Member
Principal Investigator
Research Faculty
Zhengwang 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. |
Dan Hu |
Dr. Dan Hu is a Research Instructor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She earned her PhD in Applied Mathematics from Beijing Normal University, China. Her research centers on developing innovative machine learning and deep learning methods for neuroimaging-based brain analysis, with a focus on modeling typical/atypical brain development and aging, structural and functional brain mapping, individualized characterization of brain functional connectivity, and multimodal data engineering. |
Postdoctoral Fellows
Jiameng Liu |
Dr. Jiameng Liu is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill under the supervision of Prof. Gang Li. His research focuses on structural MRI analysis, including brain extraction, tissue segmentation, regional parcellation, and cerebellar structure delineation. |
Kangfu Han |
Dr. Kangfu Han is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received his Ph.D. degree in biomedical engineering from Southern Medical University, China. His current research focuses on the development and validation of novel deep learning-based methods for computer-aided brain disease diagnosis. |
Xinrui Yuan |
Dr. Xinrui Yuan is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on analyzing cortical surface data to better understand brain structure and function. |
Students
Xiuyu Dong |
Xiuyu Dong 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. Her current research focuses on developing deep learning tools for cortical surface reconstruction. |
Weiran Xia |
Weiran Xia is a PhD student in Biomedical Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research focuses on functional MRI (fMRI) and brain connectivity analysis, with an emphasis on understanding brain network organization and development. He is particularly interested in developing computational methods for modeling functional connectivity patterns in neuroimaging data. |
Qingrui Sha |
Qingrui Sha is a PhD student in the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University. His current research focuses on atlas construction and image registration. |
Kun Wang |
Kun Wang is a PhD student at Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine and currently a visiting PhD student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her current research focuses on neuroimaging analysis and its clinical applications. |
Alumni
![]() Dr. Yu Meng now with Google, US |
![]() Dr. Islem Rekik now Assistant Professor at İTÜ |
![]() Dr. Shijie Hao now with HFUT, China |
![]() Dr. Oualid Benkarim now with McGill University |
![]() Dr. Liang Sun now with Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics |
![]() Dr. Jing Xia now with NUS |
![]() Dr. Dingna Duan now postdoc at BNU, China |
![]() Dr. Zengsi Chen now with China Jiliang University |
![]() Dr. Xin Zhang now with South China University of Technology |
![]() Lufan Liao now with Tencent, China |
![]() Dr. Fan Wang now with Xi’an Jiaotong University, China |
![]() Dr. Tao Zhong now postdoc at Southern Medical University, China |
![]() Yuchen Pei now PhD candidate at SJTU, China |
![]() Kaibo Tang now PhD candidate at BU and MGH |
![]() Ying Huang now PhD candidate at NPU, China |

Zhengwang Wu
Dan Hu
Jiameng Liu
Kangfu Han
Xinrui Yuan
Xiuyu Dong
Weiran Xia
Qingrui Sha
Kun Wang













