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Nan Wang, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She received her PhD degree in Bioengineering Department from UCLA in 2020 and worked as a postdoctoral scientist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center before joining Dr. Setsompop's Lab. Nan has been particularly interested in the development of fast acquisition/reconstruction techniques to improve the performance of MRI. She developed the multitasking dynamic contrast enhanced MRI technique that is able to quantitatively differentiate diseased tissues from normal in multiple organs with reduced dose, high spatiotemporal resolution, and motion-resolved acquisition. She will continue to work on the development of fast multi-parametric MRI techniques.

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Congyu Liao, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging and the Technical Director of the Neuroimaging Technology Research Center (NTRC) at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He received his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Zhejiang University in 2018 and completed postdoctoral training at the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, under the mentorship of Dr. Kawin Setsompop. Prior to joining UCSF in 2025, he was an Instructor at Stanford University. His research focuses on developing advanced diffusion and quantitative MRI techniques, with applications in neurodevelopment and neurological disorders.

Award: R01HD114719; Title: Robust and precise imaging of infant brain development with magnetic resonance imaging; Goal: This project aims to develop advanced in vivo MRI technologies for studying infant brain development. The objective is to achieve motion-robust, high-resolution (660µm isotropic) whole-brain quantitative MRI and diffusion MRI within a clinically feasible scan time.

Award: K99EB035178; Title: Fast and robust quantitative MRI with tissue-susceptibility mapping of the human brain; Goal: To develop a sEPTI technique for T2* and QSM mapping technique, that can achieve submillimeter resolution at clinically available field strength (3T) with short scan time (1-2 minutes), that are robust to motion and B0 variation, and that can be applied to challenging cohort that as the pediatric population and geriatric population at different platform (3T or 7T).

2024 ISMRM Summa Cum Laude Merit Award

2024 ISMRM Junior Fellows of the Society

The Academy for Radiology and Biomedical Imaging Research announces it 2023 Class of Distinguished Investigators. Established in 2012 to acknowledge and celebrate high levels of achievement in the field of imaging research. The award is presented at a ceremony held during the annual RSNA meeting. Recipients of the award will become members of the Council of Distinguished Investigators of the Academy.

"Flexible use of AC/DC coil for eddy-currents and concomitant fields mitigation with applications in diffusion-prepared non-Cartesian sampling" - Received Magna Cum Laude