Chris Xu

Professor; The Mong Family Foundation Director, Cornell Neurotech—Engineering
Applied and Engineering Physics, College of Engineering

Contact Information

276 Clark Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
p: (607) 255-1460

Chris Xu

Professor; The Mong Family Foundation Director, Cornell Neurotech—Engineering
Applied and Engineering Physics, College of Engineering

Expertise

Optical imaging; fiber optics; telecom technology

Current Research Interest

Biomedical imaging and fiber optics, especially neural imaging, microscopy of the mouse brain, and endoscopy for disease diagnosis

Distinction

Cornell Engineering Research Excellence Award
National Academy of Inventors Fellow
Optical Society of America Fellow
National Science Foundation CAREER Award
Tau Beta Pi Professor of the Year Award
Cornell Engineering Excellence in Teaching Award

Selected Publications

Ouzounov, Dimitre G., Tianyu Wang, Mengran Wang, Danielle D. Feng, Nicholas G. Horton, Jean C. Cruz-Hernández, Yu-Ting Cheng, Jacob Reimer, Andreas S. Tolias, Nozomi Nishimura, and Chris Xu. “In Vivo Three-Photon Imaging of Activity of GCaMP6-Labeled Neurons Deep in Intact Mouse Brain.” Nature Methods 14 (2017): 388-390.

Horton, Nicholas G., Ke Wang, Demirhan Kobat, Catharine G. Clark, Frank W. Wise, Chris B. Schaffer, and Chris Xu. “In Vivo Three-Photon Microscopy of Subcortical Structures within an intact Mouse Brain.” Nature Photonics 7 (2013).

Cornell Research Website Article

NeuroNex—a Radical Collaboration

Observing the Brain's Activities and More