The Center for Imaging and Surgical Innovation held Open House at the Richardson IQ

The Center for Imaging and Surgical Innovation at the University of Texas at Dallas and UT Southwestern Medical Center had a successful open house at the Headquarters for the Richardson Innovation Quarter (IQ) on December 1, 2022. More than 200 faculty, students, and industry leaders attended the Richardson IQ Centers Open House. Thank UT Dallas Office of Research and Innovation and the City of Richardson for providing the facility and space at the Richardson IQ.

Dr. Baowei Fei served as the Chair for the NIH Study Section – ZRG1 MOSS-V

Review activities of the NIH Center for Scientific Review (CSR) are organized into Review Branches (RBs). Each RB represents a cluster of study sections around a general scientific area. NIH grant applications generally are assigned first to an RB, and then to a specific study section within that RB for evaluation of scientific merit. An NIH study section consists of experts focused on a particular research field who are charged with reviewing NIH grant proposals. Special Emphasis Panels (SEPs) are held to review applications on special topics and members conflict applications.  The NIH Center for Scientific Review invited Dr. Fei to chair the NIH Study Section Special Emphasis Panel ZRG1 MOSS-V – Member Conflict: Musculoskeletal Sciences in November 2022.

Dr. Baowei Fei organized a Special Panel Session on Engineering Medicine at the BMES Meeting

At the Annual Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), Dr. Baowei Fei organized a Special Panel Session entitled “A new era of engineering medicine – how to educate the next generation of biomedical engineers” and invited national leaders in the space of bioengineering and engineering medicine to discuss the emerging trend on how to educate and train our next generation of biomedical engineers, how to shape and advance the science and technology of bioengineering through innovative research and inspiring education, and how to engage faculty, researchers, and students to play leading roles from basic science discovery to the creation, clinical evolution, and commercialization of new technologies, devices and therapies to improve human health. In a new era of precision medicine, engineering and medicine are converging to solve complex biological and medical problems. Biomedical engineering and computing will be a leading force where quantitative methods of engineering and systems sciences will have a pivotal role in disease detection, diagnostics, and treatment.

Dr. Baowei Fei organized the Inaugural Workshop on Imaging and Data Science

The Workshop on Imaging and Data Science brought together the investigators at the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas) and built research collaborations between UT Dallas and UT Southwestern Medical Center (UTSW). The workshop brought engineers, computer scientists, surgeons, radiologists, and clinicians together with the goal of translating innovative imaging and surgical technologies from our engineering laboratories at UT Dallas to clinical settings at UT Southwestern for improving human health. More information can be found from the Workshop website (https://imaging.utdallas.edu/workshop/).

Congratulations to all the winners of the poster awards: 1) Undergraduate Student Poster Award –- Sahil Chilukri from UT Southwestern; 2) Graduate Student Poster Award First Place – Milad Almasian from UT Dallas; 3) Graduate Student Poster Award Second Place –- Chanda Bhandari from UT Dallas; 4) Graduate Student Poster Award Third Place –- Xinyuan Zhang from UT Dallas; 5) Postdoctoral Associate Poster Award – Tianyuan Wang from UT Southwestern.

Summer Undergraduate Student Received the Poster Award

The Summer Platform for Undergraduate Research (SPUR) is a unique, campus-wide symposium for students working on research at The University of Texas at Dallas. It is designed to be a “capstone” for student projects developed during the summer. The SPUR includes a number of on-going summer research programs at UTD, including the Clark Summer Research Program, the Bioengineering Undergraduate Research Scholars program, (NSF) Research Experiences for Undergraduates and others. Ofelia Azucena Gomez Chacon is an REU undergraduate student who worked in Dr. Baowei Fei’s research lab and won a Poster Award for her research work on hyperspectral imaging.

Dr. Baowei Fei served as the Chair for the NIH Study Section – ZRG1 SBIB-C (03)

Review activities of the NIH Center for Scientific Review (CSR) are organized into Review Branches (RBs). Each RB represents a cluster of study sections around a general scientific area. NIH grant applications generally are assigned first to an RB, and then to a specific study section within that RB for evaluation of scientific merit. An NIH study section consists experts focused on a particular research field who are charged with reviewing NIH grant proposals. The NIH Center for Scientific Review invited Dr. Fei to chair the NIH Study Section Special Emphasis Panel ZRG1 SBIB-C (03) – Member Conflict: Medical Imaging Investigations in July 2022

High School Students won the Science Education Award at the CAST-STEM Program

The CAST-STEM Program aims to create synergies in STEM education by providing high-school students hands-on study experience with current university professors at the University of Texas at Dallas for a consecutive 6 to 7 weeks. Four high school students, Riley Yuan, Eric Yi, Nancy Yan, and Rin Hayashi, conducted a research project under the direct supervision of Patric Bettati in Dr. Baowei Fei’s research laboratory. At the closing ceremony, the team won the Science Education Award for their project on augmented reality for medical applications.

High School Students won the Science Education Award at the CAST-STEM Program

The CAST-STEM Program aims to create synergies in STEM education by providing high-school students hands-on study experience with current university professors at the University of Texas at Dallas for a consecutive 6 to 7 weeks. Four high school students, Riley Yuan, Eric Yi, Nancy Yan, and Rin Hayashi, conducted a research project under the direct supervision of Mr. Patric Bettati in Dr. Baowei Fei’s research laboratory. At the closing ceremony, the team won the Science Education Award for their project on augmented reality for medical applications.

Dr. Baowei Fei delivered a keynote talk at the International Association for Spectral Imaging (IASIM) Biannual Conference in Denmark.

The objective of the International Association for Spectral Imaging (IASIM) is to provide a unified open and interactive forum for the exchange of information and ideas within the general spectral imaging community, regardless of the image spectral range (ultraviolet, visible, near, mid, or far infrared, or mass spectrometry) or spatial range (microscopic, macroscopic, remote sensing). The biannual conference brought together speakers, contributors, attendees and exhibitors from areas covering all aspects of spectral imaging (microscopic, macroscopic, remote sensing) and a large variety of spectroscopic techniques. Dr. Fei was invited to give a keynote talk on medical hyperspectral imaging at the international conference.

Undergraduate Student Received the SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship

International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) Optics and Photonics Education Scholarships are to support outstanding students located anywhere in the world, in high school (pre-university/secondary), community and technical, undergraduate and graduate programs, who are studying in a related field of optics and photonics. Armand Paul Rathgeb from Dr. Baowei Fei’s lab received the 2022 SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship in the amount of $3,000 to study optical imaging technologies.