I am a medical physicist at the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Michigan.
My current research focuses on interpretable machine learning for modeling oncologic outcomes. I am also interested in big data infrastructure for clinical decision support and workflow automation.
Before moving to Ann Arbor, Michigan, I completed my residency training at the University of Pennsylvania, where I also served as the physics resident education officer.
My training in medical physics started at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, where I completed a CAMPEP-accredited postdoctoral certificate program. While working as a research fellow there, I developed a GUI software application for real-time motion management for proton therapy. This custom tool, named Wukong, provides added assurance for internal tumor/target localization during setup and beam-on. It has been translated into clinical use as a standard operating procedure (SOP).
In my earlier basic science pursuit, I studied nanoconfined polymer electrolytes for safer rechargeable lithium-ion batteries at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, via synchrotron x-ray scattering experiments performed at the Advanced Photon Source and the National Synchrotron Light Source II.
I enjoy solving scientific/quantitative problems by programming. In particular, I am fluent in Python and familiar with its scientific eco-system (i.e. NumPy, SciPy, Matplotlib, LmFit, Mayavi, scikit-image etc.). I like readable, elegant NumPy vectorization solutions, but am also comfortable with extending Python via Numba or pybind11/C++ for numerical performance boosting. For larger coding projects, I use C#/.NET (LINQ is marvelous) and strive for robustness and maintainability through good software engineering principles.
Therapeutic Medical Physics Residency, 2022
University of Pennsylvania
CAMPEP Accredited Postdoctoral Certificate Program in Medical Physics, 2020
Mayo Clinic
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, 2015
University of Colorado Boulder
B.E. in Materials Science and Engineering, 2010
Zhejiang University