URMC / Labs / Zhong Lab / Lab Members / Alumni Alumni Tong Zhu, PhD, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Rochester, Thesis title: “Towards Optimal Human Diffusion Imaging (DTI) Protocols”, 2009 (Present position –Medical Physicist, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Patrick Connelly, PhD, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Rochester, Thesis title: “Functional MRI at 9.4Tesla for the Evaluation of Vascular Volume and Deoxygenated Hemoglobin Content in Murine Tumors”, 2006 (Present position – Ceased) Chungki Wong, PhD, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Thesis title: “Theoretical Studies of the Properties of Magnetic Resonance Signal Formed under the Influence of Distant Dipolar Field”, 2007 (Present position – Postdoctoral Research Associate at Laureate Institute for Brain Research) Xiaoxu Liu, PhD, Department of Electrical and computational Engineering, University of Rochester, Thesis title: “Magnetic Resonance Diffusion Tensor Imaging: Distortion Correction Methods and Their Applications in High-Resolution In-Vivo Monkey Brain Scans”, 2009 (Present position –Research Scientist, General Electrics) Merry Meni, PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Rochester, Thesis title: “Acceleration Of High Angular And Spatial Resolution Diffusion Imaging Using Compressed Sensing”, 2013 (Present position – Research Scientist, University of Iowa) Bilan Liu, PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Rochester, Thesis title: “Spatial Regression Analysis of Diffusion Tensor Imaging for Longitudinal studies”, 2015 (Present position – Research Scientist, California) Zhong Chen, Post-doctoral trainee, Department of Radiology, University of Rochester, 2000-2004 (Present position – Professor and Vice Dean, College of Physics, Xiamen University, China) Hongyan Ni, Post-doctoral trainee, Department of Radiology, University of Rochester, 2002-2005 (Present position – Professor and Director of MRI Center, Tianjin First Hospital, Tianjin, China) Zhiwei Chen, visiting scientist, Xiamen University, 2005 (Present position –Associate Professor, Xiamen University, China) Bingwen Zheng Post-doctoral trainee, Department of Radiology, University of Rochester, 2005-2006 (Present position – Research Scientist, Wayne State University) Yanqin Lin, PhD thesis, via joint training program of University of Rochester and Chinese Education Ministry, 2007-2009 (Present position –Assistant Professor, Xiamen University, China) Wanjiang Yu, visiting scholar, 2008-2009 (Present position – Chairman of Radiology, Ximen 1st Hospital, China) Yuqing Huang, PhD, via joint training program of University of Rochester and Chinese Education Ministry (Present position – Faculty of Xiamen University) Kuo-Jung Lee, Post-doctoral fellow, Rochester Center for Brain Imaging , 2008-2010 (Present position – Faculty Tainan University, Taiwan) Jianfeng Bao, thesis, via joint training program of University of Rochester and Chinese Education Ministry, 2013-2015 ( (Present position – Scientist, Zhengzhou 1st Hospital China) Congo Cai, Visiting scholar, 2012-2014 (Present position - Associate Professor, Xiamen University, China)