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Lu Jiang, PhD

Lu Jiang, PhD

Education

Education

  • Ph.D. in Bioengineering, University of California San Francisco & University of California, Berkeley (2026)
  • M.S. in Physics and Biology in Medicine, University of California Los Angeles (2023)
  • B.S. in Applied Physics, Shandong University (2020)

Awards & Honors 

  • Science Council Session Award, AAPM Annual Meeting (2023)
  • Chancellor’s Scholarship (Highest honor at Shandong University, Rank: 1/189) (2020)
  • National Scholarship (2019)
  • National Scholarship (2018)

Selected Publications, Abstracts & Posters

Publications

  • Jiang, L., Lyu, Q., Xu, Q., Capaldi, D., Sheng, K. “Novel 4π noncoplanar small animal irradiation with rectangular aperture based optimization.” Physics in Medicine & Biology, 70(20), 205008, 2025.

  • Jiang, L., Xu, D., Sheng, K. “Anatomy-constrained synthesis for spleen segmentation improvement in unpaired mouse micro-CT scans with 3D CycleGAN.” Biomedical Physics & Engineering Express, 10(5), 055019, 2024.

  • Jiang, L., Xu, D., Xu, Q., Chatziioannou, A., Iwamoto, K. S., Hui, S., Sheng, K. “Robust Automated Mouse Micro-CT Segmentation Using Swin UNEt TRansformers.” Bioengineering, 11(12), 1255, 2024.

  • Jiang, L., Ramesh, P., Neph, R., Sheng, K. “Technical Note: Multi-MATE, a high-throughput platform for automated image-guided small-animal irradiation.” Medical Physics, 2023.

  • Jiang, L., Lyu, Q., Abdelhamid, A. M., Hui, S., & Sheng, K. “An efficient rectangular optimization method for sparse orthogonal collimator based small animal irradiation.” Physics in Medicine & Biology, 67(19), 195010, 2022.

Abstracts

  • “Integrating Deep Learning with RayStation Dose Mimicking for Automated Treatment Planning” 13th RaySearch Americas User Meeting, Miami, FL, March 2026.

  • “Rectangular Aperture-Based Beam Orientation Optimization for 4π Non-Coplanar Small Animal IMRT Delivery.” AAPM Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, July 2025.

  • “Anatomy-Constrained Synthesis for Spleen Segmentation Improvement in Unpaired Mouse CBCT Scans with 3D Cycle-Gan.” AAPM Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, July 2024.

  • “A Novel Irradiation Platform Design for Multiple Mouse Automated Treatment Environment.” Science Council Session of AAPM Annual Meeting, Houston, TX, July 2023.

  • “A Sparse Orthogonal Collimators System for Experiments on Small-animal Scale.” ASTRO Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, October 2022.

  • “Boundary-Constrained Neural Network for Mouse Organ Segmentation.” AAPM Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, July 2022.

Posters

  • “UKAN Architecture for Voxel-Level Dose Prediction in Radiotherapy.” AAPM Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, July 2025.
  • “Novel Dose-Informed Metrics for the Development and Evaluation of Automatic Segmentation in Radiotherapy.” AAPM Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, July 2024.
  • “Multi-MATE: High-throughput Automated Small Animal Radiation Platform.” AAPM Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, July 2022.

Redefining Possible