Dayang Wang

Curriculum Vitae

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Education

Ph.D., Computer Engineering — University of Massachusetts Lowell

GPA 4.0/4.0 · Advisor: Prof. Hengyong Yu

Dissertation: Machine Learning and Applications to Medical Imaging & Food Science.

B.S., Computer Science — Beijing Normal University

GPA 3.6/4.0

Honors graduation thesis on machine learning for pulsar search.

Selected Grant Involvement

  • Co-investigator, NIH/NIBIB R01 EB034737 — Unsupervised Deep Photon-Counting CT Reconstruction for Human Extremity Imaging.
  • Co-investigator, NIH/NIBIB R01 EB032807 — AI-based Cardiac CT.
  • Co-investigator, NIH/NCI R21 CA264772 — SPECT with a Compton Camera for Thyroid Cancer Imaging.
  • Co-investigator, AI-enabled Nondestructive Surveillance of Foodborne Pathogen, US CCDC.
  • Co-investigator, Machine Learning Enabled Detection of Pathogenic and Spoilage Microorganisms on Foods, FDA.

Technical Expertise

  • CT/MRI physics, image reconstruction, denoising, and synthesis
  • Contrast-enhanced MRI and MRI dose simulation
  • Diffusion models, LLMs, vision-language models, transformers
  • PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, Docker, DICOM
  • Python, C, C++, Java, MATLAB