Leslie Ying is an American

biomedical engineering Biomedical engineering (BME) or medical engineering is the application of engineering principles and design concepts to medicine and biology for healthcare purposes (e.g., diagnostic or therapeutic). BME is also traditionally logical sciences ...

scientist in the field of medical imaging. She is the Clifford C. Furnas Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Electrical Engineering at

University at Buffalo, The State University of New York The State University of New York at Buffalo, commonly called the University at Buffalo (UB) and sometimes called SUNY Buffalo, is a public research university with campuses in Buffalo and Amherst, New York. The university was founded in 1846 ...

. Ying is the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging and is also an

American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) is a non-profit organization founded in 1991, and headquartered in Washington. It represents 50,000 medical and biomedical engineers, and academic institutions, private industry, ...

(AIMBE) Fellow.

Education

Ying graduated with her

bachelor's degree A bachelor's degree (from Middle Latin ''baccalaureus'') or baccalaureate (from Modern Latin ''baccalaureatus'') is an undergraduate academic degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting three to six ...

in electrical engineering at

Tsinghua University Tsinghua University (; abbr. THU) is a national public research university in Beijing, China. The university is funded by the Ministry of Education. The university is a member of the C9 League, Double First Class University Plan, Projec ...

in 1997. In 1999 and 2003, respectively, she graduated with her master's degree and Doctorate of Philosophy from the

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Univ ...

Career

From 2003 to 2011, Ying was an assistant and then associate professor of electrical engineering and

computer science Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to practical disciplines (includi ...

at the

University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee The University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (UW–Milwaukee, UWM, or Milwaukee) is a public urban research university in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It is the largest university in the Milwaukee metropolitan area and a member of the University of Wiscon ...

. She joined the

University at Buffalo, the State University of New York The State University of New York at Buffalo, commonly called the University at Buffalo (UB) and sometimes called SUNY Buffalo, is a public research university with campuses in Buffalo and Amherst, New York. The university was founded in 1846 ...

in Spring 2012 as a professor in the departments of biomedical engineering and electrical engineering. She was named the Clifford C. Furnas Professor of Electrical and Biomedical Engineering in September 2019.

Research interests

Ying heads the Computational Biomedical Imaging Laboratory (CBIL) and her research interests center around magnetic resonance imaging. She is specifically interested in image reconstruction,

compressed sensing Compressed sensing (also known as compressive sensing, compressive sampling, or sparse sampling) is a signal processing technique for efficiently acquiring and reconstructing a signal, by finding solutions to underdetermined linear systems. This ...

, and

machine learning Machine learning (ML) is a field of inquiry devoted to understanding and building methods that 'learn', that is, methods that leverage data to improve performance on some set of tasks. It is seen as a part of artificial intelligence. Machine ...

. Her current work involves using parallel magnetic resonance imaging using multichannel receiver coils, sparsity / compressed sensing signal recovery, and

super-resolution microscopy Super-resolution microscopy is a series of techniques in optical microscopy that allow such images to have resolutions higher than those imposed by the diffraction limit, which is due to the diffraction of light. Super-resolution imaging techni ...

. She has published three open source

Matlab MATLAB (an abbreviation of "MATrix LABoratory") is a proprietary multi-paradigm programming language and numeric computing environment developed by MathWorks. MATLAB allows matrix manipulations, plotting of functions and data, implementa ...

code libraries: two-dimensional phase unwrapping, joint estimation of coil sensitivities and image in parallel imaging (JSENSE) packages, and Nonlinear GRAPPA: a kernel approach to parallel MRI reconstruction.

Professional Activities

Since 2019, Ying has served as Editor-in-Chief of ''IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging''. She has also been an associate editor for the IEEE Annual International Conference o
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
since 2008 and for th
IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging
since 2013. Ying previously served as deputy editor for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine from 2012 to 2019 and as an associate editor for

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operation ...

from 2009 to 2012. She was an editorial board member for Scientific Reports by

Nature Research Nature Portfolio (formerly known as Nature Publishing Group and Nature Research) is a division of the international scientific publishing company Springer Nature that publishes academic journals, magazines, online databases, and services in scie ...

from 2016 to 2019 and for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine in 2012. She was a member of the

IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operati ...

administrative committee from 2013 to 2015 and of the technical program committees for the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Annual Conference in 2014 and the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging in 2011.

Awards and patents

Awards

National Science Foundation CAREER Award The National Science Foundation CAREER awards, presented by the National Science Foundation (NSF), are in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through research and education, and the integration of these endeavors i ...

, 2009 * Fellow of

(AIMBE), 2019–present *

University at Buffalo The State University of New York at Buffalo, commonly called the University at Buffalo (UB) and sometimes called SUNY Buffalo, is a public research university with campuses in Buffalo and Amherst, New York. The university was founded in 18 ...

SEAS Senior Researcher of the Year Award, 2017

Personal life

She has one son called Grant and is married to James Wang.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ying, Leslie Living people American biomedical engineers Tsinghua University alumni University at Buffalo faculty Grainger College of Engineering alumni University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee faculty Year of birth missing (living people)