Rate My Professor Ken Kang-Hsin Wang

Ken Kang-Hsin Wang, Ph.D., DABR, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, with a joint appointment in the Biomedical Engineering Program. Recruited in 2020 as a CPRIT Scholar in Cancer Research, he leads the Biomedical Imaging and Radiation Technology Lab (BIRTLab), dedicated to innovating biomedical imaging and radiation technologies for cancer research. The lab's multidisciplinary efforts encompass medical physics, biomedical optics, radiation therapy, computational modeling, engineering, and biology, translating developments to empower the scientific community in pursuing cancer cures. Wang earned his B.Sc. in Physics from National Central University, Taiwan (2001), and Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Rochester (2008), where his doctoral work focused on photodynamic therapy. He completed postdoctoral training and a medical physics residency, serving as Chief Resident, at the University of Pennsylvania. From 2012 to 2020, he was Senior Clinical Physicist, Dosimetry Supervisor, and Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, advancing optical tomography-guided radiation therapy and leading stereotactic radiation services.

Wang's research interests include biomedical optics, in vivo cell tracking, optical tomography-guided radiation therapy, and ultra-high-dose rate irradiation. His influential publications feature "In vivo bioluminescence tomography-guided system for pancreatic cancer radiotherapy research" (2024), "Dose evaluation of inter- and intra-fraction prostate motion in extremely hypofractionated intensity-modulated proton therapy for prostate cancer" (2023), "Quantitative molecular bioluminescence tomography" (2022), "Deep-Tissue Activation of Photonanomedicines: An Update and Clinical Perspectives" (2022), and "Bioluminescence tomography system for in vivo irradiation guidance" (2022). He has garnered awards including the CPRIT Scholar in Cancer Research (2020), Frederick Urbach Memorial Travel Award (2005), and 3rd Place Best Young Investigator Talk at the Small Animal Precision Image-Guided RadioTherapy conference (2016). Board-certified by the American Board of Radiology, Wang contributes to professional organizations such as the American Association of Physicists in Medicine and SPIE.