Yi Wang Laboratory

Yi Wang, Ph.D., received his B.S. in nuclear physics from Fudan University and both his M.S. in theoretical physics and doctorate in medical physics from the University of Wisconsin. Wang holds the Faculty Distinguished Professorship in the Department of Radiology and is a tenured Professor of Physics in Radiology, Director of the Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Research Institute at Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM), and Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Cornell University. His major research interests include applying and developing data science, machine learning, optimization, physics, and statistical inference techniques for medical imaging acquisition and analysis. Wang's recent projects include Quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) to solve the field-to-susceptibility inverse problem using the Bayesian approach and Quantitative transport mapping (QTM) to solve the inverse problem from imaging to tissue perfusion quantification.

Kelly Gillen received her Bachelor of Science in biological engineering from Cornell University in 2004. She received her Master of Science in biomedical engineering from Tufts University in 2006, and her doctorate from the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences in 2014. While a graduate student at Cornell, Kelly conducted her Ph.D. thesis research at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, where she received a fellowship from the Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program to investigate the role of Focal Adhesion Kinase in breast cancer initiation, progression, and metastasis. She has conducted research projects at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research and Boston Scientific. Kelly received her Master of Business Administration and Master of Science in Healthcare Leadership from Cornell University in May 2021. Her research interests include using imaging and histological techniques to understand the contribution of iron overload to neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease. 

Renjiu Hu received his bachelor's degree in applied physics from the University of Science and Technology of China. He is currently a doctoral student in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University. His research interests include perfusion and permeability quantification of arterial spin labeling (ASL) images and deep learning.

Jiahao Li is a Ph.D. student in the biomedical engineering (BME) program at Cornell University. He grew up in China and completed his B.S. in engineering physics and economics at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He is interested in signal and image processing and reconstruction. His main project is on cardiac magnetic resonance imaging; specifically, he is developing a novel magnetic resonance (MR) data acquisition and reconstruction scheme for cardiac quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM).  

Dominick grew up just a 45-minute train ride away from New York City on the South Shore of Long Island. He studied bioengineering (even taking some extra physics classes for fun) and conducted research on endothelial cell migration as an undergraduate at Hofstra University. At Cornell, he is a doctoral student studying biomedical engineering in the Wang Lab. His project focuses on further developing techniques for Quantitative Transport Mapping (QTM) and applying QTM to clinical images. In his free time, Dom enjoys bowling, collecting and listening to records, and reading physics texts. 

Mert Sisman is from Ankara, Turkey, where he also received both his BSc. and MSc. degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering. He is now a Ph.D. student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at Cornell. Always interested in medical research, and a huge fan of math, he found his way into MRI research.  He is currently interested in developing novel algorithms to improve quantitative imaging modalities. You can always find him playing video games unless he is doing a movie marathon

Carly Skudin is the Research Program Manager of the MRI Research Institute. She works closely with Dr. Yi Wang and other MRIRI investigators to monitor ongoing research projects; oversee statistical and data management operations; provide leadership during the research grant process; execute grant writing, scientific publication, and regulatory reviews; and manage the appointments of the lab's faculty and students. Skudin graduated from Colgate University with a degree in neuroscience.

Qihao Zhang received his bachelor's degree from the biomedical engineering department at Tsinghua University, China. He is currently a doctoral student in biomedical engineering at Cornell University. His research interests include perfusion and permeability quantification form-contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance (MR) images and arterial spin labeling (ASL) sequence design. 

Hangwei Zhuang is from Jiangsu, China. She studied math and biomedical engineering as an undergraduate at the College of William and Mary and Columbia University. Her research project focuses on quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM).