Xiaochuan Pan
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PROFESSIONAL BIOGRAPHY: Xiaochuan Pan received his B. S. in Physics from Beijing University in 1982, M. S. in Physics from Institute of Physics of Academia Sinica in 1985, M. S. and Ph. D. in Physics from The University of Chicago in 1988 and in 1991. He subsequently became a post-doctoral fellow, and then an NIH post-doctoral fellow, in medical imaging physics in the Department of Radiology at The University of Chicago before being promoted to the rank of Assistant Professor there in November 1994. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Radiology, the College, the Committee on Medical Physics, and the Cancer Research Center at The University of Chicago. Dr. Pan's research interest centers on imaging physics and mathematics, signal processing, image quality assessment, and their applications to a wide range of medical imaging problems. The research effort in Dr. Pan’s laboratory is, and has been supported, in part by grants from NIH, DOE, DOD, numerous foundations, and industrial collaborators. Dr. Pan has authored and co-authored more than 250 journal and proceedings papers and several U.S. patents. He has received numerous awards, including the Early Achievement Award of IEEE NPSS, and is a fellow of AIMBE, IEEE, OSA, and SPIE. He is, and has been, a charter or ad hoc member of study sections or a grant reviewer for NIH, NSF, NSF of China, NRO, NSERC of Canada, various universities, and private funding agencies. Dr. Pan is serving, and has served, as a member of the technical committees for and as a program, track, symposium, or session chair for a number of professional conferences. He is currently serving as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, and Medical Physics (guest) and as a member of editorial board of Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography and Journal of X-ray Science and Technology. He is also a regular reviewer for a considerable number of leading journals in the field. Dr. Pan is the recipient of the Kurt Rossmann Teaching Award of the Committee on Medical Physics. He is mentoring, and has mentored, a considerable number of students and post-doctoral fellows, many of whom have received awards for their accomplishments. Many of the past students and post-doctoral fellows of Dr. Pan have been successful in developing their own research programs in academia institutions and leading industrial R&D centers and have established themselves as leading investigators recognized by the peers in their areas. .