Ph.D. in Medical Physics Graduate Program Faculty
Program Director

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

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

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

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

Associate Professor

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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