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Zhi-Pei Liang received his Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University in 1989. He is currently Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Co-chair of the Integrative Imaging Theme of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He also has joint appointments in the Coordinated Science Laboratory, the Computational Biophysics Program, and the Department of Bioengineering, all at UIUC. Research Interests
Dr. Liang's research interests include magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy, fast imaging with sparse sampling, super-resolution image reconstruction using a priori constraints, statistical and learning-based methods for biomedical image analysis, and their application to functional brain mapping, cancer imaging, and cardiac imaging. Selected Publications
1. J. P. Haldar, Z.-P. Liang, “Spatiotemporal imaging with partially separable functions: A matrix recovery approach,” Proc. IEEE Int’l Symposium Biomedical Imaging, pp. 716-719, 2010 (won IEEE-ISBI Best Paper Award). 2. D. Hernando, P. Kellman, J. P. Haldar, Z.-P. Liang, “Robust water/fat separation in the presence of large field inhomogeneities using a graph-cut algorithm,” Magn. Reson. Med., vol. 63, pp. 79-90, 2010. (won the Isdior I. Rabi Award, ISMRM) 3. J. P. Haldar, D. Hernando, Z.-P. Liang, “Compressed-sensing MRI with random encoding,” IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging, 2011 (in press). 4. L. Ying, Z.-P. Liang, “Parallel MRI using phased array coils: Multichannel sampling theorem meets spin physics,” IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 90-98, July, 2010. 5. J. P. Haldar, D. Hernando, S.-K. Song, Z.-P. Liang, “Anatomically constrained reconstruction from noisy data,” Magn. Reson. Med., vol. 58, pp. 810-818, 2008. Current Projects
1. Project title: GOALI: Parallel MRI using phased array coils Founding agency: NSF Founding period: 2007-2011 Total amount: $184,396 Role: PI
2. Project title: Parallel MRI using phased array coils Founding agency: GE Global Healthcare Founding period: 2008-2011 Total amount: $45,000 Role: PI
3. Project title: NSF-IGERT: A unified educational program for systems engineering and neuroscience Founding agency: NSF Founding period: 2009-2014 Total amount: $3,192,413 Role: Co-PIAchievements
Dr. Liang is a recipient of the Sylvia Sorkin Greenfield Best Paper Award of the Medical Physics Journal (1990), an NSF Research Initiation Award (1994), an NSF CAREER Award (1995), and an IEEE-EMBS Early Career Achievement Award (1999). He was named Fellow of the UIUC Center for Advanced Study (1997), Henry Magnuski Scholar (1999-2001), and University Scholar (2001-2004). He was selected as a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE-EMBS (2002-2005), and received the Ronald W. Pratt Faculty Outstanding Teaching Award (2005), and the Engineering Council Award for Excellence in Advising (2006;2007;2008). Recent papers from his research group have received several prestigious awards, including Isidor I. Rabi award from the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (2009), IEEE-ISBI Best Paper Award (2010), and IEEE-EMBC Best Paper Award (2010). Dr. Liang was elected as Vice President (2006-2009), President-elect (2010), and President (2011-2012) of IEEE-EMBS. Dr. Liang is a Fellow of American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (2005), a Fellow of IEEE (2006), and a Fellow of International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (2010). |
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