Dr. Tao Sun is an Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, as well as Electrical and Computer Engineering (Affiliated), and a core faculty member of the Institute for Chemical Imaging of Living Systems (CILS) at Northeastern University. He joined Northeastern in 2023 following postdoctoral training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (Bioengineering), where he later served as an Instructor at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Sun is widely recognized for his pioneering work at the intersection of focused ultrasound, drug delivery, cancer immunoengineering, and neuroimaging. He is the recipient of several prestigious honors and awards, including the NIH NIGMS R35 Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA), the Young Investigator Award from the Focused Ultrasound Foundation (2022), and the Acoustical Society of America (2021). His interdisciplinary research has been published in leading journals such as PNAS, Science Translational Medicine, Advanced Materials, Journal of Controlled Release, Applied Physics Letters, and Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews. His work has also been featured in major science and technology outlets, including WIRED, Science Daily, and Medical Xpress.