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Xiaoqing Wang

Xiaoqing Wang, PhD

Xiaoqing Wang is an assistant professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School and a scientist in the department of radiology at Boston Children’s Hospital. He received his doctoral degree (Dr. rer. nat.) in physics from the Max Planck Institute and the University of Göttingen, Germany, under the supervision of Professor Dr. Jens Frahm. Before joining Boston Children’s Hospital, he was a research fellow at the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital. He also previously served as a research scientist at University Medical Center Göttingen. Dr. Wang’s research focuses on motion-robust pulse sequence design, quantitative MRI, model-based image reconstruction, and their translational applications in fetal and pediatric MRI.

Tao Hong, PhD

Tao Hong, PhD

Dr. Hong is a Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the Henry and Marilyn Taub Faculty of Computer Science in 2021 at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas at Austin and at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His research interests include numerical optimization, computational imaging, and reliable AI. He is particularly interested in developing provably reliable computational methods to address challenges in MRI, scientific computing, signal processing, and machine learning, as well as in building reliable AI models for imaging science.

Moritz Blumenthal

Moritz Blumenthal

Moritz Blumenthal is a research fellow at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital. He earned his doctoral degree (Dr. rer. nat.) in mathematics from the University of Göttingen, Germany. In addition to his current position at Boston Children's, he is also a research fellow at the Institute of Biomedical Imaging at Graz University of Technology under the guidance of Professor Martin Uecker. Dr. Blumenthal’s research focuses on various aspects of computational MRI, including deep learning–based reconstruction, Bayesian reconstruction with diffusion priors, model-based reconstruction, and efficient computational algorithms. His current work is focused on developing 3D motion-robust quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) reconstructions.

Clemente Velasco-Annis

Clemente Velasco-Annis

Clemente Velasco-Annis is a senior research study coordinator in the department of neurology at Boston Children’s Hospital and also supports our work in the department of radiology. He received a BS in biology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2012. Since joining Boston Children’s Hospital in 2013, he has helped advance fetal MRI acquisition and analysis techniques, and has worked on the testing and evaluation of automated brain segmentation methods for human brain MRI.

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