Scientific Advisor
kcheong@ntiplaw.com

Practice Focus and Experience
As a scientific advisor for Nguyen & Tarbet, Kit provides in-depth scientific analysis and consultations in the areas of physical sciences, optics, and electrical engineering.

Kit has conducted research in solid state physics, electronic structure of condensed matter, quantum optics, medical imaging, fiber optics, physical optics and light scattering. She has comprehensive, in-depth knowledge of physics and optics, as well as extensive hands-on experience with photonics equipments and optical components through her work in research laboratories. Her dissertation research is in medical image analysis. She analyzed and assessed the effectiveness of nanoparticle contrast agents in improving the performance of an optical coherence imaging modality for clinical diagnosis by using an analytical framework developed from statistical decision theory, which is the same theory employed in Radar detection.

Kit has also acquired valuable training in business, especially in the area of commercialization of innovations, through the completion of an Entrepreneurship program with certificate at the McGuire Entrepreneurship Program, Eller College of Management, University of Arizona. During the summer of 2007, she worked as an intern in the "Advanced Technology Transfer Project," a bi-national project organized by Eller College of Management, University of Arizona and Mexican National Science and Technology Council. She provided guidance on selection of technologies to a cross-disciplinary project team to develop market study for commercialization of technologies.

Representative Matters
Kit’s scientific background and intellectual property work includes subject matter such as:

• physical sciences and electrical engineering
• optics
• instrumentation in imaging modality
• photonics

Education

• University of Arizona (Ph.D., Optical Sciences)
• University of Arizona (M.S., Optical Sciences)
• University of Missouri, Kansas City (M.S., Physics)
• University of Arizona (Associate, Entrepreneurship Program)
• National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan (B.S., Physics)

Selected Publications

1. K. Cheong, J. Rolland, and E. Clarkson, "Detection of Abnormality in Biological Tissue Using Optical Coherence Tomography," submitted to SPIE International Symposium on Biomedical Optics 2008

2. K. Cheong, and E. Clarkson, “Detectability Study on OCT in the Presence of Speckle with Hotelling Observer,” 47th Annual Meeting of American Association of Physicists in Medicine, Seattle, WA, 2005

3. J. P. Rolland, J. O’Daniel, T. DeLemos, C. A. Akcay, K. S. Lee, K. Cheong, E. Clarkson, R. Chakrabarti, and R. Ferris “Task-based optimization and performance assessment in optical coherence imaging,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 22, 1132-1142 (2005)

4. K. Cheong, P. Jessen, “Raman Sideband Cooling in Optical Lattices,” 2nd Annual Workshop of the SQuInT (Southwest Quantum Information Technology) Network, Albuquerque, New Mexico, May 2000

5. E. S. Lee, C. Geckeler, J. Heurich, A Gupta, K. Cheong, S. Secrest, P. Meystre, “Dark states of dressed Bose-Einstein condensates,” Phys. Rev. A, 60, 4006 (1999)

6. J. Woo, C. Lee, D. Chin, C. Bartlett, K. Cheong, J. K. Erwin, M. Mansuripur, “Investigation of certain diffraction effects in an optical disk,” Appl. Opt. 36, 9287 (1997)

7. K. Cheong, D. Zhu, E. W. Hellmuth, “Thermal transport in a glassy polymer after being compressed at high pressure,” Journal of Non-crystalline Solids 204, 158 (1996)

8. D. Zhu, K. Cheong, “Thermal transport in densified amorphous solids,” Physica B 219 & 220, 317 (1996)

9. S. Tanigawa, P. K. Tseng, T. Kurihara, K. Cheong, K. Watanabe, T. Kubota, M. Tokumoto, N. Kinoshita, and H. Anzai, “Electronic structure of b-(BEDT-TTF)2I3 studied by positron annihilation,” in “The Physics and Chemistry of Organic Superconductors”, Springer Proceedings in Physics