Leslie Ying


Leslie Ying is an American biomedical engineering scientist in the field of medical imaging. She is the Clifford C. Furnas Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Electrical Engineering at University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. Ying is the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging and is also an American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering Fellow.

Education

Ying graduated with her bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at Tsinghua University in 1997. In 1999 and 2003, respectively, she graduated with her master's degree and Doctorate of Philosophy from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Career

She was an Assistant and then Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee from 2003 to 2011. She joined the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York in Spring 2012 and is currently a Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Electrical Engineering.

Research interests

Ying heads the Computational Biomedical Imaging Laboratory and her research interests center around magnetic resonance imaging. She is specifically interested in image reconstruction, compressed sensing, and machine learning. Her current work involves using parallel magnetic resonance imaging using multichannel receiver coils, sparsity / compressed sensing signal recovery, and super-resolution microscopy. She has published three open source Matlab code libraries: two-dimensional phase unwrapping, joint estimation of coil sensitivities and image in parallel imaging packages, and Nonlinear GRAPPA: a kernel approach to parallel MRI reconstruction.

Professional Activities

Ying has sat and sits on several professional committees

Awards