Xiaoming Zhang is a Professor of Radiology at Mayo Clinic, USA. He is a fellow of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) and the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM). He received his bachelor’s, master’s, and Ph.D. degrees from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, in 1983, 1986, and 1990, respectively. He has developed novel ultrasound elastography techniques including lung ultrasound surface wave elastography. These techniques can assess tissue diseases in a safe, noninvasive, quantitative, and cost-effective way. He has conducted multiple clinical studies using his techniques in a variety of fields including skin fibrosis, interstitial lung disease, glaucoma, carpal tunnel syndrome, kidney injury, and erectile dysfunction.