About Me

Hi! I am Wanwen Chen (陈婉雯). I am currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Prisman Lab at Vancouver General Hospital. I completed my Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia, supervised by Dr. Tim Salcudean.

My research focuses on ultrasound and surgical guidance systems for transoral robotic surgery, using deep learning pipelines for ultrasound, MRI, and CT to bring image-guided interventions closer to the clinic.

I hold an M.S. in Robotics from the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon (advised by Dr. John Galeotti) and a B.S. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from Peking University (advised by Dr. Qining Wang). I’ve also visited the Biomechatronics Lab at UCLA under Dr. Veronica J. Santos (2018), and interned at Intuitive Surgical (sensing tools for the Ion platform) and Prenuvo Inc. (AI-based MRI analysis).

You can find my CV here.

Outside research, I’m usually running, swimming, at the gym, or in the mountains skiing or hiking.