical Engineering Leadership Chair and the Bren Professor of Medical Engineering and Electrical Engineering at Caltech, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM). Election to the NAM is among the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine and “recognizes individuals who have demonstrated outstanding professional achievement and commitment to service,” according to a release from the NAM.

Wang, who is also the executive officer for medical engineering at Caltech, is a recognized leader in the field of biomedical imaging. His group has developed a variety of imaging techniques, including compressed ultrafast photography—a technique that enabled the world’s fastest camera, which can now capture 210 trillion frames per second… Continue reading.