About Dr. Zaman

Dr. Zaman received her bachelor’s in electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin before joining as an Applications Engineer in the Computer Platform Division at Motorola Inc. During undergraduate she was awarded as a College Scholar from the University of Texas at Austin. She was nominated for the National Dean’s List multiple times. She was a recipient of the President Scholarship and ECE Academic competitive Scholarship and became the life member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholar, the Golden Key National Honor’s Society, and the National Society of Professional Engineers. Dr. Zaman worked throughout her undergraduate study as an undergraduate research assistant in the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Physics.

After working more than 5 years at Motorola/Freescale as a Senior Engineer and Product Manager, she came back to UT at Austin to complete her master’s and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering (focus Biomedical Instrumentation) and Biomedical Engineering (focus Imaging), respectively. While working at Motorola, Dr. Zaman received a BRAVO award for above and beyond performance from the Management.  At UT at Austin, Dr. Zaman received Travel Grant Awards in four consecutive years from the United State Air Force Academy for outstanding research paper in ASLMS conference, Research Excellence Award for best original research paper from Newport/Spectra Physics, Professional Development Award from the University of Texas at Austin, Travel Grant Award from Graduate Council for accepted paper in Laser and Electro-optics conference. She was nominated twice for Chancellor’s List for her academic excellence and became a member of Magna Cum Laude Honor society.

After her PhD, Dr. Zaman was selected for NIBIB sponsored T32 fellowship in the Multi-Disciplinary Training Program for Cardiovascular Imaging at the Stanford (CVIS) University School of Medicine. Her research work scored as one of the top abstracts presented at the Highlight Lecture during the Closing Ceremony of the World Molecular Imaging Congress, Savannah, GA.  Dr. Zaman was awarded a highly competitive Western State Affiliate Winter 2013 Postdoctoral Fellowship, from the American Heart Association (AHA) at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Zaman’s AHA funded research on “Fiber-Optic Catheter System for Dual Optical

Imaging of Glucose Probes (18F-FDG and 6-NBDG) in Atherosclerotic Plaques,” was the winner of the Melvin Judkins Young Investigator Award by the AHA Cardiovascular Radiology and Intervention Council, Dallas, TX. Her research study on “A Novel Catheter-Based Radionuclide Imaging System to Characterize Atherosclerotic Plaque” had selected as a “Best-in-Physics” for scoring highest in the abstract review process and judged by the Scientific Program Directors of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine to reflect the highest level of scientific quality and innovation. Dr. Zaman was awarded a highly competitive and prestigious NIH K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award ~$1.0 million for scoring between outstanding-excellent. The results from this K99 sponsored studies won three Young Investigator Awards from the SNMMI in 2017 including (1) Cardiovascular Young Investigator Award, (2) Correlative Imaging Council Walter Wolf Young Investigator Award, (3) Henry Wagner Jr., MD Best Abstract Award for scoring highest among 8000 abstract submissions.

Dr. Zaman was an Instructor at the Department of Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine followed by an Assistant Professor in Radiology at the Harvard Medical School and Assistant Investigator at the Massachusetts General Brigham Hospital. Her research has been well-recognized by the scientific communities as evidence of 59 prestigious accolades including Dean’s Award for Emerging Leader in Women’s Careers (nominated) from Harvard Medical School in 2021, Rising Star Award from WMIC in 2020, Anne Klibanski Visiting Scholar Award from Massachusetts General Brigham Hospital in 2020, Science Council Best Paper Award from AAPM in 2019, and Women in Molecular Imaging Network Scholar Award from WMIC in 2018. She holds several US patents (one commercialized and one underway). Dr. Zaman published 59 first author peer-reviewed manuscripts and conference papers, 2 application-notes, and 1 book chapter.