Rate My Professor Yuanyuan Gao

Dr. Yuanyuan Gao is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering in the College of Engineering at Wichita State University. She leads the Neuroimaging Lab, which focuses on technology development for optical neuroimaging and its clinical applications. Gao obtained her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2020, M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Beihang University in Beijing, China in 2013, and B.S. in Aircraft Environment and Life Security Engineering from Beihang University in 2010. Her career includes a Post-doctoral Fellowship in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University from March 2023 to June 2024, Post-doctoral Associate position in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Boston University from November 2020 to February 2023, Visiting Scholar role in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University at Buffalo from February to October 2019, and Researcher position at Harvard Medical School from February to August 2016.

Gao's research specializations include neuroimaging, computational neuroimaging, clinical neuroimaging, optical neuroimaging, functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), optical simulation, neuromodulation, human motor learning, motor function recovery, machine and deep learning, and biostatistics. She has authored key publications such as "Deep learning-based motion artifact removal in functional near-infrared spectroscopy" (Neurophotonics, 2022), "A machine learning approach to predict surgical learning curves" (Surgery, 2020), "Functional brain imaging reliably predicts bimanual motor skill performance in a standardized surgical task" (IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 2021), "Short-separation regression incorporated diffuse optical tomography image reconstruction modeling for high-density functional near-infrared spectroscopy" (Neurophotonics, 2023), and "Decreasing the surgical errors by neurostimulation of primary motor cortex and the associated brain activation via neuroimaging" (Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2021). Her scholarship has accumulated over 385 citations on Google Scholar, impacting fields like brain imaging and surgical training. Gao has delivered public lectures at Wichita State University, including on functional neuroimaging and study design.