William Chun Yip Lo

Dissertation Title:  Microscopic Image Guidance: Real-time Thermal Therapy Monitoring for Epithelial Lesions PhD Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. Brett Bouma, Wellman Center for Photomedicine/ Center for Biomedical OCT Research and Translation, Massachusetts General Hospital

William C. Y. Lo entered Harvard as an MD-PhD candidate at Harvard Medical School.  He pursued his PhD degree in the joint Harvard-MIT Medical Engineering and Medical Physics program through Harvard Biophysics with the guidance of Professor Brett Bouma (and co-advisor Professor Benjamin Vakoc) at Massachusetts General Hospital, who founded the NIH-funded Center for Biomedical OCT Research and Translation.  He obtained his bachelor of applied science degree in computer engineering and his MSc degree in medical biophysics from the University of Toronto, where he worked with Professor Lothar Lilge and Professor Jonathan Rose on high-performance computing for photodynamic therapy planning using custom FPGA hardware and graphics processors with CUDA.