Zhi-Pei Liang
Primary Research Area
- Bioimaging at Multi-Scale
For More Information
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
Research Interests
- Pattern recognition, parameter estimation, and machine learning
- Image formation theory and algorithms
- Magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy
Primary Research Area
- Bioimaging at Multi-Scale
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)
- IEEE-EMBS (2011-12)
- Elected Vice President (Conferences), IEEE-EMBS (2006-09)
- Elected AdCom Member, IEEE-EMBS (2003-06)
- University Scholar, UIUC (2001-04)
- Henry Magnuski Scholar (1999-01)
Teaching Honors
- Engineering Council Award (2006-08)
- Ronald W. Pratt (2005)
- IEEE-EMBS Award for (2002-05)
- Daily Illini Incomplete List of (1998-2000, 05, 07-09)
Research Honors
- Sylvia Sorkin Greenfield, Medical Physics (1990)
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.