Hengyong Yu received his Bachelor degrees in information science & technology (1998) and computational mathematics (1998) respectively, and his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering (2003) from Xi’an Jiaotong University. Now, he is a Professor and the Director of the Imaging and Informatics Lab, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, 01854. His research focuses on data-driven artificial intelligence methods for medical imaging and image processing, with an emphasis on computed tomography. He has authored/coauthored >200 peer-reviewed journal papers with an H-index of 48. He was the founding Editor-in-Chief of JSM Biomedical Imaging Data Papers, serves as an Editorial Board member or associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Medical Physics, IEEE Access , Signal Processing, CT Theory and Applications, etc. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), and a member of American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), and International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE). In 2005, he was honored for an outstanding doctoral dissertation by Xi’an Jiaotong University, and received the first prize for a best natural science paper from the Association of Science & Technology of Zhejiang Province. In January 2012, he received an NSF CAREER award for development of CS-based interior tomography. In September 2022, he received the IEEE R1 Technological Innovation Award (Academic) for “pioneering contributions and international leadership in tomographic imaging, especially interior tomography and machine learning-based tomographic imaging”.
