Kirill V. Larin
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Kirill V. Larin | |
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| Born | |
| Occupation | Academic |
| Employer | University of Houston |
| Known for | Development and applications of optical coherence tomography, optical coherence elastography |
| Title | Cullen Endowed Chair and Professor |
| Awards | Herbert Allen Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (2008) Fellow of SPIE (2015) Fellow of Optica (2016) Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (2020) SPIE Biophotonics Technology Innovator Award (2025) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Saratov State University University of Texas Medical Branch |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of Houston Baylor College of Medicine |
Kirill Vladimirovich Larin is an American academic who is the Cullen Endowed Chair and Professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Houston (UH). He currently serves as the chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering and holds a joint appointment as an adjunct professor of physiology and biophysics at the Baylor College of Medicine. Larin is recognized for the development and application of optical coherence tomography and elastography.
Larin was born in Russia. He attended Saratov State University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in physics and a master's degree in laser physics and mathematics.[1] In the late 1990s, he relocated to the United States for graduate studies at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston. He obtained a master's degree in cellular physiology and molecular biophysics in 2001 and completed his Ph.D. in biomedical sciences and biomedical engineering in 2002.[2][1]
Career
Following a post-doctoral fellowship at UTMB, Larin joined the faculty at the University of Houston in the mid-2000s.[1] He eventually attained the position of tenured professor and was appointed the Cullen Endowed Chair of Biomedical Engineering.[1] In 2025, he was named chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering.[1] He also holds a joint faculty appointment in the UH College of Optometry.[3] He is also the director of the Biomedical Optics Laboratory.[4]
Larin also serves as an Adjunct Associate Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics at Baylor College of Medicine.[3] He is also the founding chair of the SPIE annual conference on Optical Elastography and Tissue Biomechanics.[1]
