Biographical Details

Guang-Zhong Yang received his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Imperial College, London. He served as a senior and then the principal scientist of the Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (CMR) Unit, Royal Brompton Hospital before rejoining Imperial College in April 1999. He is now the head of the Visual Information Processing (VIP) research group at the Department of Computing, and his current research focuses on Computational Vision, Image Processing, Perceptual Intelligence, Visual Simulation, and Biomedical Imaging Systems. Dr Yang received the I. I. Rabi Award in 1996 from the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) for his work on Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Flow Imaging, and he currently serves as the Chairman of IEEE UK/RI Engineering in Medicine and Biology.