Tyler K. Hornsby is a Medical Physicist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology at Duke University. He received his B.Sc. degree in Physics with a minor in Nanoscience from the University of Calgary (Calgary, AB, Canada) in 2017, followed by his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Biomedical Physics and CAMPEP Medical Physics from Toronto Metropolitan University (Toronto, ON, Canada) in 2019 and 2023, respectively. From 2023 to 2025, he completed his residency in Radiation Oncology Physics through McGill University stationed at St. Peter’s Hospital in Albany, New York. He joined Duke in 2025 and works clinically in high dose rate gynecological brachytherapy, low dose rate eye plaque brachytherapy and intraoperative radiation therapy. His research interests include noninvasive ultrasound thermometry, therapeutic ultrasound hyperthermia, high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU), nanoparticle-based drug delivery systems, targeted chemotherapy and combination therapy.