Richard R. Bouchard received the B.S. degree in biomedical and electrical engineering and cultural anthropology from Duke University, Durham, NC, USA, in 2004, and the Ph.D. degree in biomedical engineering from Duke University in 2010. He completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship with the Ultrasound Imaging and Therapeutics Research Laboratory, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA, in 2012. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Imaging Physics with the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center where he directs the Photoacoustic Imaging Research Lab and is a Core Leader for ultrasound imaging in MD Anderson's Small Animal Imaging Core Facility. His research interests include preclinical and clinical photoacoustic-ultrasonic imaging and ultrasound-based elasticity imaging.