Zhen Tian
Associate Professor
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolZhen Tian is an Associate Professor and biomedical engineer with 15 years of experience developing GPU-accelerated solutions for radiotherapy and medical imaging. He holds a Ph.D. from Tsinghua and has led creation and commercialization of ultra-fast Monte Carlo dose engines, automatic beam commissioning tools, and multi-GPU VMAT treatment planning systems. His work spans low-dose and 4D CT reconstruction, beam source modeling, and production-grade parallel computing in C/C++ with CUDA/OpenCL, reflecting a rare combination of deep physics, clinical awareness, and high-performance software engineering. Based in Chicago, he has transitioned from postdoctoral and junior faculty roles to leading translational research at top academic medical centers, and two of his Monte Carlo engines are already licensed to industry. Colleagues describe him as "obsessed with automation," a trait evident in his focus on reproducible, high-throughput clinical workflows.
15 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Biomedical/Medical Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Biomedical/Medical Engineering at Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityPh.D, Biomedical/Medical Engineering, Imaging, Ph.D, Biomedical/Medical Engineering, Imaging at Tsinghua University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (200)
libgit210
significant-digits10
http-client10
browser10
nodejs10
gitbook10
bigdecimal10
container-image10
scanning10
xmlhttprequest10
ajax10
ean1310
lint10
loader10
qr-code10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
dawncold/y.youth2009.org
Jan 2015 - Sep 2018
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 issue in 3 years 9 months
dawncold/wz-s-k
Aug 2019 - Mar 2020
Contributions:84 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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