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Huabei Jiang, Ph.D.
Huabei Jiang Brings High Expectations to the New Medical Engineering Department By Brad Stager
H
uabei Jiang is enthusiastic
the department. “We designed the labs
of hope and had a dream to be able to
about what lies ahead for
ourselves so we can be more productive.”
do world-class research.”
Florida’s new Department of Medical
Productivity has a lot to do with how
That dream became a goal in life
Engineering. The department, a
Jiang became a well-known biomedical
while growing up in Szechuan, China
collaboration between the College of
researcher. He has two doctoral
and reading a biography of the great
Engineering and the USF Morsani
degrees, a Ph.D. in electronic physics
American inventor Thomas Edison.
College of Medicine, now has a home
from the University of Electronic
in the Tampa campus’ Interdisciplinary
Science and Technology of China and
“I was really excited,” said Jiang. “He
Sciences Building with its own suite of
another in Biomedical Engineering
had so many inventions. I was very
labs, dedicated to the kind of training
from Dartmouth University, which he
inspired.”
and research unique to biomedical
completed in three years.
the University of South
engineering.
Jiang also finds inspiration in the “I just worked very, very hard,” said
work to be done in the biomedical
“The new space is fantastic,” said Jiang,
Jiang. “No weekends, no holidays for
engineering field, which was just getting
who is the first faculty member hired in
those three years. I was young and full
established when he entered it.
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