Summary
Xin Tong is a research-focused engineer with 10 years of experience developing advanced optical and photoacoustic imaging systems, currently a Research Assistant at Caltech and consulting on clinical translation at City of Hope. He designs and builds quantum super-resolution and high-speed isotropic 3D photoacoustic tomography hardware while creating correlation-based and ML-empowered reconstruction algorithms for sub-shot-noise performance and non-invasive lesion detection. Xin has bridged academia and industry—briefly modeling light collection for AR displays at Meta—and brings hands-on skills across instrument engineering, computational imaging, and machine learning. Trained with a PhD in Medical and Electrical Engineering from Caltech and dual BS degrees in Physics and Economics from Peking University, he combines deep technical rigor with an eye for real-world clinical impact. An under-the-radar strength is his ability to move between optical hardware design and algorithmic innovation, accelerating systems from prototype to translational studies.
10 years of coding experience