Chengzhu Zhang - This is ME!

During my PhD 🎓

• Received rigorous and extensive PhD training under Dr. Guang-Hong Chen.
• Research specialties:
  • 🔹 Quality-assured AI-based image reconstruction
  • 🔹 Interior Problem (Region of Interest tomographic reconstruction)
  • 🔹 Patient-specific quantitative image quality assessment
  • 🔹 Deep learning empowered two view reconstruction
  • 🔹 Chest X-ray COVID-19 classification
• Notable Publications:
  • 5 first-authored journal papers 📄
  • 1 book chapter 🔖
  • 13 oral presentations 🎤
• Significant research experiences:
  • 🔹 Perfusion imaging, CT/CBCT Angiography
  • 🔹 Accelerated/Undersampled MRI
  • 🔹 Denoising Diffusiong Probablistic Model

During my Residency 🏥

Comprehensive clinical training and impactful projects:

• 🔸 Developing institutional VMAT-TBI procedures
• 🔸 Investigation of beam field-specific DLG
• 🔸 Implementing SGRT for tattoo-less right breast RT
• 🔸 Commissioning the first TrubeBeam machine in our new cancer center

Current clinical research interests:

• 🔹 Discovering Imaging biomarker from CT/PSMA/mpMRI for metastatic prostate cancer
• 🔹 Prognostic value of habitat radiomic feature to metastatic prostate cancer
• 🔹 Commissioning the MR-Linac in our new cancer center

I actively contribute to academic journals and conferences:

• Associate Editor appointment ✒️ in Medical Physics Editorial Board (MPEB) of AAPM (starting 1/1/2023).
• Reviewed over 100 papers for journals, including:
  • 📘 Medical Physics
  • 📗 Physics in Medicine & Biology
  • 📕 The Red Journal
  • 📓 Transactions of Computational Imaging
  • 📔 Frontiers in Oncology
  • 📒 Journal of Medical Imaging

I am an INFJ-A type person. I generously contribute energy to the group but tend to gain energy from doing things alone. I will fit right in to the clinical environment. My passion for musical instruments has been a significant part of my life:

• Accordion 🎼: I have played the accordion since childhood, achieving 🏆 national second place in my age group. In 2013, I joined the Tsinghua Student Arts Troupe and served as chair of the "Clavier" Accordion team.
  • 📺 See performances: Performance 1 and Performance 2.
• Piano 🎹: Over the past year, I have taken up the piano, developing a wide-ranging repertoire, including:
  • 🎵 Chopin's "Heroic" Polonaise in A-flat major Op. 53
  • 🎵 Liszt's Liebestraum No. 3
  • 🎵 Chopin - Fantaisie-Impromptu (Op. 66)

Apart from music, I enjoy:

• 💪 Working out and practicing Les Mills Body Combat.
• 🏀 Playing basketball with friends.

• Medical Physics Residency, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, 7/2023-6/2024 (expected)
  Focused on radiomics-guided prostate cancer focal and salvage boost radiation therapy.
  Supervisor: Ke Nie, Ph.D., Professor
• Ph.D., Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 9/2017-6/2023
  5 first-authored papers, 3 co-author papers, 1 book chapter, and 13 oral presentations.
  Supervisor: Guang-Hong Chen, Ph.D., Professor
• B.S., Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, 9/2013-7/2017
  Ranked 1st/55, graduated with honors (top 1%/3374), national scholarship (top 1%).
  Supervisor: Yuxiang Xing, Ph.D., Professor
• Visiting, Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 6/2016-9/2016
  Worked on advanced imaging techniques under Dr. Webster Stayman; presented at SPIE Medical Imaging 2017.
• Exchange, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 8/2015-12/2015