Dr. Hong Du received his bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in physics from a top university in China (the University of Science and Technology of China) majoring in nuclear physics and instrumentation. He participated in multiple scientific projects including x-ray scattering and laser based thermal fusion. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Miami in Florida, specializing in light scattering and observations in the atmosphere. He went to the University of Michigan as a postdoc to conduct X-ray imaging using amorphous silicon flat panel imagers and photoconductors. Currently, he is working as a medical physicist using electron beams, x-rays and gamma rays to treat cancer.

Dr. Du has a solid and systematic theoretical foundation thanks to his college education, as well as having extensive experience in software and hardware engineering in scientific instrumentation. He has considerable hands-on knowledge dealing with elementary particles on a daily basis.

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