Kang Yan, Ph.D. candidate
Rapid MRI Research Group @ MeyerLab
wrr6ps@virginia.edu
Charlottesville, VA
Biography
I am currently a Ph.D. student, studying Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Virginia, under the supervision of Prof. Craig H. Meyer . Before enrolling in the Ph.D. program at UVA, I worked in Prof. Yiping P. Du's lab at Shanghai Jiao Tong University as a master student. Outside of academia, I enjoy traveling, reading, watching movies, hiking, and swimming. #GoHoos!
News
- [05/2026] Congratulations to Craig on being awarded the 2026 ISMRM Gold Medal!
- [11/2025] Initiated into the Iota Beta Chapter of Alpha Alpha Alpha Honor Society
- [05/2025] Co-authored paper titled A retraced spiral strategy with semi-automatic deblurring for volumetric thermometry in Magnetic Resonance in Medicine is published online.
- [02/2025] Our abstract #0637 has been selected for oral presentation at ISMRM2025.
- [01/2025] Invited Speaker, 2025 MICCAI-SCMR workshop. [slides]
Research Interests
I am interested in MRI acquisition and reconstruction, in particular:
- Spiral trajectory
- Low rank & Deep Learning
- Diffusion imaging, and
- MRgFUS
"Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get"
-- Forrest Gump