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
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. 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 Societysince 2008 and for th
IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imagingsince 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
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from 2009 to 2012. She was an editorial board member for
Scientific Reports by
Nature Research
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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
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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
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), 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
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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)