Alex Peng Hu

Dr. Peng Hu is a Professor with Tenure and Vice Dean of the School of Biomedical Engineering at ShanghaiTech University, and the Executive President of United Imaging Research. Dr. Hu received his B.S. and M.S. degree from Tsinghua University and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. He finished his post-doctoral training at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Hu was Tenured Full Professor in the Departments of Radiology and Bioengineering at UCLA. He is interested in MRI for cardiovascular disease, MRI-guided cancer radiotherapy, and fast/ real-time MRI. Dr. Peng Hu is a world-renowned scholar in the field of cardiac magnetic resonance. A number of techniques invented by his laboratory have been widely adopted and have become gold standard in clinical practices around the world. Dr. Hu has published more than 130 papers in top journals of the medical imaging field and more than 200 conference abstracts in top conferences.