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Principal Investigator

Gang LiGang Li

Dr. Gang Li is an Associate Professor with tenure in the Department of Radiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received his PhD in 2010 from Northwestern Polytechnical University. He was a Research Fellow at The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Weill Medical College of Cornell University and Harvard Medical School. He is the recipient of the UNC Junior Faculty Development Award, NIH K01 Career Award, and the Distinguished Investigator Award of the Academy for Radiology & Biomedical Imaging Research.


Research Faculty

Zhengwang WuZhengwang Wu

Dr. Zhengwang Wu is a Research Instructor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He got his PhD degree in pattern recognition and intelligent system from Xi’an Jiaotong University, China. His research focuses on computer vision, machine learning, pattern recognition methods, and their applications in medical image segmentation, classification and visualization. He is currently working on infant cortical surface atlas construction and computational pipeline development, as well as using state-of-the-art machine learning methods for infant MRI data analysis.


Postdoctoral Fellows

Liangjun ChenLiangjun Chen

Dr. Liangjun Chen is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from Xi’an Jiaotong University, China. His research focuses on machine learning and its applications in medical image segmentation, classification, and visualization. He is currently working on using state-of-the-art machine learning methods for pediatric brain MR image processing.

 

Ya WangYa Wang

Dr. Ya Wang is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She received her M.D. in Human Anatomy from Southern Medical University, China. Her research focuses on the analysis of early brain development and disease-related brain developmental abnormalities.


Fenqiang ZhaoFenqiang Zhao

Dr. Fenqiang Zhao is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received his Ph.D. degree in biomedical engineering from Zhejiang University, China in 2021. He mainly works on surface mesh-based deep learning methods for analyzing cortical surface data, such as cortical surface parcellation, prediction, and registration.


Students

Jiale ChengJiale Cheng

Jiale Cheng is a PhD student at the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University. His current research focuses on the development of deep learning-based methods for analyzing cortical surface data.

 

Xinrui YuanXinrui Yuan

Xinrui Yuan is a Ph.D. Candidate at School of Biomedical Engineering, Southern Medical University. Her current research focuses on the analysis of cortical surface data.

 

Laifa MaLaifa Ma

Laifa Ma is a Ph.D. candidate at College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University. He mainly works on fetal brain data analysis based on deep learning.

 

Kangfu HanKangfu Han

Kangfu Han is a Ph.D. Candidate at School of Biomedical Engineering, Southern Medical University. His current research focuses on the development and validation of novel deep learning-based methods for computer-aided brain disease diagnosis.

 

Thibaud BrochetThibaud Brochet

Thibaud Brochet is a Ph.D. Student in Computer Science at the University of Rouen, France. His current research focuses on the analysis of neonatal MRI through deep learning-based methods.

 

Xiaomei YueXiaomei Yue

Xiaomei Yue is a master student at Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, majoring in medical imaging. Her current research focuses on the analysis of multimodal cortical data.

 

Alumni

Yu Meng
Dr. Yu Meng
now with Google, US
Islem
Dr. Islem Rekik
now Assistant Professor at İTÜ
Haojie Shi
Dr. Shijie Hao
now with HFUT, China
oualid
Dr. Oualid Benkarim
now with McGill University
Dr. LiangSun
Dr. Liang Sun
now with Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Dr. Jing Xia
Dr. Jing Xia
now with NUS
Dingna Duan
Dr. Dingna Duan
now postdoc at BNU, China
Dr. Zengsi Chen
Dr. Zengsi Chen
now with China Jiliang
University
Dr. Xin Zhang
Dr. Xin Zhang
now with South China
University of Technology
Lufan Liao
Lufan Liao
now with Tencent, China
Dr. Fan Wang
Dr. Fan Wang
now with Xi’an Jiaotong
University, China
Dr. Tao Zhong
Dr. Tao Zhong
now postdoc at Southern
Medical University, China
Yuchen Pei
Yuchen Pei
now PhD candidate at SJTU, China
Dr. Dan Hu
Dr. Dan Hu
now with Medical University of South Carolina
Ying Huang
Ying Huang
now PhD candidate at NPU, China