Hoan Ngo Laboratory
Advanced Diagnostics for Health
PI: Hoan Thanh Ngo, Ph.D.
Bachelor: Bach Khoa University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Master's: Korea Maritime University, Busan, South Korea
Ph.D.: Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA
Postdoc: Duke Eye Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
& Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Research Interests: Biosensors, Biophotonics, Medical Instrumentation, Point-of-Care Diagnostic Devices, Artificial Intelligence for Health
Dr. Hoan Thanh Ngo did his undergraduate in Mechatronics at Bach Khoa University of Vietnam National Universities in Ho Chi Minh City. After graduation, he went abroad to South Korea for a 2-year Master’s program in Control and Instrumentation. He then returned to Vietnam to teach for undergraduate students at International University and helped Dr. Toi Van Vo, an Emeritus Professor of Tufts University (MA, USA) and former Executive Director of Vietnam Education Foundation, to set up the first undergraduate Biomedical Engineering (BME) program in Vietnam at International University in early 2009.
In 2011, he went to Duke University in the USA in the US for Ph.D. study in BME, with specialization in Biophotonics. Under supervision of Dr. Tuan Vo-Dinh, he conducted doctoral research on development of novel nanobiosensors and integrated devices for molecular diagnosis of infectious diseases and cancer. He then did postdoctoral training with Dr. Joseph Izatt at Duke BME and Dr. Cynthia Toth at Duke Eye Center on Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) for ophthalmology.
In 2018, he went back to Vietnam to serve as Vice Chair of BME Dept. and then Chair of the Medical Instrumentation Department and Co-head of the Clinical Engineering Laboratory, School of Biomedical Engineering, International University, Vietnam National Universities in Ho Chi Minh City.
In 2021, Dr. Hoan went to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, USA to conduct his second Postdoctoral training in Professor Jeff Wang's lab at the Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University.
Dr. Hoan's research interest is concerned with the development of technologies and systems for precision medical diagnosis and treatment by leveraging advances in Biosensors, Biophotonics, Lab-on-a-chip, and Artificial Intelligence-for-Health. Dr. Hoan's works have been published on Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group), Biosensors and Bioelectronics, Nanoscale, Analytical Chemistry...and cited more than 1,185 times by researchers from all over the world (as of October 2023).
Currently, Dr. Hoan is an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Florida Southern College, Lakeland, Florida, the oldest four-year private college in the state of Florida, USA.