Principle Investigator
Associate 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
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)
Office: 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 Meta
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