Faculty
Tingting Li, Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering of Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech). She received the Ph.D. degree from SUSTech in 2023. Her main research interests include the fast, large-field-of-view, and high-resolution photoacoustic imaging technologies, the multi-modal optical imaging systems, and optical imaging in clinical applications. To date, she has published 24 SCI-indexed papers in internationally renowned journals such as Nature Communications, Laser & Photonics Reviews, Optics Letters, Advanced Functional Materials, Advanced Science, and Biomedical Optics Express, including 11 first-author or corresponding-author publications. She has applied and granted 4 patents.
She has chaired the Young Scientists Fund Project (C) of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and Doctoral Scientific Research Staring Foundation by Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Committee. Additionally, she serves as a key member or core participant in 7 research projects.
EDUCATION
2018.09～2022.07 Ph.D., University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
2015.09～2018.07 Master, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
2011.09～2015.07 Bachelor, Anhui University of Technology
WORKING AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2025.07-Now Research Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
2023.07-2025.07 Postdoctoral
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
2018.04-2019.08 Research Assistant
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
2017.07-2018.03 Software Engineer
HOKAI, Zhuhai, China
HORNORS AND AWARDS
1. Outstanding graduate, Southern University of Science and Technology, 2023
2. National Scholarship, Southern University of Science and Technology, 2022
3. Outstanding Student Report Award, The Chinese Optical Society, 2021
EXTERNAL GRANTS
1. Funding source: Young Scientists Fund (C) of National Science Foundation of China , 2026.01-2028.12, PI
Title:Research on Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Ultrafast Photoacoustic
Functional Brain Imaging Technology
Amount: ￥0.3 Million
2. Funding source: Doctoral Scientific Research Staring Foundation by Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Committee, 2024.06-2029.06, PI
Title:Photoacoustic Expansion microscopy for subcellular structural imaging
Amount: ￥0.3 Million
3. Funding source: The Key Program of National Science Foundation of China, 2025.01-2029.12, Core Member
Title: Multi-parametric, large field of view and high-speed photoacoustic endometrial microscopy
Amount: ￥2.31 Million
4. Funding source: National Key Research and Development Program of China, 2024.12-2029.11, Core Member
Title: Critical challenges in multimodal optical in vivo brain imaging
Amount: ￥14.3 Million
5. Funding source: Key Program by Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Committee, 2024.12-2027.12, Core Member
Title: Research on Novel Rapid Whole-Brain High-Resolution Imaging Technology and Method
Amount: ￥2.0 Million
6. Funding source: Shenzhen Medical Research Fund Committee, 2025.01-2027.12, Core Member
Title: Study of neurovascular coupling in Alzheimer’s disease based on optical imaging technology
Amount: ￥3.0 Million
7. Funding source: Key Program by Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Committee, 2024.01-2026.12, Core Member
Title: Ultra-large field-of-view photoacoustic endoscopy
Amount: ￥1.0 Million
8. Funding source: General Program by Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Committee, 2022.08-2025.07, Core Member
Title: Microwave thermoacoustic imaging under artificial metasurface control and its application in early diagnosis of breast cancer
Amount: ￥0.3 Million
9. Funding source: General Program by Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Committee, 2018.01-2020.12, Core Member
Title: Microwave thermoacoustic imaging for detecting cerebral hemorrhage
Amount: ￥0.23 Million
PUBLICATIONS (JOURNAL) (*Corresponding author, #equal contributors)
1. Wei Qin#, Tingting Li#, Linyang Li#, Tian Jin, Baochen Li, Weizhi Qi, Yifan Chen, Haoyang Li, Shijie Ruan, Heng Guo, Xiao Liang, Lei Xi*, A cortex-wide multimodal microscope for simultaneous Ca2+ and hemodynamic imaging in the awake mouse, Nature communications, Accepted.
2. Tingting Li#, Heng Guo#, Ye Liu#, Weizhi Qi, Changfeng Wu, Lei Xi*, All-in-One Photoacoustic Theranostics Using Multi-Functional Nanoparticles, Advanced Functional Materials, 2022, 32(6), 2107624.
3. Tingting Li#, Xinrui Gong#, Heng Guo, Lei Xi*, Photoacoustic expansion microscopy of melanosomes, Optics Letters, 2024, 49(4), 798-801.
