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    Jun Deng, PhD, DABR, FAAPM, FASTRO

    Professor of Therapeutic Radiology
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    Additional Titles

    Director of Physics Research, Therapeutic Radiology

    Associate Director of Medical Physics Residency Program, Therapeutic Radiology

    About

    Titles

    Professor of Therapeutic Radiology

    Director of Physics Research, Therapeutic Radiology; Associate Director of Medical Physics Residency Program, Therapeutic Radiology

    Biography

    Dr. Jun Deng is a Professor at the Department of Therapeutic Radiology and the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science of Yale University School of Medicine and an ABR board certified medical physicist at Yale-New Haven Hospital. Dr. Deng obtained his PhD from University of Virginia and finished his postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University. With funding from NIBIB, NSF, NCI, DOE and YCC, Dr. Deng’s research has been focused on artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data, and medical imaging for early cancer detection, real-time clinical decision support, digital twins of cancer patients, as well as AI-empowered mobile health and smart medicine. Dr. Deng has been serving on the Editorial Board of numerous peer-reviewed journals, on the study sections of NIH, NSF, DOD, ACS, RSNA and ASTRO since 2005, and as scientific reviewer for various science foundations and institutions since 2015. Dr. Deng is an elected fellow of Institute of Physics, AAPM, and ASTRO.

    Appointments

    • Biomedical Informatics & Data Science

      Professor
      Secondary

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    Education & Training

    Postdoctoral Fellowship
    Stanford University (2001)
    PhD
    University of Virginia (1998)
    BS
    Sichuan University (1991)

    Research

    Overview

    Dr. Deng's research has been focused on AI for precision medicine, and AI for precision radiotherapy. Some active projects are listed below:

    1. Early cancer detection via statistical modeling of personal health data;
    2. Artificial intelligence for clinical decision support;
    3. Machine learning with radiation oncology big data;
    4. A generalizable data framework toward precision radiotherapy;
    5. Multiscale digital twin modeling of cancer patients;
    6. AI-empowered mobile health and smart medicine.

    Medical Research Interests

    Artificial Intelligence; Big Data; Early Detection of Cancer; Health Care; Health Disparate, Minority and Vulnerable Populations; Machine Learning; Medical Informatics; Mobile Applications; Public Health Informatics; Radiation Oncology

    Research at a Glance

    Yale Co-Authors

    Frequent collaborators of Jun Deng's published research.

    Publications

    2024

    2023

    2022

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    Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

    • activity

      American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)

      Professional OrganizationsMember
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      American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO)

      Professional OrganizationsMember
    • activity

      Radiological Society of North America (RSNA)

      Professional OrganizationsMember
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      Connecticut Area Medical Physics Society (CAMPS), AAPM

      Professional OrganizationsPresident
    • activity

      RSNA Research & Education Foundation Study Section

      Peer Review Groups and Grant Study SectionsMember
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    Get In Touch

    Contacts

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    Mailing Address

    Therapeutic Radiology

    PO Box 208040

    New Haven, CT 06520-8040

    United States

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