Student Paper Finalists

Congratulations to the Student Paper Finalists listed below! 

Group 1

WINNER

1392
SVD Beamforming for Ultrafast Aberration Correction and Real-Time Speed-of-Sound Quantification
Hanna Bendjador
Physics for Medicine Paris, ESPCI, 
PSL Research University, INSERM, CNRS
Paris, France

2455
Non-Invasive Optogenetic Activation with Functional Ultrasound
Christian Aurup
Columbia University
New York, New York, USA

1500
Transcranial Histotripsy Initiates Immune Cascade in Murine Glioblastoma Tumors and Prolongs Survival
Sarah Duclos
Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

WINNER

1197
Photoacoustic Imaging of Organ Fibrosis
Eno Hysi
Department of Physics
Ryerson University 
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

2352
4D Flow and Wall Shear Stress Using Volumetric Ultrasound Image Velocimetry
Kai Riemer
Department of Bioengineering
Imperial College London
London, United Kingdom

1762
Determinants of the Propagation Velocity of Natural Shear Waves in Cardiac Shear Wave elastography
Stéphanie Bézy
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven 
Belgium 

Group 2

1233
Photoacoustic tomography system using a ring-array sensor for early detection of inflammatory arthritis in a human finger
Misaki Nishiyama
Graduate School of Medicine
Kyoto University
Kyoto, Japan

1492
Tracking Performance in Ultrasound Super-Resolution Imaging
Iman Taghavi
Department of Health Technology
Technical University of Denmark (DTU) 
Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark

WINNER

2301
Enabling fast charging lithium ion batteries with surface acoustic wave devices
An Huang
Department of Material Science and Engineering
University of California San Diego
San Diego, California, USA
 

Group 3

2299
Mechanical four-Wave Mixing in GHz phononic Circuit on thin-Film Lithium Niobate on Sapphire
Wentao Jiang
Ginzton Laboratory
Stanford University
Stanford, California, USA

2235
An Aluminum Nitride (AlN) Based Elastic Metamaterial with Guided Negative Refractio
Yanbo He
Purdue University 
Indiana, USA

WINNER

1401
Ultrasound full-Waveform Inversion with Accurate Transducer Characterisation
Carlos Cueto
Department of Bioengineering
Imperial College London
London, United Kingdom
 

Group 4

1336
High Frequency Solidly Mounted Resonator Using Ln Single Crystal Thin Plate
Kohei Matsumoto
Department of Robotics
Tohoku University
Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

WINNER

2056
A 14.5 GHz Lithium Niobate Acoustic Filter with Fractional Bandwidth of 2.93%
Liuqing Gao
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 
Urbana, Illinois, USA

2275
Fast Simulation Method of Distributed Nonlinearities in Surface Acoustic Wave Resonators
Marta González-Rodríguez
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) 
Barcelona, Spain
 

Group 5

2406
A 2D Ultrasonic Transmit Phased Array Based on a 32x32 CMUT Array Flip-Chip Bonded to an ASIC for Neural Stimulation
Chunkyun Seok
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
NC State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA

1161
High-performance transparent ferroelectric crystals for photoacoustic transducer applications 
Chaorui Qiu
Electronic Materials Research Laboratory 
Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China

WINNER

2012
Laser Sensor Guided Intravascular Catheter with Ring Type Stack Transducer for Sonothrombolysis 
Bohua Zhang
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
NC State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA