Dr. Yaguang Ren is an Associate Professor at the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT), Chinese Academy of Sciences. She earned her Master’s degree in Optical Engineering from Tianjin University in 2013, specializing in high-precision optical metrology using white-light interferometry and fiber-optic sensing. She completed her Ph.D. in Bioengineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2014–2018), developing advanced MRI reconstruction algorithms. Subsequently, as a short-term visiting scholar in the Department of Life Science, she developed novel TIR-FRET methodologies for single-molecule detection. Since joining SIAT in January 2019, Dr. Ren has led research on theoretical and algorithmic innovations in multi-scale low-rank sparse reconstruction for cardiac photoacoustic imaging, bridging computational physics with clinical diagnostics. Her work includes over 10 SCI publications (e.g., first-author papers in JACS, Advanced Materials) and 9 patents in optical imaging technologies.