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Jun Deng, PhD, DABR, FAAPM, FASTRO

Professor of Therapeutic Radiology
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Director of Physics Research, Therapeutic Radiology

Associate Director of Medical Physics Residency Program, Therapeutic Radiology

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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.

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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 Subject Headings (MeSH)

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

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2022

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Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

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    American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)

    Professional OrganizationsMember
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    American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO)

    Professional OrganizationsMember
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    Radiological Society of North America (RSNA)

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

    Professional OrganizationsPresident
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    RSNA Research & Education Foundation Study Section

    Peer Review Groups and Grant Study SectionsMember
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Therapeutic Radiology

PO Box 208040

New Haven, CT 06520-8040

United States

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