Summary
Cecil Yen is an imaging facility scientist and MRI physicist with 11 years of hands-on experience designing and operating multimodal preclinical imaging platforms, currently managing a Bruker MRI, Inveon PET/CT, and Zeiss two-photon microscope at the NIH. He combines deep technical skills in MRI sequence programming, coil design (including multiple surface and cryogenic arrays), and spectrometer maintenance with practical lab leadership—designing wet/dry/radiation spaces and overseeing facility personnel and projects. Cecil has logged over 4,500 hours on 4.7T–14T preclinical magnets across species from mice to macaques, developing standardized marmoset connectome protocols and analysis pipelines. A practiced instructor and collaborator, he has trained postdocs and students while bridging multidisciplinary investigators and institutional leadership. His background in electrical engineering and bioengineering, plus experience in robotics-enabled neurosurgery, gives him a rare blend of hardware, software, and biological expertise applied to translational neurovascular research.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Bioengineering, PhD Bioengineering at University of Pittsburgh
BS Physics, BS Physics at National Tsing Hua University
Chinese, English