Wenxiao Li
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Education
Johns Hopkins University Expected May 2014
Master of Science and Engineering in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Beijing Institute of Technology 2012
Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Information Engineering
Coursework
Medical Signals and Systems; Wavelet and Filter Banks; Image Processing; Compressed Sensing and Sparse Recovery;
Digital Signal Processing; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Speech and Auditory Signal Processing
Research Experience
Research Assistant, Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University 03/2014 present
Working on the amide proton transfer (APT) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to distinguish tumor recurrence
after brain tumor therapy.
Research Assistant, Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University 11/2012 present
Working on a project to generate a set of realistic pediatric patient models and their projection data in order to
study the relationship between radiation dose and image quality for various body and kidney sizes.
Biomedical Imaging Team, Beijing Institute of Technology Biomedical Images Lab 06/2011 09/2011
SPECT image reconstruction focused on the evaluation of the OSEM-based minimization of the total variation
(OSEM-TV), including the phantom simulation and human image data.
Intern, State key Research Center for Tumor Diagnosis and Therapeutical Physics 07/2010 03/2012
Development and evaluation of the Reference Tissue-based Kinetic Modeling for Noninvasive Qualification of
Dynamic Positron Emission Tomography and Dynamic Contrast-enhanced MRI (DCE MRI).
Publications
Coauthor of the paper (in press): A NURBS-based population of pediatric phantoms to investigate the tradeoff
between radiation dose and image quality in diagnostic nuclear medicine
Skills
Programming: Matlab, Python, Bash, C/C++, IDL, Assembly, SPSS, VHDL, Visual Basic
Software: Pspice/EDA, Quartus, ISE, System View
Languages: Fluent in English and Chinese, Intro Level Japanese
Honors
Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) Student Scholarship 2008 2011
Honorable Mention in Mathematical Contest in Modeling, held by the Northwestern University, U.S.A. 2011
BIT Outstanding Award in Basic Curriculum: College Physics II (Top 2%) 2010
BIT Outstanding Award in Basic Curriculum: College English I (Top 2%) 2009
BIT Outstanding Award in College English Test IV (Top 2%) 2009
1st prize in National English Contest for College Student (NECCS) 2009
Outstanding Award in CCTV National English Speech Contest 2009
3rd place in National Physics Contest of College Student 2009
3rd place in Beijing High School Student Biology Contest 2008
Award for Diligence and Intelligence, granted to top 1% student in overall academic performance 2008