Rate My Professor Han Yuan

Han Yuan is an Associate Professor in the Stephenson School of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Oklahoma. He received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 2010, with a dissertation titled "Functional imaging of rhythmic brain activity during movement and motor imagination," which was nominated for the Best Dissertation Award in his department. He earned his B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, in 2005. After his Ph.D., Yuan completed a postdoctoral associateship at the Laureate Institute for Brain Research in Tulsa, Oklahoma, from 2011 to 2013. He then served as a Staff Scientist at the same institute until 2015 and as a Research Fellow in the Department of Surgery at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center from 2014 to 2015. He joined the University of Oklahoma as an Assistant Professor in August 2015 and advanced to Associate Professor.

Yuan's research focuses on neuroimaging and neuromodulation technologies, including multimodal brain imaging with EEG, functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), and fMRI, as well as electrical and magnetic stimulation techniques. He develops imaging methods to identify biomarkers for neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders such as PTSD, depression, and glioma. As Director of the Laboratory for Integrated Neuroimaging and Neuromodulation, he leads projects investigating brain resting-state networks, functional connectivity, and neural co-activations. Notable publications include "Reconstructing Large-scale Brain Resting State Networks from High-Resolution EEG: Spatial and Temporal Comparisons with fMRI" (Brain Connectivity, 2016), "Brain-Computer Interfaces using Sensorimotor Rhythms: Current State and Future Perspectives" (IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 2014), "Postsurgical Perilesional Functional Connectivity Predicts Neurological Outcome in Glioma Patients" (Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2026), and "Controlling Jaw-Related Motion Artifacts in Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy" (Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 2023). Yuan has received the Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship and NIH Neuro-physical-computational Sciences Graduate Training Fellowship from the University of Minnesota. He serves as Research Project Leader for the Oklahoma Center for Medical Imaging and Clinical Research (OCMICR) COBRE and collaborates on significant grants, including a $12 million DARPA-funded project on brain stimulation.