DrYuchen Xiang

Dr. Yuchen Xiang completed his undergraduate study at Imperial College London, where he went on to pursue a PhD in Optics & Photonics. After being appointed Assistant Professor in 2025 through the HighTech Agenda programme in Germany, his research group now focuses on the integration of light-based technologies to construct ‘smart’ systems that are greater than the sum of their parts.

With over 8 years in Biophotonics, he excels in crafting robust systems that merge cutting-edge hardware and software to enhance performance, efficiency, and reliability for biomedical imaging and analysis. This is evidenced by his research output to-date, accumulating more than 20 conference and journal publications addressing development of imaging and spectroscopy systems in interdisciplinary settings, demonstrating integration innovations across optical physics, mass spectrometry and bioinformatics.

This philosophy has most recently been recognised by the award of the BBSRC Develop Basic Technologies in Sensing and Imaging funding, as his latest research idea explores physically explainable AI for label-free imaging of fast-moving cells. His other research interests currently include development of novel spectral imaging methods (Brillouin, Raman, Ion spectroscopy) for biomedical research, Bioinformatics and ML approaches to multi-modal data integration.