Dr. Zhiyong Zhang is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Biomedical Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His research interests lie in the broad areas of magnetic resonance imaging system and technique development, as well as image processing. He is also interested in translating novel MR techniques into diagnostic medicine and clinical treatment practice. His lab develops MRS/MRSI sequences together with motion tracking system that allow robustly detecting signals from small molecules in the brain for early diagnostic and treatment target of disease. Another main focus is integration of MRI diagnosis and treatment, including real-time imaging and reconstruction, overcoming field inhomogeneities et. al.

Dr. Zhiyong Zhang received his B.S. (2010) and Ph.D. (2015) in Electronic Science from Xiamen University. From 2013 to 2015, he was a visiting scholar at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. Thereafter, he continued as a Koshland Postdoctoral Fellow advised by Prof. Lucio Frydman at the Weizmann Institute from 2015 to 2017 where he also received a VATAT fellowship and a Dean’s fellowship. From 2017 to 2019, he was a postdoctoral associate in Prof. Michael (Miki) Lustig’s group in the EECS Department at the University of California, Berkeley. In both 2016 and 2018, he was nominated as a Rabi Young Investigator Award Finalist by the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM). In 2019, Dr. Zhang was recognized as a Junior Fellow by the ISMRM.