Principal Investigator
Fuyixue Wang, PhD
Dr. Wang is an Assistant Professor of Radiology at the Athinoula A. Martinos Center, MGH/HMS. She obtained her Ph.D. from MIT in Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology. Dr. Wang’s research focuses on developing MRI technologies to improve sensitivity, specificity, and efficiency in studying human brain function, structure, and physiology.
Zijing Dong, PhD
Dr. Dong is an Assistant Professor of Radiology at the Athinoula A. Martinos Center. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT. His research focuses on developing MRI acquisition and reconstruction techniques to improve spatiotemporal resolution, data quality, and information content for structural and functional imaging.
Members
Jian Wu, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow
Jian received his PhD from Xiamen University and has joined the lab since early 2024. His research focuses on developing advanced pulse sequences and image reconstruction methods, aiming to enable next-generation MRI acquisitions with improved image quality, efficiency, and real-time computational capability across a range of MRI contrasts.
Daniel Haenelt, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow
Daniel received his PhD from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany, and has joined the lab since 2025. His research focuses on applying novel MRI acquisition techniques and developing deep learning methods to enhance sensitivity, specificity, and spatiotemporal resolution in mapping human brain function.
James Zhang, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow
James received his PhD in Bioengineering from the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign (UIUC) and has joined the lab since early 2025. His current research focuses on developing diffusion MRI acquisition at ultra-high spatial resolution and high b-values to improve tractography and microstructural measurements for both neuroscientific and clinical applications.
Zhangxuan Hu, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow
Zhangxuan received his PhD degree from Tsinghua University. His research in the lab focuses on developing novel pulse sequences, reconstruction, and processing methods for efficient water-fat separation and distortion-free multi-contrast quantitative imaging, targeting body imaging applications.
Kaibo Tang, Ph.D. student
Kaibo Tang is a PhD student in the lab from Boston University. He first joined as a visiting student from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2023. His research focuses on developing deep learning–based reconstruction and accelerated acquisition methods to enable fast and robust mesoscale diffusion MRI in vivo.
Felix Zahnert, M.D. Visiting Scholar
Felix is a visiting scholar in the lab from the University Hospital of Giessen and Marburg (UKGM), Marburg, Germany. His research interest lies in applying advanced diffusion MRI acquisition such as Romer-EPTI to investigate microstructural changes in epilepsy patients.
Kyle Droppa, Research Assistant
Kyle is a research assistant/coordinator with extensive experience in coordinating human MRI studies. He supports participant enrollment, assists in MRI scanner operations for human scanning, and manages human subjects protocols.
Collaborators (subset)
Lawrence Wald, PhD, Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School
Bruce Rosen, MD, PhD, Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School
Susie Huang, MD, PhD, Radiologist in Neuroradiology, Associate Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School
Jonathan Polimeni, PhD, Associate Professor of Radiology at Stanford University
Laura Lewis, PhD, Associate Professor of IMES and EECS, MIT
Leo Tsai, MD, PhD, Radiologist in Abdominal Imaging, Assistant Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School
Hong-Hsi Lee, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School
Timothy Reese, PhD, Assistant Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School
Ovidiu Andronesi, PhD, MD, Associate Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School
Kawin Setsompop, PhD, Associate Professor of Radiology at Stanford University
Berkin Bilgic, PhD, Associate Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School
Shahin Nasr, PhD, Assistant Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School
Padmavathi (Sundaram) Patel, PhD, Assistant Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School
Anastasia Yendiki, PhD, Associate Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School
Chiara Maffei, PhD, Instructor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School