4. Wei Qin#, Tingting Li#, Yifan Chen#, Xiao Liang, Linyang Li, Heng Guo, Weizhi Qi*, Lei Xi*, High-efficiency photoacoustic microscopy for ultrafast hemodynamic imaging, Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2025, 2401545, doi: 10.1002/lpor.202401545. Publish Online
5. Yuanlong Zhao, Tingting Li*, Heng Guo, Rui Hu, Lei Xi*, Long-term Assessment of Cutaneous Inflammation and Treatment using Optical Resolution Photoacoustic Microscopy, Biomedical Optics Express, 2023, 174(9), 4775-4789.
6. Jun Wang#, Tingting Li#, Jen-shyang Ni#, Heng Guo, Tianyi Kang, Zeshun Li, Menglei Zha, Songbo Lu, Chen Zhang, Weizhi Qi, Lei Xi*, Kai Li*, Photoacoustic Force-Guided Precise and Fast Delivery of Nanomedicine with Boosted Therapeutic Efficacy, Advanced Science, 2021, 8(16), 2100228.
7. Zeshun Li#, Tingting Li#, Chen Zhang#, Jen-shyang Ni, Yaoyao Ji, Aihui Sun, Dinglu Peng, Weijun Wu, Lei Xi*, Kai Li*, A multispectral Photoacoustic Tracking Strategy for Wide-field and Realtime Monitoring of Macrophages in Inflammation, Analytical Chemistry, 2021, 93(24), 8467-8475.
8. Weizhi Qi#, Tingting Li#, Chen Zhang#, Fei Liu, Jun Wang, Dandan Chen, Xiaofeng Fang, Changfeng Wu*, Kai Li*, Lei Xi*, Light-Controlled Precise Delivery of NIR-Responsive Semiconducting Polymer Nanoparticles with Promoted Vascular Permeability, Advanced Healthcare Materials, 2021, 10(9), 2100569.
9. Huilin Xie#, Chen Zhang#, Tingting Li#, Lianrui Hu, Jianquan Zhang, Heng Guo, Zhao Liu, Dinglu Peng, Zeshun Li, Weijun Wu, Ji Gao, Zhenyu Bi, Jinghan Wang, Pengfei Zhang, Ryan T. K. Kwok, Jacky W. Y. Lam, Zhihong Guo, Lei Xi*, Kai Li*, Ben Zhong Tang*, Fast Delivery of Multifunctional NIR-II Theranostic Nanoaggregates Enabled by the Photoinduced Thermoacoustic Process, Advanced Science, 2023, 10(19), 2301104.
10. Ziyi Xu#, Mingkun Lv#, Jingkai Yang#, Tingting Li#, Jiahui Lv, Jiaxin Li, Hongjun Xiao, Yicheng Yang, Siyu Zhou, Xuan Tan, Li Cheng, Heng Guo, Lei Xi*, Pan-Lin Shao*, Bo Zhang*, An efficient heat and peroxynitrite generating nanoplatform for multimodal imaging-guided precision tumor phototherapy, Aggregate, 2025, e70040, doi: 10.1002/agt2.70040. Publish Online
11. Lin Huang#, Tingting Li#, Huabei Jiang*, Technical Note: Thermoacoustic imaging of hemorrhagic stroke: A feasibility study with a human skull, Medical Physics, 2017, 44(4), 1494-1499.
12. Xiao Liang#, Yuanlong Zhao#, Linyang Li, Hongdian Sun, Wei Qin, Tingting Li , Heng Guo, Weizhi Qi, Lei Xi*, Non-telecentric photoacoustic microscopy for multi-scale imaging, Photoacoustics, 2025, 45, 100750.
13. Yujie Wang#, Linyang Li#, Weizhi Qi, Wei Qin, Tian Jin, Tingting Li, Pavel Subochev, Lei Xi*, Non-telecentric photoacoustic microscopy for multi-scale imaging, Optics Letters, 2024, 49(10), 2637-2640.
14. Linyang Li#, Wei Qin#, Tingting Li, Junning Zhang, Baochen Li, Lei Xi*, High-speed Adaptive Photoacoustic Microscopy, Photonics Research, 2023. 11(12), 2084-2092.
15. Qiang Liu, Xiao Liang, Tingting Li, Weian Chao, Weizhi Qi, Tian Jin, Yubin Gong, Huabei Jiang, Lei Xi*, Split ring resonator topology based microwave induced thermoacoustic imaging (SRR-MTAI), IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2023, 42(8), 3250647.
16. Heng Guo#, Qian Chen#, Tingting Li, Desheng Sun, Lei Xi*, Photoacoustic-triggered nanomedicine delivery to internal organs using a dual-wavelength laparoscope, Journal of Biophotonics, 2022, 15(9), e202200116.
