Hometown: Shaanxi, China “She Was Born and Grew up in Baoji

Hometown: Shaanxi, China

“She was born and grew up in Baoji, China. She attended Xi’an Jiaotong University and got her Bachelor Degree in Biomedical Engineering in 2006. Following graduation, she attended Tsinghua University in 2006 and got her Ph.D degree in Biomedical Engineering in 2011. During her Ph.D period, she studied at department of Radiation Medicine and Applied Sciences at University of California, San Diego (UCSD) for one year as a visiting graduate student. After she got her Ph.D degree, she went back to UCSD and received her two-year postdoc training there. Before joining our medical physics residency program, she was a research instructor at our department. ”

Education (example only below)

BSE, Biomedical Engineering: Xi’an Jiaotong University, China (2006) PhD, Biomedical Engineering: Tsinghua University (2011)

Publications

• Book Chapters: 1. Tian Z, Gautier Q, Gu XJ, Men CH, Fei P, Zarepisheh M, Graves YJ, Uribe-Sanchez, A, Jia X, Jiang SB. Chapter 21: SCORE systen for Online adaptive radiotherapy, in Graphics processing unit-based high performance computing in radiation therapy, published by CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015. 2. Peng F, Tian Z, Romeijn H E, Men CH. Chapter 18: Treatment plan optimization for Volumetric-Modulated Arc Therapy (VMAT), in Graphics processing unit-based high performance computing in radiation therapy, published by CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015. 3. Graves Y J, Folkerts M, Tian Z, Gautier Q, Gu XJ, Jia X, Jiang SB. Chapter 22: TARGET: a GPU-based patient-specific quality assurance system for radiation therapy, in Graphics processing unit-based high performance computing in radiation therapy, published by CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015. • Papers: 1. Tian Z, Jiang SB, Jia X, Accelerated Monte Carlo Simulation on the Chemical Stage in Water Radiolysis using GPU, Phys. Med. Biol., 62, 3081 (2017). 2. Qin N, Pinto M, Tian Z, Dedes G, Pompos A, Jiang SB, Parodi K, and Jia X, Initial Development of goCMC: A GPU-oriented Fast Cross-Platform Monte Carlo Engine for Carbon Ion Therapy, Phys. Med. Biol., 62, 3682 (2017). 3. Tian Z, Li Y, Folkerts M, Jiang SB, Jia X. Moving GPU-OpenCL-based Monte Carlo dose calculation toward clinical use: Automatic beam commissioning and source sampling for treatment plan dose calculation, JACMP, 18:2, 6984 (2017). 4. Chang J, Tian Z, Lu WG, Gu XJ, Chen ML and Jiang SB. A novel geometry-dosimetry label fusion method in multi-atlas segmentation for radiotherapy: a proof-of-concept study, Phys. Med. Biol. 62: 3656–3667(2017) 5. Jia X, Tian Z, Xi Y, Jiang SB, Wang G, A new concept on an integrated interiorMRI and medical linear accelerator system (iMRI-LINAC) for radiation therapy, J. Med. Imag.4(1), 015004 (2017). 6. Li YB, Tian Z, Song T, Wu ZX, Liu YQ, Jiang SB, Jia X, A New Approach to Integrate GPU- based Monte Carlo Simulation into Inverse Treatment Plan Optimization for Proton Therapy, Phys. Med. Biol., 62, 289 (2017). 7. Qin N, Botas P, Giantsoudi D, Schuemann J, Tian Z, Jiang SB, Paganetti H, and Jia X, Recent developments and comprehensive evaluations of a GPU-based Monte Carlo package for proton therapy, Phys. Med. Biol., 61, 7347 (2016). 8. Chi YJ, Tian Z, Jia X. Modeling parameterized geometry in GPU-based Monte Carlo particle transport simulation for radiotherapy, Phys. Med. Biol., 61, 5851, (2016). 9. Tian Z, Zhang M, Hrycushko B, Albuquerque K, Jiang SB, Jia X. Monte Carlo dose calculations for high-dose-rate brachytherapy using GPU accelerated processing (Brachytherapy, 15(3):387-98, 2016). 10. Yan H, Tian Z, Shao YP, Jiang SB, Jia X. A new scheme for real-time, low-dose, high- contrast imaging in lung cancer radiotherapy: a proof-of-concept study (Phys. Med. Biol., 61(6):2372-88, 2016). 11. Ting S, Staub D, Chen ML, Lu W, Tian Z, Jia X, Li YB, Zhou LH, Jiang S, Gu XJ. Patient- specific dosimetric endpoints based treatment plan quality control in radiotherapy, Phys. Med. Biol., 2015, 60: 8213-8227. 12. Tian Z, Li Y, Folkerts M, Shi F, Jiang SB, Jia X. An analytic linear accelerator source model for GPU-based Monte Carlo dose calculations, Phys. Med. Biol., 2015, 60:7941-67. 