Radiological Sciences Research Seminar Series

Xiaoping Hu obtained his PhD in medical physics in 1988 from the University of Chicago. He started his academic career in 1990 as an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota, where he became an associate professor in 1994 and a full professor in 1998. From 2002 to 2016, he was Professor and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Imaging in the Wallace H. Coulter joint department of biomedical engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University. In July 2016, Hu joined UC Riverside as professor and chair of bioengineering and director of the Center for Advanced Neuroimaging.

Hu has worked on the development and biomedical application of magnetic resonance imaging, with an emphasis on the brain, for almost four decades. He has authored or co-authored 327 peer-reviewed journal articles, with a total of 37,000+ citations and an h-index of 103.  He is currently on the editorial board of Brain Connectivity and is an associate editor of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. He is a fellow of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, a fellow of IEEE, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, a fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering and a fellow of the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineers. He was named Reza Abbaschian Chair in July 2023 and promoted to distinguished professor in July 2024.