PhD, Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (2002)
Employment:
SUNY Empire Innovation Professor and Associate Chair, Biomedical Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (2018-present)
Professor and Director, Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco and UC Berkeley and UCSF Joint Bioengineering Program School of Medicine (2015–2018)
Director and PI of UCSF High Field MR Technology Laboratory, Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco and UC Berkeley and UCSF Joint Bioengineering School of Medicine (2006–2018)
Associate Professor, Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco and UC Berkeley and UCSF Joint Bioengineering Program School of Medicine (2008–2015)
Assistant Professor, Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco and UC Berkeley and UCSF Joint Bioengineering Program School of Medicine (2006–2008)
Assistant Professor, Radiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis School of Medicine (2002–2006)
Awards and Honors:
Outstanding Contribution Award, Overseas Chinese Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (OCSMRM) (2019)
Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) (2017)
Distinguished Investigator Award, Academy of Radiology Research, Washington DC (2014)
UCSF Award for Established Investigator in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences (2013)
Research Expertise:
MR Imaging and its biomedical applications: Technical development of high and ultrahigh field MR imaging and spectroscopy, MR neuroimaging, catheter navigating and endovascular MR imaging, MR hardware technology, fast imaging method, computational electromagnetism in MRI