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Meet the Principal Investigators

You Zhang, Ph.D., DABR

You Zhang, Ph.D., DABR

Associate Professor
Division of Medical Physics and Engineering
Department of Radiation Oncology
Email
Phone: 214-645-2699

Lab Members

Meixu Chen, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Researcher

Meixu Chen, Ph.D.

Bowen Jing, Ph.D.

Instructor

Bowen Jing, Ph.D.

Yunxiang Li

Graduate Student

Yunxiang Li

Xiaoxue Qian, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Researcher

Xiaoxue Qian, Ph.D.

Erich Schmitz, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Researcher

Erich Schmitz, Ph.D.

Hua-Chieh Shao, Ph.D.

Instructor

Hua-Chieh Shao, Ph.D.

Shanshan Tang, Ph.D.

Instructor

Shanshan Tang, Ph.D.

Alumni

Ph.D. Dissertation Students

Program

Duration in AIRT Lab

Position After Training

Awards/Notes

Kai Wang Biomedical Engineering Graduate Program, UTSW January 2019 - May 2023 Medical Physics Resident, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Maryland Won third place of MICCAI HECKTOR 2022 for Task 2 recurrence-free survival prediction.
Xiaokun Huang Biomedical Engineering Graduate Program, UTSW June 2015 - June 2020 Medical Physics Resident, Department of Radiation Oncology, Northwestern Memorial Hospital  
Luo Ouyang Biomedical Engineering Graduate Program, UTSW January 2010 - May 2014 Medical Physics Resident, Department of Radiation Oncology, UTSW. Now: Medical Physicist at Torrance Memorial Hospital  

Postdoctoral Researchers

Department

Duration in AIRT Lab

Position After Training

Awards/Notes

Roshan Timilsina, Ph.D. Department of Radiation Oncology, UTSW January - August 2021 Certificate program at Purdue University. Now: Medical Physics Resident, Florida Proton Center  
Meysam Tavakoli, Ph.D. Department of Radiation Oncology, UTSW June 2020 - June 2021  Medical Physics Resident, Department of Radiation Oncology, UPMC. Now: Assistant Professor, Emory University  
Tao Peng, Ph.D. Department of Radiation Oncology, UTSW September 2020 - August 2022 Associate Professor, Soochow University  
Deepak Shrestha, Ph.D. Department of Radiation Oncology, UTSW May 2015 - June 2019 Medical Physics Resident, Department of Radiation Oncology, UTSW. Now: Medical Physicist, Mayo Clinic  
Zhiguo Zhou, Ph.D. Department of Radiation Oncology, UTSW November 2014 - August 2019 Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Central Missouri. Now: Assistant Professor, Kansas University Medical Center Media report
Liyuan Chen, Ph.D. Department of Radiation Oncology, UTSW January 2016 - June 2020 Medical Physics Resident, Department of Radiation Oncology, UTSW. Now: Assistant Professor, UTSW Won Roberts’ Prize for best paper published in the journal, Physics in Medicine and Biology, in 2019 as a co-first author. 

Media report
Alfonso Rodriguez, Ph.D. Department of Radiation Oncology, UTSW July 2016 - June 2017 Medical Physicist, Billings Clinic Won third place at the Young Investigator Symposium at SWAAPM meeting in 2017.
Shanzhou Niu, Ph.D. Department of Radiation Oncology, UTSW December 2015 - April 2018 Assistant Professor, Gannan Normal University, China  
Faraz Kalantari, Ph.D. Department of Radiation Oncology, UTSW September 2014 - June 2017 Medical Physics Resident, Department of Radiation Oncology, UTSW. Now: Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas  
Joubin Nasehi Tehrani, Ph.D. Department of Radiation Oncology, UTSW January 2014 - June 2016 Medical Physics Resident, University of Virginia. Now: Assistant Professor, University of Maryland  
Zichun Zhong, Ph.D. Department of Radiation Oncology, UTSW August 2014 - August 2015 Assistant Professor, Wayne State University. Now: Associate Professor, Wayne State University   
David Staub, Ph.D.* Department of Radiation Oncology, UTSW January 2014 - May 2015 Data Scientist, Argyle Data. Now: Senior Data Scientist, Airbnb *co-supervised with Dr. Steve Jiang
Jun Dang, Ph.D. Department of Radiation Oncology, UTSW October 2012 - December 2014 Zhejiang University, China. Now: Deputy Chief Physicist, Cancer Hospital & Shenzhen Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College  
Zhiliang Li, Ph.D. Department of Radiation Oncology, UTSW June 2011 - February 2012 Engineer, American Bureau of Shipping  

Junior Visiting Faculty

Title

Duration in AIRT Lab

Home Institute

Awards/Notes

Benjuan Yang Visiting Assistant Professor January 2019 - January 2020 School of Mathematics Science, Guizhou Normal University, Guizhou, China  
Rongfang Wang Visiting Assistant Professor August 2018 - August 2020 School of Computer Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi’an, China  
Shulong Li Visiting Assistant Professor July 2016 -October 2017 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China  
Hongxia Hao, Ph.D. Visiting Assistant Professor March 2016 - September 2017 School of Computer Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi’an, China  
Yuncheng Zhong, Ph.D.* Instructor November 2015 - July 2018 Department of Radiation Oncology, UTSW *co-supervised with Dr. Yiping Shao
Xi Chen, Ph.D. Visiting Assistant Professor April 2015 - April 2017 Department of Radiation Oncology, UTSW  
Bin Li Visiting Assistant Professor December 2014 - August 2015 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China  
Qingwen Lyu Visiting Assistant Professor December 2014 - February 2015 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China  

Visiting Graduate Students

 

Duration in AIRT Lab

Home Institute

Awards/Notes

Hua Zhang   April 2013 -April 2014 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China  
Cong Zhao   May - August 2014 Department of Physics, University of Texas at Arlington  
Shiwei Zhou   May - August 2019 Department of Physics, University of Texas at Arlington  

Medical Residents and Students

Title

Duration in AIRT Lab

Department

Awards/Notes

Allen Yen, M.D. Resident July 2022 - June 2023 Department of Radiation Oncology, UTSW  
Howard Morgan, M.D. Resident July 2020 - June 2021 (research year) Department of Radiation Oncology, UTSW  
Michael Dohopolski, M.D. Resident September 2018 - June 2023 Department of Radiation Oncology, UTSW The B. Leonard Holman Research Pathway. Won RSNA seed grant.
Avanka Lowe, M.D. Resident October 2019 - July 2021 Department of Radiation Oncology, UTSW  
William Chance Medical Student Summer 2010 Department of Radiation Oncology, UTSW