GE WANG, PHD
RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE
WALSTON CHUBB AWARD FOR INNOVATION
For his pioneering contributions to medical imaging, which have generated major impacts on research, development, and healthcare, including his cone-beam CT method and AI-based imaging leadership.
Biography
Ge Wang is Clark & Crossan Chair Professor and Director of Biomedical Imaging Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA. He pioneered the spiral/helical cone-beam method in the early 1990s and wrote many follow-up papers in this area. There are ~200 million medical CT scans yearly, a majority of which are performed in the spiral cone-beam mode.
He published the first perspective on AI-empowered tomographic imaging in 2016, and a series of papers on diverse deep learning-based imaging topics. He wrote 550+ journal articles in PNAS, Nature, Nature Machine Intelligence, Nature Communications, and other well-known journals. He gave many seminars, keynotes and plenaries including NIH AI Imaging Presentations (2018) and SPIE O+P Plenary (2021). He is Fellow of IEEE, SPIE, AAPM, OSA, AIMBE, AAAS, and National Academy of Inventors (NAI). He received various awards including IEEE EMBS Academic Career Achievement Award (2021), IEEE R1 Outstanding Teaching Award (2021), SPIE Aden & Marjorie Meinel Technology Achievement Award (2022), and Sigma Xi Walston Chubb Award for Innovation (2022).