Zhi-Pei Liang received his Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University in 1989. He is a professor in the U of I Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a full-time faculty member in the Beckman Bioimaging Science and Technology group. His fields of professional interest are magnetic resonance imaging, imaging informatics, and machine learning.
Honors: Early Career Achievement Award, IEEE Engineering in Biology and Medicine Society (1999); Senior Member, IEEE (1998); Daily Illini Incomplete List of Excellent Teachers (1998, 1999); Beckman Fellow, Center for Advanced Study, UIUC (1997); Outstanding Staff Member Award, the Panhellenic Council of UIUC (1995); National Science Foundation CAREER Award (1995); National Science Foundation RIA Award (1994); Sylvia Sorkin Greenfield (Best Paper) Award, Medical Physics (1990).