I received my Ph.D. from Sorbonne Université, Paris, France, in 2018, under the direction of Quentin Grimal and Pascal Laugier (Member, European Academy of Sciences).
From 2018 to 2020, I was in Ferrara Lab at Stanford University for postdoctoral research training under the direction of Katherine W. Ferrara (Member, National Academy of Engineering).
I am currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Information Science and Technology at ShanghaiTech University.
Our work is supported by ‘National Natural Science Foundation of China’, ‘Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai’, ‘Shanghai High-Level Overseas Talent Program’, ‘Shanghai Sailing Program’ and a grant from ‘Key Laboratory of Biomedical Imaging Science and System, Chinese Academy of Sciences’.
I received the second place award for the talk presented at the Youth Forum of 2023 WIFUMB, the best talk award at the IBDW (2017) and the traveling award of IUS (2017).
I served as a Technical Program Committee Member of IEEE IUS, a co-chair for the sessions at IEEE IUS 2023, 2024, 2025 and ESUCB 2017, and as a reviewer for IEEE TMI、IEEE TUFFC、IEEE TBME、Ultrasonics、Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology、Acta Biomaterilia、Nature Communications、Scientific Reports、Measurement、声学学报、Ultrasonic Imaging、Nanoscale, etc.
✡️ Research Interests
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Ultrasound Imaging: image reconstruction methods, multi-parametric and multimodal imaging, monitoring methods for ultrasound therapy;
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Deep Learning for Medical Imaging: deep learning techniques applied to ultrasound imaging;
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Medical Instrumentation:: development of instruments for medical diagnosis and therapy.
🔊 Position Openings
- Postgraduate Students: We recruit 2~3 postgraduate students for each academic year. The candidate is expected to be self-motivated in one of the following areas: Signal Processing, Image Processing, Medical Imaging, Wave Physics, Artificial Intelligence, Parallel Computation, Circuit Design, Instrumentation, etc. A solid mathematical background and sufficient programming skills are required. If you are interested in this opening, please email me your CV.
- Undergraduates/Visting Students: We warmly welcome students (from ShanghaiTech or other Universities) majored in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Information and Communication Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Physics and Acoustics, Information and Communication Engineering, and other related disciplines to join our group.
🔥 News
- 2025.11: Congratulations, Yifei Li’s work entitled “Real-time Heterogeneous Helical Wave Spectrum Method for Trans-abdominal Passive Acoustic Mapping” has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control. Details can be found following the link.
- 2025.09: Good job! Shilong Cui, Yihang Lian and Pengcheng Wan gave their first oral presentation at 2025 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium in Utrecht, Netherland!
- 2025.07: Congratulations, Pengcheng Wan has been selected to receive a travel grant of $700.00 USD for IEEE IUS 2025!
- 2025.07: Congratulations, Yi Zeng’s work entitled “High-Quality Passive Acoustic Mapping with the Cross-Correlated Angular Spectrum Method” has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control. Details can be found following the link.
- 2025.06: Congratulations, Hui Zhu’s work entitled “Real-time 3D Passive Acoustic Mapping for Row-column Arrays with the Cross-spectrum method” has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control. Details can be found following the link.
- 2025.06: Four abstracts accepted by 2025 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS). Congratulations to Shilong Cui, Pengcheng Wan, Yihang Lian, and Hui Zhu!
- 2025.05: Yihang Lian successfully defended his application of MS to PhD conversion.
- 2025.05: Congratulations, Gaofei Jin and Yi Zeng’s work entitled “Single Probe Enabled Refraction-Corrected Transcranial Passive Acoustic Mapping Through Macaque Calvaria” has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control. Details can be found following the link
- 2025.05: Congratulations, Yi Zeng’s work entitled “Switchable deep beamformer for high-quality and real-time passive acoustic mapping” has been accepted by Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology. Details can be found following the link
- 2025.03: Congratulations, Shilong Cui’s work entitled “BentRay-NeRF: Bent ray neural radiance fields for robust speed-of-sound imaging in ultrasound computed tomography” has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control. Details can be found following the link
- 2025.02: Congratulations, Yiming Huang’s work entitled “Geometric a priori informed bent-ray tracing for accelerated sound speed imaging in ultrasound computed tomography” has been accepted by Ultrasonics. Details can be found following the link
- 2024.12: Congratulations, Yihang Lian’s work entitled “Deep Beamforming for Real-time 3D Passive Acoustic Mapping with Row-Column-Addressed Arrays” has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control. Details can be found following the link
- 2024.11: Congratulations to Bowei Yao and Yifei Li! They have successfully defended their Master degree thesis.
