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Derek Chan received the B.S.E. degree in Biomedical Engineering from Duke University in 2017, graduating magna cum laude with distinction and receiving the Howard G. Clark Award for excellence in research. He continued his studies at Duke, and received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Biomedical Engineering in 2019 and 2023, respectively. In 2018, he was awarded the Theo Pilkington Fellowship in Biomedical Engineering. From 2019 to 2020, he served as an Ultrasonics Student Representative for the IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society. In 2021, he was awarded a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award for Individual Predoctoral Fellows (F31) by the NIH National Cancer Institute.