Imaging and Informatics Lab
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Hengyong Yu, PhD
Professor
Director of Imaging and Informatics Lab
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Office Address:
Ball Hall 317
One University Avernue, Lowell, MA, 01854
Phone: 978-934-6756; Fax: 978-934-3027
Email: hengyong_yu@uml.edu; hengyong-yu@ieee.org
EDUCATION
Postdoc, Sep. 2004 -May 2006, Exact Cone-beam CT, CT/Micro-CT Lab, Department of Radiology, University of Iowa, USA.
PhD, Sep. 1998-Jun. 2003, Information & Telecommunication Engineering, Institute of Image Processing, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China.
BE(Major), Sep. 1994-Jul. 1998, Information Science & Technology (a special program for outstanding students); School of Electronics & Information Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China.
BS(Minor), Mar. 1996- Mar. 1998, Computing Mathematics; School of Science, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Professor, Sep. 2018-Now, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
Associate Professor, Nov. 2014-Aug. 2018, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
Assistant Professor, May 2010-Nov. 2014, Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, Wake Forest University Health Sciences.
Assistant Professor, May 2010-Jun. 2013, Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, Wake Forest University Health Sciences.
Research Scientist, Nov. 2006- May. 2010, Biomedical Imaging Division, VT-WFU School of Biomedical Engineering & Sciences, Virginia Tech, USA.
Adjunct Assistant Professor, April 2007-May 2010, Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, Wake Forest University Health Sciences.
Associate Professor, Sep. 2004-May 2009, College of Telecommunication Engineering, Hangzhou Dianzi University , China (on leave without salary).
Associate Research Scientist, Jun. 2006-Nov. 2006, CT/Micro-CT Lab, Department of Radiology, University of Iowa, USA.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Sep. 2004-May 2006, CT/Micro-CT Lab, Department of Radiology, University of Iowa, USA.
Instructor, Jul.2003-Sep. 2004, College of Telecommunication Engineering, Hangzhou Dianzi University , China.
Visiting Student, Sep.2002-Nov. 2002, Media Computing Group, Microsoft Research Asia, China.
Research Assistant, Sep. 1998-May 2003, Institute of Image Processing, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China.
TEACHING COURSES
Autumn 2003: Digital Signal Processing (50 hours), Paulo S. R. Diniz, Eduardo A. B. da Silva, and Sergio L. Netto, Digital signal processing system analysis and design (English), Publishing house of electronics industry, Beijing, 2002
Autumn 2003: Experiments of Digital Signal Processing (25 hours), Shunlan Liu, Jie Wu and Zhijin Zhao, Instruction to the experiments of digital signal processing (Chinese), preprint
Spring 2004: Introduction of Information Countermeasure (50 hours), Yinming Hou, Decheng Li, Xianzheng Kong, et al, Integration of Electrical Warfare (Chinese), National Defence Industry Press, Beijing, 2000
October 2006: Development of Spiral Cone-beam CT (1 hour), Graduate Seminar, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Iowa, Oct. 12th, 2006.
Spring 2011: Computed Tomography Component, Medical Imaging II (Graduate Course), Wake Forest University Health Sciences.
Spring 2013: Medical Image Reconstruction (Graduate Course, 50 hours), Virginia Tech and Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Student Evaluation: 5.32/6.00
Spring 2014: Medical Image Reconstruction (Graduate Course, 50 hours), Virginia Tech and Wake Forest University Health Sciences
Spring 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020: Medical Image Reconstruction (Graduate Course, 40 hours), University of Massachusetts Lowell
Fall 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023: Signals and Systems I (Undergraduate Course, 40 hours), University of Massachusetts Lowell
Spring 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023: Signals and Systems I (Undergraduate Course, 40 hours), University of Massachusetts Lowell
Spring 2023: Introduction to Medical Image Reconstruction (Senior and graduate course, 40 hours), University of Massachusetts Lowell
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PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Senior Member of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
Member of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine
Member of the Biomedical Engineering Society
Member of the Chinese Institute of Electronics (CIE)
SERVICES
Committee Members of
International Conference on Image Formation in X-ray CT (2010,2012,2014, 2016, 2020, 2022, 2024)
