Jie Tian

Expertise: Medical image processing and analysis, molecular imaging, functional imaging

Jie Tian, IEEE Fellow, IAMBE Fellow, received his PhD degree in artificial intelligence from the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA) in 1993. He subsequently joined the University of Pennsylvania as a postdoctoral fellow. Since 1997, Dr. Tian has been a professor at CASIA. He is currently the director of the Beijing Key Laboratory of Molecular Imaging and the Intelligent Medical Research Center, CASIA. He is also the director of the Chinese Society for Molecular Imaging. Dr. Tian’s research covers medical image processing and analysis, molecular imaging, and functional imaging. He has published more than 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals. Both in 2003 and 2004, he won the National Award for Progress in Science and Technology. Besides, he is a winner of the 2010 National Award for the Technological Invention of the multimodal molecular imaging method and system for small animal.