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Qihui won first place in 2022 AAPM Young Investigator Competition

Mon, 18 Jul 2022 06:42:02 GMT

Ten highest scored AAPM abstracts were selected from ~400 abstracts for the annual competition. Qihui's presentation on pair production tomography won first place in the most important annual competition for trainees. Congratulations to Qihui.

Pav presented at the best of therapy physics symposium in 2022 AAPM

Mon, 18 Jul 2022 06:40:49 GMT

Pav's presentation on simultaneous dose and dose rate optimization for proton FLASH radiotherapy was one of the best therapy physics abstracts selected for the special symposium.

Qihui and Pav won the first place in Norm Baily!

Thu, 26 May 2022 20:06:32 GMT

On top of winning first place Norm Baily in both graduate student and postgraduate categories, Pav won the SLAM competition and will participate in the national competition in July 2022 at the AAPM annual conference. Congratulations.

Qihui Lyu won the AAPM seed grant

Mon, 01 Nov 2021 17:30:22 GMT

Second year in a row, one of our team members won the AAPM seed grant.

Qihui Lyu won the UCLA JCCC fellowship award

Mon, 01 Nov 2021 17:28:33 GMT

The award will support her research in automated treatment planning. Great work for winning the highly competitive award.

Elizabeth passed Ph.D. thesis defense

Mon, 01 Nov 2021 17:26:11 GMT

Elizabeth successfully defended her thesis on 10/26/2021. Her thesis title is "A Neural Network Approach To Deformable Image Registration". She will be joining Cedars Sinai as Assistant Professor. Congratulations Dr. McKenzie!

Qihui passed her thesis defense

Mon, 10 May 2021 16:55:08 GMT

Qihui successfully defended her thesis entitled "single and dual-energy CT guided radiotherapy". Congratulations Dr. Lyu!

Qihui Lyu was awarded 2020 UCLA graduate year fellowship

Tue, 16 Jun 2020 04:44:54 GMT

Congratulations!

Ryan Neph graduated with Ph.D.

Tue, 09 Jun 2020 19:22:09 GMT

Ryan's thesis title is "Accelerated Radiation Dose Calculation with High Performance Computing and Machine Learning for Large-scale Radiotherapy Treatment Planning". Ryan will join Google in July. Congratulations Dr. Neph.

Wenbo Gu defended her thesis

Tue, 09 Jun 2020 19:19:40 GMT

Her thesis title is "Integrated Beam Orientation Optimization For Robust Intensity-Modulated Proton Therapy". Wenbo Gu will join the University of Pennsylvania, where one of the best proton centers is located, as a 2020 physics resident. Congratulations, Wenbo!

Elizabeth McKenzie advances to Ph.D. Candidacy

Tue, 09 Jun 2020 19:17:16 GMT

Elizabeth's proposal on deep learning-based multi-modal deformable registration has passed the committee examination. Congratulations Elizabeth!

Group photo

Thu, 13 Jun 2019 00:11:21 GMT

Wenbo was attending a meeting in Manchester so we will have to photoshop her in:)

Ryan Neph Won the 2019 Norm Baily Award

Tue, 04 Jun 2019 21:09:50 GMT

Congratulations to Ryan!

Kaley Woods won the UCLA PBM Greenfield Award

Wed, 17 Oct 2018 00:40:55 GMT

Kaley won the 2018 Dr. Moses A. Greenfield . Congratulations.

Victoria and Kaley Won Awards

Tue, 22 May 2018 16:30:14 GMT

Kaley and Victoria won the granduate student division and resident awards, respectively. They will each give a 10 minutes talk on 5/8 in UC Irvine. Congratulations!

Graduate Student division:

First Place: Kaley Woods

Second Place: Dylan O'Connell

Resident/Postdoc division:

First Place: Victoria Yu

Second Place: Wenbo Wei

Below are the pictures taken from the event. In addition to the Norm Baily award, Kaley won the SLAM competition and will represent the Southern California Chapter to compete in the 2018 AAPM Annual Meeting SLAM.