International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging 2014 (ISBI’14)
IEEE-EMB T. C. on Computational Biology and the Physiome (from 2013)
International Meeting on Fully 3D Image Reconstruction (2015,2017, 2019, 2021, 2023)
International Conference on Image Graphics (2015)
AAPM Working Group for Non-Clinical Professional (2023-Now)
AAPM Joint Working Group for Research Seed Founding Initiative (2023-Now)
Founding Editor-in-Chief of JSM Biomedical Imaging Data Papers (2013-2019)
Editorial Board Member/Associate Editor of
Signal Processing (from 2006)
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (from 2023)
Medical Physics (from 2022)
Journal of Medical Engineering (2012-2017)
Int. J. of Biomedical Engineering and Consumer Health Informatics (from 2009)
The Open Medical Imaging Journal (2009-2015)
CT Theory and Applications (from 2010)
Guest Editors for
International Journal of Biomedical Imaging (2006)
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (2014, 2023)
IEEE Access (2014, 2021)
Guest Associate Editor for Medical Physics (2006, 2010)
Grant Proposal Reviewers for
NIH ZRG1 SBIB-V (58) Challenge Grants Panel #23 (2009)
Thrasher Research Fund (2009)
James and Esther King Biomedical Research Program TSP Project (2011)
Italian Ministry of Health (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018)
NIH ZAC1 TCRB-W(M2) (Feb. 2016)
NSF III Data Mining Panel (April 2016)
NSF III Data Mining Panel (April 2016)
NIH ZAC1 TCRB-D (J3) (Dec. 2016)
NIH ZAC1 TCRB-D (M1) (Mar. 2017)
NIH ZAC1 SRB-1 (J2) S (Nov, 2017)
NSF Proposal Review for EPSCoR (RII Track-4, April 2017)
NSF Proposal Review for EPSCoR (RII Track-4, April 2018)
NIH ZEB1 OSR-F(A1) R (Jun. 2019)
NSF/NIH SCH Panel (Feb. 2020)
NIH Special Panel for MIDRC (July 2020)
NSF/NIH SCH Panel (April 2021)
NIH CTIS Study Section Panel (February 2022, November 2022)
Swiss National Science Foundation (July 2022)
United Arab Emirates University Research Proposal Reviewer (July 2023)
Textbook Proposal Reviewer for
Paper Reviewers for
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development
IEEE Signal Processing Letters
Physics in Medicine and Biology
SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences
Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision
European Journal of Medical Physics
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
Journal of Computational Mathematics
Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics
Journal of X-ray Science and Technology
Current Medical Imaging Reviews
Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography
International Journal of Biomedical Imaging
International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery
International Journal of Signal and Imaging Systems Engineering
HONORS & AWARDS
1. Mar. 1994: Admitted as a undergraduate without the mandatory exam
Awarded by Xi’an Jiaotong University for my excellent achievements in the national Olympic Contests of Mathematics and Chemistry
2. 1997,1996,1995,1994: In the dean’s list
3. Sep. 1997: Second prize in China mathematic contest in modeling
The contest is traditional annually held event in China in order to encourage gifted students to exercise their talent in mathematic modeling each year, hundreds of excellent students take part in the contest
4. Oct. 1997: Admitted as a graduate without the mandatory exam
Awarded by Xi’an Jiaotong University to the top 8% students in the class
5. Apr. 1998: Excellent paper of thesis (Minor)
Awarded by Xi’an Jiaotong University to top 15% of all students
6. Jul. 1998: Excellent paper of thesis (Major)
Awarded by Xi’an Jiaotong University to top 15% of all students
7. Jun. 1999: First prize in the Hua-Wei communication paper contest
The contest is sponsored by “Huawei” Company. Awarded to only the top 5 outstanding graduate students among more than 200 participants
8. Nov. 1999: University excellent graduate student
Awarded by Xi’an Jiaotong University to the top 15% students in the class
9. Nov. 1999: First prize scholarship of Xinxing company
Awarded by Xinxing Company to 20 outstanding graduate students in the university
10. Nov. 2000: University outstanding student
Awarded by Xi’an Jiaotong University to the top 5% students in the class (in fact the top one)
11. Nov. 2000: Scholarship of USA-IET
Awarded by International Engineering Technology Incorporated in U.S.A
12. Nov. 2001: Excellent paper of CBME’2001
Awarded by the CBME’ 2001 Conference Committee (China)
13. Nov. 2001: University excellent graduate student
Awarded by Xi’an Jiaotong University to the 15% students in the class
14. Nov.2002: University outstanding student