13. Tian Z, Shi F, Folkerts M, Qin N, Jiang SB, Jia X. A GPU OpenCL based Cross-platform Monte Carlo dose calculation engine (goMC) for coupled photon-electron transport, Phys. Med. Biol., 2015, 60(19):7419-35. (Featured article; Journal “Phys.Med.Biol” Top 10 Most Read Papers in Nov 2015; Reported by the medical physics web; Included into International workshop issue on OpenCL website) 14. Tian Z, Peng F, Folkerts M, Tan J, Jia X, Jiang SB. Multi-GPU implementation of a VMAT treatment plan optimization algorithm, Med. Phys., 2015, 42(6):2841-52. (Reported by medical physics web) 15. Li YB, Tian Z, Shi F, Song T, Wu ZX, Liu YQ, Jiang SB, Jia X. A new Monte Carlo-based treatment plan optimization approach for intensity modulated radiation therapy, Phys. Med. Biol., 2015, 60: 2903 -2919. 16. Li YB, Hoisak J, Li N, Jiang CY, Tian Z, Gautier Q, Zarepisheh M, Wu ZX, Liu YQ, Jia X, Hattangadi-Gluth J, Mell LK, Jiang SB, and Murphy JD, Dosimetric beneﬁt of adaptive replanning in pancreatic cancer stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT), Med. Dos., S0958- 3947(15), 35 (2015). 17. Tian Z, Graves YJ, Jia X, Jiang SB. Automatic commissioning of a GPU-based Monte Carlo radiation dose calculation code for photon radiotherapy, Phys. Med. Biol., 2014, 59(21): 6467-86. 18. Lu WT, Yan H, Gu XJ, Tian Z, Ouyang L, Yang L, Zhou LH, Cervino L, Wang J, Jiang SB, Jia X. Reconstructing cone-beam CT with spatially varying quality for adaptive radiotherapy, a proof-of-principle study, Phys. Med. Biol., 2014, 59(20): 6251-66. 19. Zarepisheh M, Long T, Li N, Tian Z, Romeijn HE, Jia X, Jiang SB. A DVH-guided IMRT optimization algorithm for automatic treatment planning and adaptive radiotherapy replanning, Med. Phys., 2014, 41(6):061711. 20. Townson R, Jia X, Tian Z, Graves YJ, Zavgorodni Sergei, Jiang SB. GPU-based Monte Carlo radiotherapy dose calculation using phase-space sources, Phys. Med. Biol., 2013, 58(12): 4341-4356. 21. Li N, Zarepisheh M, Uribe-Sanchez A, Moore K, Tian Z, Zhen X, Graves Y J, Gautier Q, Mell L, Zhou LH, Jia X and Jiang SB. Automatic treatment plan re-optimization for adaptive radiotherapy guided with the initial plan DVHs, 2013, Phys. Med. Biol., 58(24): 8725-8738. 22. Jia X, Tian Z, Lou Y, Sonke JJ, Jiang SB. Four-dimensional cone beam CT reconstruction and enhancement using a temporal nonlocal means method, Med. Phys., 2012, 39(9): 5592-5602. 23. Tian Z, Jia X, Yuan KH, Pan T, Jiang SB. Low-dose CT reconstruction via edge-preserving total variation regularization. Phys. Med. Biol., 2011, 56(18): 6009-30. (Journal “Phys.Med.Biol” Top Five Most Cited Papers in 2012-2013). 24. Tian Z, Jia X, Jiang S. Low-dose 4DCT reconstruction via temporal nonlocal means. Med. Phys., 2011, 38(3):1359-1365. 25. Tian Z, Duan C J, Yuan K H, et al. A texture feature-based method for dynamic organ tracking. International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control, 2010, 6(12): 5679-5708. 26. Yuan K H, Tian Z, Zou J Y, et al. Brain CT image database building for computer-aided diagnosis using content-based image retrieval. Information Processing & Management, 2010, 47(2): 176-185. 27. Duan CJ, Tian Z, Liang Z R, et al. Segmenting bladder wall and estimating wall thickness for magnetic resonance virtual cystoscopy. Tsinghua Science and technology, 2010, 50(9):1445- 1448. 28. Duan CJ, Tian Z, Liang Z R, Bao S L. A review on virtual cystoscopy techniques. Chinese Journal of Medical Physics, 2010, 27(2): 1712-1715. 29. Yuan K H, Duan C J, Tian Z. A 4D CT sorting algorithm based on image boundary discontinuity. 2010 International Conference on Medical Image Analysis and Clinical Application, 2010:147-150. 30. Jia X, Lou Y, Dong B, Tian Z, Jiang SB. 4D computed tomography reconstruction from few- projection data via temporal non-local regularization, Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention–MICCAI 2010, 2010:143-150. 31. Tian Z, Zou J Y, Yuan K H. Automatic detection of abnormal regions using Gaussian mixture model. ICIC Express Letters, 2009, 3(4): 921-926. 32. Tian Z, Yuan K H, Bai Y L. 4D CT image simulation using B-Spline deformable model and cosine interpolation of Deformation field. 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2009: 3541-3544. 33. Tian Z, Bai Y L, Yuan K H, Ye D T. Progress on compensation for tumor motion induced by respiration in radiotherapy. Chinese Journal of Medical Physics, 2009, 26(3):1149-1153. 34. Tian Z, Guan T, Ye D T. A searching method of fundamental frequencies smoothing with variable threshold. Beijing Biomedical Engineering, 2009, 28(2):160-164. 35. Yuan K H, Tian Z, Zou J Y. Automatic position annotation of brain CT axial slice for content- based image retrieval. Fourth International Conference on Innovative Computing, Information and Control, 2009: 315-318.