Zhi-Pei Liang
Research Topics
- Bioimaging at Multi-Scale
Education
- Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, 1989
- B.S., Electrical Engineering, South-China University of Technology, 1982
Academic Positions
- Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, Coordinated Science Laboratory, and Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, August 2003 - Present
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Research Topics
- Bioimaging at Multi-Scale
Research Interests
- Pattern recognition, parameter estimation, and machine learning
- Image formation theory and algorithms
- Magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy
Books Authored or Co-Authored (Original Editions)
- Z.-P. Liang and P. C. Lauterbur, "Principles of Magnetic Resonance Imaging," IEEE Press/Wiley, 1999.
Honors
- Elected to Int'l Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering, 2012
- Otto Schmitt Award, IFMBE, 2012
- Fellow, ISMRM, 2010
- Fellow, IEEE, 2006
- Fellow, AIMBE, 2005
- Elected President, IEEE-EMBS, 2011-2012
- Elected Vice President (Conferences), IEEE-EMBS, 2006-2009
- Elected AdCom Member, IEEE-EMBS, 2003-2006
- Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE-EMBS, 2002-2005
- University Scholar, UIUC, 2001-2004
- Early Career Achievement Award, IEEE-EMBS, 1999
- Henry Magnuski Scholar, 1999-2001
- Beckman Fellow, Center for Advanced Study, 1997
- National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 1995
- Whitaker Foundation Biomedical Engineering Research Award, 1991
- Sylvia Sorkin Greenfield Award (best paper) of Medical Physics, 1990
Teaching Honors
- Ronald W. Pratt Outstanding Teaching Award, 2005
- Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE-EMBS, 2002-2005
- Engineering Council Award for Excellence in Advising, 2006-2008
- In Daily Illini Incomplete List of Excellent Teachers, 1998-2000, 05, 07-09
Other Honors
- EMBC'2011 First-Place Paper Award: A.G. Christodoulou, B. Zhao, H. Zhang, C. Ho, Z.-P. Liang, "Four-dimensional MR cardiovascular imaging: Method and applications," Proc. 33rd, Annual Int'l Conference of IEEE-EMBS, pp. 3732-3735, 2011.
- EMBC'2010 First-Place Paper Award: J.P. Haldar, Z. Wang, G. Popescu, Z.-P. Liang, "Label-free high-resolution imaging of live cells with deconvolved spatial light interference microscopy," Proc. 32nd Annual Int'l Conference of IEEE-EMBS, pp. 3382-3385, 2010.
- ISBI'2010 Best Paper Award: J.P. Haldar, Z.-P. Liang, "Spatiotemporal Imaging with partially separable fuctions: A matrix recovery approach," Proc. IEEE Int'l Symposium Biomedical Imaging, pp. 716-719, 2010.
- I.I. Rabi Award: D.Hernando, P. Kellman, J.P. Haldar, Z.-P. Liang, "Robust water/fat separation in the presence of large field inhomogeneities using a graph-cut algorithm," Magn. Reson. Med., vol. 63, pp. 79-90, 2010.
- Sylvia Sorkin Greenfield Award: E.M. Haacke, Z.-P. Liang, S.H. Izen, "Constrained reconstruction: A superresolution, optimal signal-to-noise, alternative to the Fourier transform in magnetic resonance imaging," Medical Physics, vol. 16, pp 388-397, 1989.