Jun Deng, PhD, DABR, FAAPM, FASTRO

Dr. Jun Deng is a Professor and Director of Physics Research at the Department of Therapeutic Radiology; a Professor at the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science of Yale University School of Medicine; an ABR board certified medical physicist at Yale-New Haven Hospital; the Principal Investigator of Yale Smart Medicine Lab; and the President of the Digital Twins for Health Society. Dr. Deng received his PhD from University of Virginia and finished his postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University. With funding from NIBIB, NSF, NCI, DOE, YCC, and Amazon, Dr Deng’s research has been focused on AI, machine learning, and medical imaging for real-time clinical decision support, digital twins of cancer patients, early cancer detection, as well as AI-empowered mobile health. Dr. Deng has been serving on the editorial board of numerous peer-reviewed journals, on the study sections of NIH, NSF, DOD, ACS, RSNA, ASTRO, and CPRIT since 2005, and as scientific reviewer for various national and international science foundations since 2015. Dr. Deng is an elected fellow of IOP, AAPM, ASTRO, and has been recently selected as one of the Key Thought Leaders of the NCI Cancer AI Accelerator Program, one of the Experts for the NIH AIM-AHEAD PAIR Program, and one of the Mentors for the NIH AIM-AHEAD Research Fellows Program.