- 2024.11: Congratulations! Hui Zhu was awarded the ‘National scholarship for doctoral students (博士研究生国家奖学金)’.
- 2024.10: Our grant proposal received the support from ‘Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai’.
- 2024.08: Our grant proposal received the support from ‘National Natural Science Foundation of China’.
- 2024.06: Three abstracts accepted by 2024 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS). Congratulations to Bowei Yao, Yi Zeng and Hui Zhu!
- 2024.05: Hui Zhu has published a paper entitled “Passive Acoustic Mapping for Convex Arrays With the Helical Wave Spectrum Method” in IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging ( Volume: 43, Issue: 5, May 2024). Details can be found following the link
- 2024.05: Congratulations to Yi Zeng and Hui Zhu! Their works on passive acoustic mapping have been selected to compete for the Student Award and Student Poster Award by 2024 International Symposium on Therapeutic Ultrasound (ISTU), and they both received the Student Registration Award for ISTU 2024.
- 2024.05: 祝贺崔世龙、连奕航同学在”AI4S Cup-超声CT成像中的声场预测“比赛中获奖。崔世龙获得声场预测“三等奖”和“最佳反演效果奖”，连奕航获得声场预测“三等奖”。
- 2024.05: Yi Zeng successfully defended his application of MS to PhD conversion.
- 2023.11: 课题组获批2023年度医学成像科学与技术系统中国科学院(全国)重点实验室一般开放基金项目1项。
- 2023.10: 我的报告在西湖国际超声医学论坛暨国际超声造影会议获得青年论坛报告二等奖。
- 2023.05: I and collaborators published a paper entitled “Fast volumetric ultrasound facilitates high-resolution 3D mapping of tissue compartments” in Science Advances ( Volume: 9, Issue: 22, May 2023). Details can be found following the link
- 2023.05: Congratulations to Jin Gaofei, Xu Xuan, and Meng Mancheng! They have successfully defended their Master degree thesis. They are now embarking on new journeys in life. Jin Gaofei is heading to the U.S. for further studie (fully funded Ph.D. at the University of Rochester) and Xu Xuan and Meng Mancheng will joint the industry (Huawei, Unite Imaging)!
- 2023.05: SUSIT lab had eight conference abstracts accepted by the prestigious IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium this year. Congratulations to the eight students in our group (including one undergraduate from ShanghaiTech University)!
- 2023.05: Shilong Cui successfully defended his application of MS to PhD conversion.
- 2023.03: Gaofei Jin has published a paper entitled “A Signal-Domain Object Segmentation Method for Ultrasound and Photoacoustic Computed Tomography” in IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control (Volume: 70, Issue: 3, March 2023). Details can be found following the link
- 2022.09: SUSIT lab welcomes 2 new members (Undergrads), Yiming Huang, Chenguang Wang.
- 2022.06: The prestigious 2022 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS) has accepted two abstracts submitted by Yi Zheng and Hui Zhu, respectively. They will present their works at the conference to be held in Venice, Italy, on October 10-13, 2022. Congratulations!
- 2022.05: Hui Zhu successfully defended her application of MS to PhD conversion.
- 2022.05: Xiran Cai has published two chapters in the book “Bone Quantitative Ultrasound New Horizons”, reporting the latest development of resonant ultrasound spectroscopy for high damping solids and its application in measuring the anisotropic stiffness of hard tissue. Details can be found following the link
- 2021.12: Xiran Cai received the support of “Shanghai Overseas Talent Program”.
- 2021.09: SUSIT lab welcomes 3 new members (Master students), Yifei Li, Shilong Cui, Bowei Yao.
- 2021.04: Xiran Cai received a grant from “Shanghai Sailing Program”.
- 2020.09: SUSIT lab is officially open and welcomes 2 members (Master students), Gaofei Jin, Hui Zhu.
