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Sophie (So Hyun) Chung is a Ph.D. student in biomedical engineering doing research at the Beckman Laser Institute at UCI. She is studying tissue water state changes in breast cancer tissues with diffuse optical spectroscopy (DOS), a non-invasive bedside optical technique for tissue physiological property monitoring. DOS was developed by the director of BLI, Bruce J. Tromberg, Ph.D., and his colleagues. Sophie has received a Research Excellence Award from the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) and Newport Spectra-Physics.