Curriculum Vitae
• Medical image analysis: reconstruction, segmentation, and registration
• 3D shape analysis: harmonic mapping, Laplace-Beltrami spectrum analysis, intrinsic feature extraction, skeleton computation, shape priors, and statistical analysis of morphometry changes
• Level-set and PDE-based image processing: segmentation and tracking
• High angular diffusion tensor imaging: reconstruction and registration of fiber orientation density functions
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Lab of Neuro Imaging, UCLA School of Medicine. May 2005- present
• Intern, Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, NJ, USA. April-August, 2004
• Visiting scholar, I3S Laboratory, University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France. June-July, 2003
• Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering , May 2005
Dissertation: Object-based Dynamic Imaging with Level Set Methods
Advisor: Professor W. Clem Karl
• Southeast University, Nanjing, China
M.S. in Electrical Engineering , May 1999
Thesis: A Web-based Video Surveillance System Using H.263+
Advisor: Professor Lenan Wu
• Southeast University, Nanjing, China
B.S. in Electrical Engineering , July 1996
• Best Paper Award, MMBIA, 2008
• Most Novel Method, Center for Computational Biology All-Hands Meeting, UCLA, 2006
• Winner of Student Paper Competition at IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2005
• Winner of the CenSSIS Award in Science and Technology Day, Boston University, 2005
• Honorable Mention for Student Poster Award from the Center for Information and Systems Engineering (CISE), Boston University, 2005
• Presidential University Graduate Fellowship, Boston University, 1999
• Excellent Master Thesis Award, Jiangsu Province, China, 1999
• More than 10 years of experience with C++ and Matlab
• Direct cortical surface mapping software : computes a map between two cortical surfaces under the constraints of a set of sulcal lines
• Hippocampal surface mapping software : computes spherical maps of hippocampal surfaces with automatically detected landmark curves
• Sulcal/gyral skeleton extraction software : computes the Hamilton-Jacobi skeleton of sulcal/gyral regions on cortical surfaces.
• IEEE Member
• Reviewer for
- IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
- IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
- IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
- IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
- IEEE Signal Processing Letters
- Machine Vision and Applications Journal
- SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing
- CVPR
- ISBI
- MICCAI