Dr. Tian is a native of China who received the B.S. and M.S.
degrees in Electrical Engineering from Tsinghua University in
Beijing. In 1995 she moved to the United States to study at Princeton
University where she conducted research on ultrafast laser spectroscopy
and optoelectronic devices. She received her Ph.D. in Electrical
Engineering from Princeton University in 2003. After her doctoral
work she joined the staff of the Applied Optics Laboratory of
the General Electric Global Research Center in Niskayuna, NY where
she worked on developing optical imaging technologies for biomedical
applications. In 2005 she moved back to academia as an assistant
project scientist in the Department of Neurosciences at the University
of California, San Diego, where she started working on brain imaging
using optical methods.
Dr. Tian joined the faculty of John Carroll University in August
2009 as an assistant professor in the physics department. She
is interested in advancing optical imaging methods in biomedical
applications.
