Members

Principle Investigator

Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering 
Director, Master of Science in Biomedical Image Computing (MS-BIC)
The Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Affiliated with Electrical and Computer Engineering, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology,
Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, Carle Illinois College of Medicine, Cancer Center at Illinois

4061 Beckman Institute
Email: fanlam1[at]illinois.edu
Tel: 217-300-3713

CV

Education

Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2015
B.S.,   Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University, 2008

Postdoctoral Scholars

Chang Cao (Co-advised with Ryan Dilger and Gene Robinson)

Office: 5247 Beckman Institute
Email: changc7[at]illinois.edu

Education: B.S., Animal Science, Huazhong Agricultural University, 2013 
M.S., Neurophysiology, Minzu University of China, 2017
Ph.D., Neuroendocrinology, Virginia Tech, 2021

Research Interest: epigenetic MRI (eMRI) for brain DNA methylation imaging, application of eMRI for neurodevelopment and neurodegenerative diseases

Timothy Trinklein (Co-advised with Jonathan Sweedler)

Tim TrinkleinOffice: 2424 Beckman Institute
Email: timtk[at]illinois.edu

Education: B.S., Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2018
Ph.D., Analytical Chemistry, University of Washington, 2023

Research Interest: Analytical chemistry, mass spectrometry instrumentation, computational mass spectrometry, neurochemistry and neurodegeneration

 

Graduate Students

Mithunjha Anandakumar

Office : 4053 Beckman Institute
Mail : ma127[at]illinois.edu
Education: B.S., Biomedical Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, 2022.
Research Interest: Machine Learning, Computational Mass Spectrometry Imaging, Multimodal Brain Mapping.

 

 

Xinyu Li

Office: 4035 Beckman Institute
Email: xinyu17[at]illinois.edu

Education: B.S., Biomedical Engineering, University of Arizona, 2019
M.S., Bioengineering, Rice University, 2022

Research Interest: Ultra-high field MRSI, applications of MRSI for neurological diseases and cancer, cancer metabolism

 

Nancy Pham

Office: 4035 Beckman Institute
Email: nancyyp2[at]illinois.edu

Education: B.S., Biomedical Engineering, University of Arizona, 2020
M.D. Student, Carle Illinois College of Medicine, University of Illinois, 2021-Present

Research Interest: Applications of MRI and MRSI for neurological diseases, ultra-high field MRI, understanding pathogenesis of neurological diseases and cancers

 

Yizun Wang

Office: 4035 Beckman Institute
Email: yizunw2[at]illinois.edu

Education: M.Eng., Bioengineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2019
B.S., Biology, China Agricultural University, 2018

Research Interest: Multinuclear MRSI, ultra-high field MRI, applications of MRI and MRSI to brain cancer, and tissue engineering.

 

Zepeng Wang

Office: 4035 Beckman Institute
Email: zepengw2[at]illinois.edu

Education: B.S., Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University, 2019

Research Interest: Multidimensional magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging, quantitative MRI/MRSI

 

 

Ruiyang Zhao

Office: 4035 Beckman Institute
Email: rz17[at]illinois.edu

Education: B.S., Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2020

Research Interest: Machine learning enhanced MRI/MRSI, Multidimensional MR spectroscopic imaging.

 

Alumni

Yahang Li PhD, Bioengineering, 2023. Now at Siemens Healthineers

Richard Xie PhD, Bioengineering, 2023. Now at Siemens Advanta

Lilac (Yinmeng) Lai   Master of Science in Computer Science program at UIUC

Emma Tumbleson  Summer REU Student, 2021. Washington State University

Kaiyu Zhang     Summer Exchange Undergraduate Student, 2019. Now at University of Washington, Seattle