📝 Selected Publications
Real-time Heterogeneous Helical Wave Spectrum Method for Trans-abdominal Passive Acoustic Mapping, IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control 2025
Yifei Li, Hui Zhu, Yi Zeng, Shixiao W. Jiang*, Xiran Cai*
High-Quality Passive Acoustic Mapping with the Cross-Correlated Angular Spectrum Method, IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control 2025
Yi Zeng, Shixiao W. Jiang, Hui Zhu, Jinwei Li, Jianfeng Li, Fei Li, Shukuan Lu*, Xiran Cai*
Real-time 3D Passive Acoustic Mapping for Row-column Arrays with the Cross-spectrum Method, IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control 2025
Hui Zhu, Yi Zeng, Jianfeng Li, Kailiang Xu*, Xiran Cai*
Single Probe Enabled Refraction-Corrected Transcranial Passive Acoustic Mapping Through Macaque Calvaria, IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control 2025
Gaofei Jin#, Yi Zeng#, Hui Zhu, Guotao Quan, Xiran Cai*, Dean Ta*
Switchable deep beamformer for high-quality and real-time passive acoustic mapping, Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology 2025
Yi Zeng, Jinwei Li, Hui Zhu, Shukuan Lu*, Jianfeng Li*, Xiran Cai*
BentRay-NeRF: Bent ray neural radiance fields for robust speed-of-sound imaging in ultrasound computed tomography, IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control 2025
Shilong Cui, Qing Wu, Yiming Huang, Haizhao Dai, Yuyao Zhang, Jingyi Yu, Xiran Cai*
Geometric a priori informed bent-ray tracing for accelerated sound speed imaging in ultrasound computed tomography, Ultrasonics 2025
Yiming Huang, Yi Zeng, Shilong Cui, Chengcheng Liu*, Xiran Cai*
Deep Beamforming for Real-time 3D Passive Acoustic Mapping with Row-Column-Addressed Arrays, IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control 2024
Yihang Lian; Yi Zeng; Suian Zhou; Hui Zhu; Fei Li*; Xiran Cai*
Passive Acoustic Mapping for Convex Arrays With the Helical Wave Spectrum Method, IEEE Trans. Med. Imag. 2024
Hui Zhu; Yi Zeng; Xiran Cai*
Fast volumetric ultrasound facilitates high-resolution 3D mapping of tissue compartments, Sci. Adv. 2023
Eun-Yeong Park#, Xiran Cai#, Josquin Foiret, Hanna Bendjador, Dongwoon Hyun, Brett Z Fite, Robert Wodnicki, Jeremy J Dahl, Robert D Boutin, Katherine W Ferrara
A signal-domain object segmentation method for ultrasound and photoacoustic computed tomography, IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control 2023
Gaofei Jin, Hui Zhu, Daohuai Jiang, Jinwei Li, Lili Su, Jianfeng Li, Fei Gao, Xiran Cai*
📖 Education
- 2018, Ph.D., Sorbonne Université.
- Supervisor: Prof. Quentin Grimal, Prof. Pascal Laugier (Member, European Academy of Sciences)
💻 Work Experience
- Assistant Professor (2020 -now): School of Information Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University.
- Postdoctoral Fellow (2018-2020):
- Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, Stanford University
- Supervisor: Prof. Katherine W. Ferrara (Member, National Academy of Engineering)
🎖️ Awards
- 2025 Student Travel Award (awarded to Pengcheng Wan), IEEE IUS.
- 2025 上海科技大学优秀毕业生 (awarded to 黄一鸣).
- 2024 博士研究生国家奖学金 (awarded to 朱卉).
- 2024 Student Award Finalist (awarded to Hui Zhu), ISTU.
- 2024 Student Poster Award Finalist (awarded to Yi Zeng), ISTU.
- 2024 最佳反演效果奖 (awarded to 崔世龙) , AI4S Cup-超声CT成像中的声场预测.
- 2024 三等奖 (awarded to 崔世龙), AI4S Cup-超声CT成像中的声场预测.
- 2024 三等奖 (awarded to 连奕航), AI4S Cup-超声CT成像中的声场预测.
- 2023 Student Travel Award (awarded to Hui Zhu), IEEE IUS.
- 2023 青年论坛报告二等奖, 西湖国际超声医学论坛暨国际超声造影会议.