Awarded by Xi’an Jiaotong University to the top 5% students in the class (in fact the top one)
15. Nov. 2002: First prize scholarship of HuaWei company
Awarded by “HuaWei” Company to the outstanding graduate students in the university
16. Jun. 2004: First prize (top one) in the teaching skill contest
Awarded by the college of telecommunication engineering, Hangzhou Dianzi university
17. Sep. 2004: Outstanding young teacher
Awarded by Hangzhou Dianzi University to 16 teachers among all the teachers not older than 35
18. Dec. 2004: Excellent paper of the Journal of Xi’an Jiaotong University
Awarded to 28 papers among all the papers published on the Journal of Xi’an Jiaotong University between 2001 and 2002
19. Jun. 2005: University research achievements prize
Awarded by the Education Ministry of ZheJiang Province, China
20. July. 2005, Outstanding doctoral dissertation
Awarded by Xi’an Jiaotong University to 17 authors among all the graduated Ph.D students in the past two years
21. Oct. 2005, First prize of natural science papers
Awarded by the Association of Sci. & Tech. of ZheJiang Province, China, to 19 papers selected from 27,139 natural science papers published in 2003- 2004 and authored by the researchers in Zhejiang Province
22. May 2006: Senior member of the IEEE
Awarded by the IEEE which is the world’s leading professional association
23. December 2007: Inverse Problems highlight article
Awarded by Inverse Problems for the paper “Ye YB, Yu HY, Wang G: Cone-beam pseudo-lambda tomography. Inverse Problems 23:203-215, 2007”
24. May 2008, Most cited paper in the Journal of X-ray Science and Technology in the past 5 years (with Wang; 12(2): 97-116, 2004)
25. Feb 2011, SPIE Medical Imaging poster award
With Q. Xu, X.Q. Mou and G. Wang, Paper id: 796130
26. May 2011. Top-ten most cited paper in Phys. Med. Biol.
Reported by the Editorial Office of Physics in Medicine and Biology (For the paper by Yu and Wang, Phys. Med. Biol. 54(9): 2791-2805)
27. June 2011, Inverse Problems highlight collection in 2010
Selected by the Editorial Board of Inverse Problems (for the paper by Yang, Yu, Jiang and Wang, Article id: 035013)
28. Jan. 2012, NSF CAREER award
http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1149679
29. June 2012, Inverse Problems highlight collection in 2011
Selected by the Editorial Board of Inverse Problems (for the paper by Gao, Yu, Osher and Wang, Article id: 115012)
30. January 2013, Research Excellence Award
Awarded by the Wake Forest University Health Sciences for fiscal year 2012
31. February 2013, Inverse Problems highlight collection in 2012
Selected by the Editorial Board of Inverse Problems (for the paper by Yang, Yu, Jiang and Wang, Article id:015001)
32. December 2014, Certificate of Appreciation for Notable Services and Fine Contributions
Certificated by the IEEE Access Journal for services as Guest Editor for the special issue entitled “Emerging CT technologies"
33. March 2015, Featured Special Issue on Spectral CT, IEEE Trans. on Medical Imaging
Guest Editors: Ge Wang, Anthony Butler, Hengyong Yu, Michael Campbell (http://ieee-tmi.org/fast-facts/featured-article.asp?id=4&title=Special-Edition:-Spectral-CT,-March-2015)
34. November 2015, Most Popular Paper List, IEEE Trans. on Medical Imaging
Listed as one of the top 50 most frequently downloaded papers according to the most recent monthly usage statistics for the paper co-authored with Xu et al.(IEEE-TMI, 31(9):1682-1697, 2012).
35. September 2016, Outstanding poster award, SPIE Annual Meeting CT Conference, San Diego, CA
36. March 2017, Recognition for Peer-reviewed Publications (Faculty Symposium) , UMass Lowell
37. November 2017, Recognition for Peer-reviewed Publications (Faculty Symposium), UMass Lowell
38. November 2018, Recognition for Peer-reviewed Publications (Faculty Symposium), UMass Lowell
39. November 2018, Recognition for Research Expenditures>$300K (Faculty Symposium), UMass Lowell
40. November 2019, Recognition for Peer-reviewed Publications (Faculty Symposium), UMass Lowell
41. February 2021, IEEE TMI Distinguished Reviewer (Gold Level, 18-20), TMI Editorial Office
42. 2021 One of Top Scientists in the CS Field, by Research.com (https://research.com/scientists-rankings/computer-science): Hengyong Yu was ranked #4537 in the world and #2260 in USA, 2021
43. August 2022, IEEE TMI Distinguished Reviewer (Gold Level, 20-22), TMI Editorial Office
44. September 2022, IEEE R1 Technological Innovation (Academic) Award, “For pioneering contributions and international leadership in tomographic imaging, especially interior tomography and machine learning-based tomographic imaging”
45. November 2022, Recognition for Peer-reviewed Publications (Faculty Symposium), UMass Lowell