Dr. Zhaoyang Fan is a tenured Associate Professor of Radiology and Director of Magnetic Resonance (MR) Imaging Research at the Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California (USC). He holds a joint appointment at the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Radiation Oncology. He is also a full member of the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center. Before joining USC, he was an Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and Technical Director of 3-Tesla MR at the institution’s Research Imaging Core, with affiliate faculty appointments at the Departments of Bioengineering and Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Fan received his bachelor’s degree from Tsinghua University and his PhD degree in Biomedical Engineering from Northwestern University.
Dr. Fan’s career as an MR imaging scientist has been focused on the development and clinical translation of novel MR and machine learning methods for fast and precise assessment of human diseases. His current research interests include diagnosis and characterization of cardio- and neuro-vascular diseases, quantitative cancer imaging, and imaging-guided radiation therapy. He has authored over 140 peer-reviewed publications and over 260 conference abstracts. He is Principal Investigator of NIH-funded projects and an active reviewer for national and international funding agencies, conferences, and journals. He is Junior Fellow of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), Fellow of Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR), and Distinguished Investigator of the Academy for Radiology & Biomedical Imaging Research.
Jiayu Xiao, MD, graduated from Capital Medical University in China with a master’s degree in radiology and a doctorate in clinical medicine. Xiao works as a postdoctoral scientist in the Fan Laboratory with research interests in neurovascular imaging and abdominal MRI segmentation.
Qingle Kong received his PhD degree in Biomedical Engineering from Institute of Biophysics, Chinese academy of science, and his BS degree from Xi’an Jiaotong University in Biomedical Engineering. Kong works as a postdoctoral scientist in the Fan Laboratory with research interests in developing new MRI techniques and clinical applications in neurovascular imaging.
Junzhou Chen received his Bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineering from University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is now a doctoral student in Bioengineering at UCLA with a subfield of biomedical imaging and signal processing. At Dr. Fan’s lab, his research focuses on the development of MR techniques for applications in MR-guided radiation therapy.
Yang Chen received his bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Tianjin University in China. He is now a doctoral student in Biomedical Engineering at USC.
Pengcheng Wang received his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Science and Technology of China. He is now a doctoral student in Biomedical Engineering at USC. His research interest is in Biomedical AI, which lies in the interdisciplinary areas of biomedical signal and image processing, medical image analysis, machine learning, and computer vision. Pengcheng will work as a PhD student in the Fan Laboratory.
Charlie Floeder received his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Computer Science with an AI specialization from USC’s Viterbi School of Engineering.
Jingxiang Zhang received his undergraduate degree in Computer Science from China Agricultural University. He then completed his Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California. Jingxiang is currently a research assistant, with research interests that include biomedical signal and image processing, medical image analysis, machine learning, and computer vision.
Past Trainees
Postdoctoral fellows
Senior display engineer at Apple
Associate professor at
Xidian University
PhD Students
Strategy & Corporate development at Varian
Machine learning engineer at Workday
Software engineer at Intuitive
Master Student
- Cody Lynch
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow and Scholar
- Guoxi Xie
- Na Zhang
- Yu Guo
- Xiaoli Sun
- Peng Chang
Internship
- Xucheng Zhu
- Fei Tan
- Zhangbin Yi
- Haili Wu
- Wenhao Xu
- Yujin Xie
- Siddarth Ganesh
- Dongwei Zhang