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Education
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-Doctor of Philosophy (2010-15), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Auburn   University, Auburn, AL, USA (Advisor/mentor: Stanley J. Reeves & Donald B. Twieg)    
-Master of Applied Mathematics (2011-14), Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA.
-Bachelor of Engineering (2005-09), Department of Electrical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan, China
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Employment
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-Tenure-Track Associate Professor (2019-), School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
-Post-Doctoral Associate (2015-19), Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA (Advisor: Dana C. Peters)
-Teaching Assistant (2014-15), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA
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Awards and Honors
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-W. S. Moore Young Investigator Award Recipient (2018), the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM, https://www.ismrm.org/18m/2018-yia-winners/;  https://medicine.yale.edu/mrrc/home/news/)
-Early Career Award Finalist (2018), the Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR)
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Publications
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  1. Zhang Z#, Chen X#, Wan Q#, Wang H, Qi N, You Z, Yuan J, Hu L, Sun H, Wang Z, Hu C*, Zhao J*. A two-stage cardiac PET and late gadolinium enhancement MRI co-registration method for improved assessment of non-ischemic cardiomyopathies using integrated PET/MR. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2022 Jun;49(7):2199-2208. 

  2. Gonzales RA, Seemann F, Lamy J, Mojibian H, Atar D, Erlinge D, Steding-Ehrenborg K, Arheden H, Hu C, Onofrey JA, Peters DC, and Heiberg E. "MVnet: automated time-resolved tracking of the mitral valve plane in MRI long-axis cine images with residual neural networks - a multi-center, multi-vendor study". Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2021; 23: 137.

  3. Jiang P, Feng Z, Sheng L, Hu C, Ma X, Zhang S, Wu L, Xiao X, Wang Q, Guo C, Qiu D, Fang J, Xu J, Gershwin M.E. Jiang M, Ma X, Pu J. "Morphological, Functional, and Tissue Characterization of Silent Myocardial Involvement in Patients With Primary Biliary Cholangitis." Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2021

  4. Gao J, Liu Q, Zhou C, Zhang W, Wan Q, Hu C, Gu Z, Liang D, Liu X, Yang Y, Zheng H, Hu Z, Zhang N. An improved patch-based regularization method for PET image reconstruction. Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery 2021 Feb;11(2):556-570.

  5. Hu C*, Huber S, Nguyen V, Baldassarre L, Mojibian H, Peters D. Fat-saturated dark-blood cardiac T2 mapping in a single breath-hold. Magnetic Resonance Imaging 2021;81:24-32.

  6. Robb JS, Hu C*, Peters DC. Interleaved, undersampled radial multiple-acquisition steady-state free precession for improved left atrial cine imaging. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 2020;83(5):1721-1729.

  7. Hu C, Tokoglu F, Scheinost D, Qiu M, Shen X, Peters DC, Galiana G, Constable RT*. “Dynamic‐flip‐angle ECG‐gating with nuisance signal regression improves resting‐state BOLD functional connectivity mapping by reducing cardiogenic noise”. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 2019 April 24. Doi: 10.1002/mrm.27775

  8. Hu C* and Peters DC, “SUPER: a blockwise curve-fitting method for accelerating MR parametric mapping with fast reconstruction”, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 2019 Jan 17. Doi: 10.1002/mrm/27662

  9. Hu C*, Huber S, Santacana-Laffitte G, Latif SR, Mojibian HR, Baldassarre LA, Peters DC. “REPAIRit: improving myocardial nulling and reducing ghosting artifacts in 3D navigator-gated late gadolinium enhancement under arrhythmia”. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 2018 Sept 25. doi:10.1002/jmri.26284

  10. Seemann F*, Baldassarre LA, Llanos F, Gonzales R, Grunseich K, Hu C, Sugeng L, Meadows J, Heiberg E, Peters DC. “Assessment of diastolic dysfunction and atrial remodeling by mri—validation and correlation with echocardiography and filling pressure”. Physiology Reports. 2018 Sept 05. doi: 10.14814/phy2.13828

  11. Hu C*, Huber S, Latif SR, Santacana-Laffitte G, Mojibian HR, Baldassarre LA, and Peters DC. “Reverse double inversion-recovery: improving motion robustness of cardiac T2-weighted dark-blood turbo spin-echo sequence”, Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 2017 Nov 7. doi: 10.1002/jmri.25886

  12. Hu C*, Sinusas AJ, Huber S, Thorn S, Stacy MR, Mojibian H, and Peters DC. “T1-refBlochi: High resolution 3D cardiac post-contrast T1 mapping based on a single 3D late gadolinium enhancement, Bloch equations, and a reference T1”. Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance. 2017;19(1):63. doi: 10.1186/s12968-017-0375-1.

  13. Hu C*, Reeves SJ, Peters DC, and Twieg D. “An efficient reconstruction algorithm based on the alternating direction method of multipliers for joint estimation of R2* and off-resonance in fMRI”. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. 2017;36(6):1326-1336. doi: 10.1109/TMI.2017.2667698.

  14. Hu C* and Reeves SJ. “Trust region methods for estimation of complex exponential decay models in MRI with a single-shot trajectory”. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. 2015;24(11):3694-706. doi: 10.1109/TIP.2015.2442917

  15. Hu C* and Reeves SJ. “An efficient auxiliary variable method for quantification of spin density, R2* decay, and field inhomogeneity maps in magnetic resonance imaging”, IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2015), Brooklyn, NY, USA

  16. Hu C* and Reeves SJ. "A regularized trust region method for joint reconstruction of spin magnitude, T2* decay, and off-resonance field map", Oral Presentation, IEEE International Conference on Imaging Processing (ICIP 2014), Paris, France

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