17. Aihui Sun#, Yaoyao Ji#, Yaxi Li, Wenhui Xie, Zhihe Liu, Tingting Li, Tian Jin, Weizhi Qi, Kai Li, Changfeng Wu, Lei Xi*, Multi-color Photoacoustic volumetric imaging of subcellular structures, ACS Nano, 2022, 16(2), 3231-3238.
18. Yongchao Wang#, Ruoxi Zhang#, Qian Chen, Heng Guo, Xiao Liang, Tingting Li, Weizhi Qi, Lei Xi*, Visualization of blood-brain barrier disruption with dual-wavelength high-resolution photoacoustic microscopy, Biomedical Optics Express, 2022, 13(3), 1537-1550.
19. Xiaoxia Song, Rongxin Qian, Tingting Li, Wei Fu, Lijun Fang, Yuzhen Cai, Heng Guo, Lei Xi, U Kei Cheang*, Imaging-Guided Biomimetic M1 Macrophage Membrane-Camouflaged Magnetic Nanorobots for Photothermal Immunotargeting Cancer Therapy, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2022, 14(51), 56548-56559.
20. Aihui Sun, Tingting Li, Tian Jin, Yaxi Li, Kai Li, Chaolong Song, Lei Xi*, Acoustic Standing Wave Aided Multiparametric Photoacoustic Imaging Flow Cytometry, Analytical Chemistry, 2021, 93(44), 14820-14827.
21. Tianyi Kang#, Jen-Shyang Ni#, Tingting Li, Jun Wang, Zeshun Li, Yaxi Li, Menglei Zha, Chen Zhang, Xue Wu, Heng Guo, Lei Xi, Kai Li*, Efficient and Precise Delivery of MicroRNA by Photoacoustic Force Generated from Semiconducting Polymer-Based Nanocarriers, Biomaterials, 2021, 275, 120907.
22. Yanan Gao, Zhihua Li, Yin Hong, Tingting Li, Xiaoyan Hu, Luyao Sun, Zhengchang Chen, Zijian Chen, Zhiheng Luo, Xin Wang, Jian Kong, Guanglei Li, Hsing-Lin Wang, Hwa Liang Leo, Hanry Yu, Lei Xi, Qiongyu Guo*, Decellularized liver as a translucent ex vivo model for vascular embolization evaluation, Biomaterials, 2020, 240, 119855.
23. Fei Liu#, Tian Jin#, Ruopeng Yan, Tingting Li, Biao Hu, Lei Yao, Tianye Huang, Chaolong Song*, Lei Xi*, An opto-acousto-fluidic microscopic system with a high spatiotemporal resolution for microfluidic applications, Optics Express, 2019, 27(2), 1425-1432.
24. Zhihui Chi, Yuan Zhao, Jinge Yang, Tingting Li, Guang Zhang, Huabei Jiang*, Thermoacoustic Tomography of In Vivo Human Finger Joints, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 2019, 66(6), 1598-1608.
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
1. 李婷婷，齊偉智，吳長鋒*，奚磊*，基于光聲效應的藥物遞送和腫瘤診療研究，BPC 2022. (Oral Presentation)
2. Tingting Li, Xinrui Gong, Weizhi Qi, Lei Xi*, Ultrafast Random-Access Scanning Photoacoustic Microscopy, PIBM 2021. (Poster+Oral Presentation)
3. 李婷婷，齊偉智，王俊，康天懌，吳長鋒*，李凱*，奚磊*，基于光聲精準遞送納米粒子的腫瘤診療，COS 2021. (Poster)
PATENTS
1. Issued CN Patent, 奚磊, 王永超, 郭恒, 張若曦, 李婷婷, 基于雙波長光聲顯微成像的血腦屏障損傷評估裝置及方法, ZL 202111083736.6, 2023-09-01
2. Pending CN Patent, 奚磊, 李婷婷, 郭恒, 齊偉智, 一種光聲顯微成像診療裝置及其使用方法, 202011615857.6, 2020-12-30
3. Pending CN Patent, 奚磊, 李婷婷, 齊偉智, 一種基于隨機訪問掃描的光聲顯微成像裝置及方法, 202311350742.2, 2023-10-18
4. Pending CN Patent, 奚磊, 王玉潔, 李林陽, 偉智, 秦偉, 李婷婷, 基于無級調節中繼光路的多尺度光聲顯微鏡及其成像方法 202410208119.1 2024-02-26