CV

Education

• Ph.D. in Physics, University of Waterloo, 2017
• Bachelor of Science, Tianjin Univeristy of Tech, 2012

Work experience

• 2024-current, Assistant Professor, Duke-NUS Medical School

• 2023-current, Senior Research Fellow, Singapore Eye Research Institute

• 2020-2023, Research Fellow, Nanyang Technological University

• 2018-2020, Research Fellow, Singapore Eye Research Institute

Community Service

• I am a regular reviewer for many optics and ophthalmology journals, including Biomedical Optics Express, Optics Letters, IOVS, TVST, IEEE TMI, etc.

Selected Publications

1. Tan B, Shah J, McNabb RP, Jayaraman S, Wong D, Chua J, Ang M, Saw SM, Jonas JB, Kuo AN, Hoang QV, Schmetterer L, Distortion-corrected Posterior Ocular Shape in Myopia Eyes Assessed by Ultrawide OCT Detects Deformations Associated with Vision-Threatening Changes, Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci., 65(13), 22-22.
2. Bellemo V, Kumar Das A, Sreng S, Chua J, Wong D, Shah J, Jonas R, Tan B, Liu X, Xu X and Tan GSW, Liu Y, Schmetterer L. Optical coherence tomography choroidal enhancement using generative deep learning. NPJ Digit Med, 2024, 7(1), p.115.
3. Liu X, Jiang L, Ke M, Sigal IA, Chua J, Hoang QV, Chia AW, Najjar RP, Tan B, Cheong J, Bellemo V. Posterior scleral birefringence measured by triple-input polarization-sensitive imaging as a biomarker of myopia progression. Nature Biomed Eng. 2023 Jun 26:1-5.
4. Tan B, Li H, Zhuo Y, Han L, Mupparapu R, Nanni D, Barathi VA, Palanker D, Schmetterer L, Ling T, Light-evoked deformations in rod photoreceptors, pigment epithelium and subretinal space revealed by prolonged and multilayered optoretinography. 2024, Nature Comm, 15(1), 5156.
5. Tan B, Chua J, Wong D, Liu X, Ismail M, Schmetterer L., Techniques for imaging the choroid and choroidal blood flow in vivo, Exp Eye Res, 2024 Aug 16:110045.
6. Ahmed TS, Shah J, Zhen YN, Chua J, Wong DW, Nusinovici S, Tan R, Tan G, Schmetterer L† and Tan B†, 2024. Ocular microvascular complications in diabetic retinopathy: insights from machine learning. BMJ Open Diabetes Res Care, 12(1), p.e003758.
7. Tan B, Lim NA, Tan R, Gan AT, Chua J, Nusinovici S, Cheung CM, Chakravarthy U, Wong TY, Schmetterer L, Tan G. Combining retinal and choroidal microvascular metrics improves discriminative power for diabetic retinopathy. Br J Ophthalmol. 2023 Jul 1;107(7):993-9.
8. Tan B, McNabb RP, Zheng F, Sim YC, Yao X, Chua J, Ang M, Hoang QV, Kuo AN, Schmetterer L. Ultrawide field, distortion-corrected ocular shape estimation with MHz optical coherence tomography (OCT). Biomed Opt Express. 2021 Aug 23;12(9):5770-5781.
9. Tan B, Sim YC, Chua J, Yusufi D, Wong D, Yow AP, Chin C, Tan ACS, Sng CCA, Agrawal R, Gopal L, Sim R, Tan G, Lamoureux E, Schmetterer L. Developing a normative database for retinal perfusion using optical coherence tomography angiography. Biomed Opt Express. 2021 Jun 14;12(7):4032-4045.
10. Saxena A, Yao X, Wong D, Chua J, Ang M, Hoang QV, Agrawal R, Girard M, Cheung G, Schmetterer L, Tan B. Framework for quantitative three-dimensional choroidal vasculature analysis using optical coherence tomography. Biomed Opt Express. 2021 Jul 19;12(8):4982-4996.
11. Tan B, Chua J, Lin E, Cheng J, Gan A, Yao X, Wong DWK, Sabanayagam C, Wong D, Chan CM, Wong TY, Schmetterer L, Tan GS. Quantitative Microvascular Analysis With Wide-Field Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography in Eyes With Diabetic Retinopathy. JAMA Netw Open. 2020 Jan 3;3(1):e1919469.