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Ph.D. in Medical Physics Graduate Program Faculty

Program Director

You Zhang, Ph.D.

You Zhang, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Research interests: 3D/4D CT/CBCT reconstruction and analysis, 4D MRI reconstruction, artificial intelligence and automation in radiation therapy, biomechanical modeling and finite element analysis, deformable registration and its application in image-guided radiation therapy, radiotherapy dose calculation and plan optimization

Faculty

Jie Deng, Ph.D.

Jie Deng, Ph.D.

Professor

Research interests: MR medical physics, adaptive radiotherapy, imaging, deep learning, MRI, radiology, NMR, pattern recognition, neuroradiology, AI, artificial intelligence, oncology

Steve Jiang, Ph.D.

Steve Jiang, Ph.D.

Professor

Research interests: Cloud- and GPU-based high-performance computing in medical physics and imaging, automatic radiotherapy treatment planning, adaptive radiotherapy, image-guided radiotherapy, low-dose and dynamic-cone-beam CT

Weiguo Lu, Ph.D.

Weiguo Lu, Ph.D.

Professor

Research interests: Adaptive radiation therapy, treatment-plan optimization, radiation-dose calculations

Dan Nguyen, Ph.D.

Dan Nguyen, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Research interests: Radiation therapy treatment planning, optimization techniques and algorithms, artificial intelligence technology development and applications

Chenyang Shen, Ph.D.

Chenyang Shen, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Research interests: Innovate, develop, and apply artificial intelligence and other advance computational technologies to empower clinicians to improve cancer care

Jing Wang, Ph.D.

Jing Wang, Ph.D.

Professor

Research interests: Tomographic image reconstruction; cone-beam computed tomography, image-guided radiation therapy, medical imaging processing

Ken Kang-Hsin Wang, Ph.D.

Ken Kang-Hsin Wang, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Research interests: Biomedical optics, in vivo cell tracking, optical tomography-guided radiation therapy and ultra-high dose rate irradiation

Daniel Yang, M.D.

Daniel Yang, M.D.

Assistant Professor

Research interests: Artificial intelligence, clinical informatics, AI applications for prostate radiotherapy, genitourinary oncology

Ying Zhang, Ph.D.

Ying Zhang, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

  • Zhang Lab

Research interests: Artificial intelligence; MRI-guided adaptive radiotherapy (MRgART), Large Language Model (LLM) based Al agent

Associate Faculty

These faculty members do not accept graduate students. They participate in teaching, co-mentoring, exam and dissertation committees, and all other program activities.

Hao Gao, Ph.D.

Hao Gao, Ph.D.

Professor

Research interests: Medical physics, treatment planning, particle therapy, SFRT/FLASH

Andrew Godley, Ph.D.

Andrew Godley, Ph.D.

Professor

Research interests: Adaptive radiation therapy, MRI-based radiation therapy

Brian Hrycushko, Ph.D.

Brian Hrycushko, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Research interests: Tissue-response modeling in radiation therapy; brachytherapy

Paul Medin, Ph.D.

Paul Medin, Ph.D.

Professor

Research interests: Tissue-response modeling in radiation therapy; stereotactic radiation therapy

Hao Peng, Ph.D.

Hao Peng, Ph.D.

Professor

Research interests: Proton therapy, artificial intelligence, PET and PET/MRI imaging, FLASH

Yulong Yan, Ph.D.

Yulong Yan, Ph.D.

Professor

Research interests: High-performance computing; infrastructure for radiation therapy; radiobiological effects