Dr. Pingkun Yan worked as a post-doctoral researcher under Dr. Mubarak Shah’s supervision from June 2005 to December 2007.
He has since worked at Philips Research as a Senior Member Research Staff and Clinical Site Senior Scientist & Project Leader; Chinese Academy of Sciences as a Research Professor; and NIH as a Special Volunteer before joining Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as an Assistant Professor in 2017.
Dr. Yan has worked his way up the ranks and was recently promoted to a full professor and appointed the department head of Biomedical Engineering at Rensselaer.