ULIS

People

 

Principal Investigator

Professor Meng-Xing Tang
Tang

Professor Mengxing Tang joined the Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in 2006, and was promoted to a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in 2011, a Reader in 2015, and a Professor in Biomedical Imaging in 2018. Before moving to London, he was a Departmental Lecturer in the Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford.

He founded the Ultrasound Laboratory for Imaging and Sensing (ULIS, previously known as the Ultrasound Imaging Group) at Imperial College in 2006.

His research has been funded by EPSRC, the Wellcome Trust, CRUK, the Royal Society,  and Badrit Foundation. He is an Associate Editor of  the IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, and is on the Editorial Advisory Board of Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology.

 

Post-Doctoral Researchers

Dr Matthieu Toulemonde

NIHR funded Research Associate to work on super-resolution imaging of lymph nodes in breast cancer patients.
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Previously:

  • EPSRC and BHF funded Research Associate working on ultrafast Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound (CEUS) imaging for echocardiographic application (2015 – 2018).
  • Teaching and research, Attaché Temporaire d’Enseignement et de Recherche (ATER), Univeristé Lyon 1, France (2014 – 2015)
  • Studied for PhD in new beamforming strategy for improved ultrasound imaging: application to biological tissues nonlinear imaging, Université Lyon 1, France and Università di Firenze, Italy (2011 – 2014)
  • Research master’s degree of Optic, Image and Vision studies, Université Jean Monnet, France (2009 – 2011)

Dr Kai Riemer
Visiting fellow
Previously:
  • PhD on measurement of blood flow and pro-inflammatory activity in rabbit aorta from the Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London (2017-2021).
  • Research Associate at German Heart Institute Berlin (DHZB, Germany) working on congenital heart defects and the development of a novel bioprosthetic heart valve.
  • M.Sc. Biomedical Engineering (TU Berlin, Germany) working on biofluid mechanics and the development of an automated error correction using passive BCI for defined movement pattern of a hand prosthesis.
  • EPSRC funded Research Associate working on 3D super-resolution imaging.

Dr Jipeng Yan
CZI funded Research Associate working on 3D beamforming and super-resolution imaging.
Previously:
  • PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, working on ultrasound-based human-machine interface (2017-2021).
  • MSc in Mechatronics Engineering at Harbin Institute of Technology, working on ultrasonic motor (2015-2017).
  • BEng in Mechanical Design at Manufacturing and Automation at Harbin Institute of Technology. (2011-2015).

Dr Cameron Smith
Visiting Researcher from the Shapiro lab at Caltech funded by the Human Frontier Science Program working on ultrasound imaging of genetically engineered cells.
Previously:
  • EPSRC funded PhD in real-time monitoring of ultrasound therapy, University of Oxford (2017-2021)
  • MEng in Biomedical Engineering with Electrical Engineering, Imperial College London (2016-2017)

Dr Su Yan
BBSRC funded Research Associate working on in vivo super-resolution ultrasound localisation microscopy.
Previous:
  • PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, working on ‘Spectral Deconvolution and Spatial Super-resolution for 3D Datacubes Collected from Old Master Paintings with Macro X-ray Fluorescence Scanning’ (2018-2022).
  • MSc in Communication Engineering, The University of Manchester (2016-2017).
  • Beng in Communication Engineering, Jilin University, China (2012-2016).

Dr Oscar Bates
EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellow working on 3D ultrasound tomography of the human brain.
Previous:
  • MRes/PhD researcher working towards ultrasound tomography of the human brain, he has a particular interest in leveraging computational techniques to improve medical imaging.
  • Research Scientist / Senior Research Scientist with IBEX Innovations. Oscar focused on developing statistical models to extract information from a novel x-ray imaging technology. This technology has applications in the Medical, Portable Security and Food Inspection markets.
  • MPhys Physics at University of York. A course with strong theoretical and practical components, his project investigated the properties of magnetic thin films.

Dr Joseph Hansen-Shearer
Research Associate
  Previously:
  • PhD researcher working on three-dimensional ultrasound cardiac flow imaging.
  • Technical Consultant in Physics at Simbeyond B.V. working with OLEDs, OPVs and OFETs (2017-2018).
  • MPhys in Physics at University of Edinburgh (2012-2017).

 

PhD Students

Megan Morris
PhD researcher working on the application of magnetic resonance imaging and super-resolution ultrasound to monitor tumour blood delivery during breast cancer radiotherapy.
Previous:
  • Research placement with the Imaging for Radiotherapy Adaptation team at the Institute of Cancer Research (2019). Developed a software for 2D tracking of kidney motion for the purpose of protecting the kidneys during upper abdominal cancer radiotherapy.
  • MSc in Natural Sciences at Lancaster University with a study abroad year at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2016-2020). Associated with the Nonlinear and Biomedical Physics Research Group at Lancaster University for a fourth-year research project investigating the mammalian timing system.

Rifkat Zaydullin
PhD researcher in machine learning applications to ultrasound imaging.
Previous:
  • MSci in Physics at Imperial College London (2016-2020)

Laura Taylor
PhD research in super-resolution ultrasound imaging.
Previous:
  • MSc in Biomedical Engineering with a focus in Medical Physics and Imaging at Imperial College London (2019-2020)
  • Associate Research Engineer at HJ Science & Technology working on instrumentation and software development for chemical and biological analysis systems (2018-2019)
  • BSc in Bioengineering and Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley (2013-2017)

Bruno Grandi Sgambato
Research Assistant working on the SOMA Project across ULIS and the Neuromechanics and Rehabilitation Technology group. Interested in using Ultrasound as a peripheral interface for forearm prosthetics control.
Previous:
  • BSc in Physics with specialization in Medical Physics at State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil (2015-2020)

Clotilde Vié
PhD researcher working on imaging of gut the structure and microcirculation in response to nutrition intakes and therapeutics.

Previous:
  • MSc of Biomedical Engineering at Imperial College (2020 – 2021).
  • Master of Engineering with major in Physics and Optics at the Institute of Optics Graduate School – France (2015 – 2021).

Biao Huang
PhD student working on the application of super resolution ultrasound to imaging the cardiac vessels.
Previous:
  • MSc in Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University, working on the image processing of the cardiac images (2018-2021).
  • BEng in Biomedical Engineering, Central South University (2014-2018).

Qingyuan Tan
PhD researcher working on three-dimensional ultrasound super-resolution imaging.
Previous:
  • M. Eng. in Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing at Wuhan University, working on ultrafast ultrasound imaging (2017-2020).
  • B. Sc. in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at Wuhan University (2013-2017).

Jingwen Zhu
PhD researcher working on super-resolution ultrasound brain imaging.
Previous:
  • M. Eng. in Biomedical Engineering at National University of Singapore (2020 – 2022).
  • B. Sc. in Biomedical Engineering at Zhejiang University (2016 – 2020).
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Clara Rodrigo Gonzalez
MRes/PhD researcher working towards improving current super-resolution techniques for cardiac imaging in 3D. She has a particular interest in applications of deep learning techniques to imaging.
Previous:
  • MEng in Biomedical Engineering at Imperial College London. She did her Masters project in the application of cycleGANs for image-to-image translation within this lab.
  • UROP in the development of algorithms for simultaneous tracking of mayflies in 3D.
  • Internship as a ML consultant at dunnhumby.

 

MRes Students

Weiliang Zhao
MRes researcher working on local speed of sound estimation
Previous:
  • B. Sc. in Biomedical Engineering at Beihang University (2019 – 2023), working on optical imaging and deep learning.