- 2017 Student Travel Award, IEEE IUS.
- 2017 Best Talk Award, IBDW.
💬 Talks
- 2025.07 Multi-dimensional Realtime Passive Cavitation Imaging, 2025 International Symposium on Nonlinear Acoustics, Invited Talk.
- 2025.04 聚焦超声空化治疗的可视化监测方法研究，第91届中国国际医疗器械博览会超声论坛.
- 2024.11 多维度高分辨率被动声成像方法, 第五届“气泡动力学青年研讨会”，邀请报告.
- 2024.03 聚焦超声治疗及图像引导技术简介, 复旦大学，邀请报告.
- 2023.07 高分辨率被动空化成像方法研究, 2022-2023全国声学大会, 邀请报告.
- 2023.11 声空化活动的快速定位成像方法研究, 重庆医科大学，邀请报告.
- 2023.10 超声空化活动实时大视场成像方法, 西湖国际超声医学论坛暨国际超声造影会议.
🕴️ Activities
- Session Chair
- IEEE IUS 2023-2025, ESUCB 2017.
- Reviewer
- Nature Communications
- IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
- IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control
- Ultrasonics
- Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology
- Acta Biomaterilia
- Scientific Reports
- Measurement
- 声学学报
- Ultrasonic Imaging
- Nanoscale
🧑🏫 Teaching
- Course EE150 - Signal and Systems, ShanghaiTech University, 2022 Autumn, 2023 Autumn, 2024 Autumn, 2025 Autumn.
- Course CS270 - Digital Image Processing, ShanghaiTech University, 2021 Spring, 2022 Spring, 2023 Spring, 2024 Spring, 2025 Spring.
- Course EE290Y - Physics in Medical Imaging, ShanghaiTech University, 2021 Summer.
- Course EE290X - Electric circuit (Basics), ShanghaiTech University, 2020 Autumn, 2021 Autumn.
🧑🎓 Group
- Ph.D. Students
- Zhu Hui (2020 Fall - present): B.E. at University of Shanghai for Science and Technology.
- Shilong Cui (2021 Fall - present): B.E. at Taiyuan Institute of Technology.
- Yi Zeng (2022 Fall - present): B.E. at Anhui University.
- Yihang Lian (2023 Fall - present): B.E. at Shanghaitech University.
- Master Students
- Xiaofan Gu (2023 Fall - present): B.E. at Shanghaitech University.
- Chenyang Li (2023 Fall - present): B.E. at Shangdong University.
- Shaoqi Huang (2024 Fall - present): B.E. at Jilin University.
- Zihua Liang (2024 Fall - present): B.E. at University of Shanghai for Science and Technology.
- Letian Wang (2024 Fall - present): B.E. at Shanghai University of Electric Power.
- Pengcheng Wan (2024 Fall - present): B.E. at Southwest University of Science and Technology.
- Jie Liu (2025 Fall - present): B.E. at Xidian University.
- Li Cui (2025 Fall - present): B.E. at Hangzhou Dianzi University.
- Zhengyang Li (2025 Fall - present): B.E. at Wuhan University of Technology.
- Alumni
- Yiming Huang (2022 - 2025), Currently an Engineer at Chinese Academy of Sciences.
- Teng Liang (2022 - 2025), Currently an Engineer at China Telecom.
- Yichen Yang (2022 - 2025), Currently an Engineer at BYD.
- Suian Zhou (2023 - 2025), Currently a Graduate Student at Chinese Academy of Sciences.
- Bowei Yao (2021 - 2024), Currently an Engineer at Tencent.
- Yifei Li (2021 - 2024), Currently an Engineer at Sifary Medical Technology Co.,Ltd.
- Gaofei Jin (2020 - 2023), Currently a PhD candidate at the University of Rochester, United States.
- Xuan Xu (2020 - 2023), Currently an Engineer at Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Mancheng Meng (2020 - 2023), Currently an Engineer at United Imaging Healthcare Co.,Ltd.
🛠️ Equipments
实验室拥有一流的医学超声研究设备，包括1024通道容积超声研究平台、256通道高强度聚焦超声研究平台、各类医学成像探头（面阵、半球阵、环阵、线阵、凸阵、相控阵），三维声场扫描平台等，部分设备展示如下。
