😉 About Me

I’m fourth-year undergraduate student from Tanwei College and School of Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University. My research interest includes diffusion MRI and neuroscience.

I am very fortunate to be advised by Prof. Qiyuan Tian of Birth Lab.

You can find my CV here: Jialan Zheng’s Curriculum Vitae.

🔥 News

2025.07.18: Attended the MICS 2025 in Cixi, China.

2025.07.11: Visited Xiamen to meet with the Magnetic Resonance guided Focused UltraSound (MRgFUS) project team at West China Xiamen Hospital, Sichuan University.

2025.06.29: 🎉🎉 Honored to be featured in the Outstanding Graduate Spotlight by the School of Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University!

2025.06.25: Attended the the OHBM 2025 in Brisbane, Australia and gave a poster presentation.

2025.06.21: 🎉🎉 Awarded Outstanding Bachelor's Graduate of Beijing (6/130) and Outstanding Bachelor's Graduate of Tsinghua University (2/130)!

2025.06.08: Our paper has been submitted to Imaging Neuroscience, wish it good luck!

2025.05.28: 🎉🎉 Awarded Future Scholars Scholarship!

2025.05.12: Attended the the ISMRM 2025 in Honolulu, USA and gave a poster presentation.

2025.02.17: Attended the ISMRM Workshop on 40 Years of Diffusion: Past, Present and Future Perspectives in Kyoto, Japan and gave an oral presentation.

2025.02.12: 🎉🎉 Our paper regarding myelination has been accepted by OHBM 2025.

2025.02.01: 🎉🎉 Our papers regarding OGSE sequence and short-range association fibers have been accepted by ISMRM 2025.

2024.12.25: 🎉🎉 Our paper regarding short-range association fibers have been accepted by ISMRM 2025 Workshop on 40 Years of Diffusion as oral presentation!

2024.12.11: 🎉🎉 Awarded Scholarship for Science and Technology Innovation Excellence by Tsinghua University.

2024.10.10: 🎉🎉 Awarded National Scholarship by Ministry of Education!

2024.09.18: 🎉🎉 Admitted to the Ph.D. program in Biomedical Engineering at Tsinghua University, under the supervision of Prof. Qiyuan Tian.

2024.09.02: 🎉🎉 Awarded Beijing Natural Science Foundation funding as Principal Investigator!

2024.07.25: 🎉🎉 Awarded the 1st prize at the 9th National Biomedical Engineering Innovation Design Competition for College Students (Top 5%).

2024.06.25: Travel to Boston for summer research.

2024.05.08: Attended the ISMRM 2024 in Singapore and gave a poster presentation.

2024.02.13: 🎉🎉 Awarded Educational Stipend Award by ISMRM 2024.

2024.02.12: 🎉🎉 Our paper regarding COVID-19 has been accepted by ISMRM 2024.

2023.12.11: 🎉🎉 Awarded Scholarship for Science and Technology Innovation Excellence by Tsinghua University.

2023.10.11: 🎉🎉 Awarded National Scholarship by Ministry of Education!

2023.10.02: Attended the NUS-THU Joint Workshop on Biomedical Engineering 2023 hosted by the National University of Singapore and posted a poster.

2023.12.11: 🎉🎉 Awarded Scholarship for Academic Excellence by Tanwei College.

2023.12.11: 🎉🎉 Awarded Comprehensive Excellence Scholarship by Tsinghua University!

📖 Educations

2021.09 - 2025.06, Undergraduate student: Tanwei College (Major in Chemical Biology + Biomedical Engineering), Tsinghua University, China.

💻 Internships

2024.06 - 2024.09, student intern: Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, MA, USA. Research under Professor Susie Y. Huang and Hong-Hsi Lee.

📝 Publications

# co-first author

* corresponding author

FIRST AUTHOR CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS [-]

Quantification of Human Brain White Matter Myelination using ViSTa MRI Fingerprinting
[Paper]
Jialan Zheng, Cong Yang, Wen Zhong, Ziang Wang, Haoxiang Li, Zihan Li, Mingxuan Liu, Hongjia Yang, Xiaozhi Cao, Congyu Liao, David H. Salat, Susie Y. Huang, Qiyuan Tian*
the annual meeting of Organization of Human Brain Mapping (OHBM). 2025. (Poster)
Effect of Diffusion MRI Acquisition and Nominal Spatial Resolutions on Fiber Reconstruction and Connectivity Estimation
[Paper]
Jialan Zheng, Cong Yang, Wen Zhong, Ziang Wang, Haoxiang Li, Zihan Li, Mingxuan Liu, Hongjia Yang, Xiaozhi Cao, Congyu Liao, David H. Salat, Susie Y. Huang, Qiyuan Tian*
ISMRM Workshop on 40 Years of Diffusion. 2025. (Oral Presentation)
Impacts of diffusion MRI spatial resolution on the short-range association fiber reconstruction and connectivity estimation
[Paper]
Jialan Zheng, Cong Yang, Wen Zhong, Ziang Wang, Haoxiang Li, Zihan Li, Mingxuan Liu, Hongjia Yang, Xiaozhi Cao, Congyu Liao, David H. Salat, Susie Y. Huang, Qiyuan Tian*
the annual meeting of International Society of Magnetic Resonance for Medicine (ISMRM). 2025. (Traditional Poster)
Revealing Diffusion Frequency-Dependence in Surface-to-Volume Ratio limit using OGSE sequence on the Connectome 2.0 Scanner.
[Paper]
Jialan Zheng, Wen Zhong, Dongsuk Song, Julianna Gerold, Qiyuan Tian, Hua Guo, Susie Y. Huang, Hong-Hsi Lee*
the annual meeting of International Society of Magnetic Resonance for Medicine (ISMRM). 2025. (Traditional Poster)
Short-term White Matter Microstructural Changes in Young Adults Infected with SARS-COV-2 Omicron Variant.
[Paper]
Jialan Zheng, Jiachen Liu, Cong Yang, Hongjia Yang, Zihan Li, Haoxiang Li, Haiyan Ding, Xihai Zhao, Qiyuan Tian*
the annual meeting of International Society of Magnetic Resonance for Medicine (ISMRM). 2024. (Digital Poster)

COAUTHOR JOURNAL PAPERS [+]

Artificial intelligence for neuro MRI acquisition: a review
[Paper]
Hongjia Yang#, Guanhua Wang#, Ziyu Li, Haoxiang Li, Jialan Zheng, Yuxin Hu, Xiaozhi Cao, Congyu Liao, Huihui Ye, Qiyuan Tian*
Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine (MAGMA). 2024.

COAUTHOR CONFERENCE PAPERS [+]

FetalCSR: Multi-input Attention Fusion Network for Neural ODE-based Fetal Cortical Surface Reconstruction
[Paper]
Haoxiang Li#, Mingxuan Liu#, Xuguang Bai, Yi Liao, Jialan Zheng, Hongjia Yang, Zihan Li, Haibo Qu, Qiyuan Tian*
ICLR 2025 Workshop on AI for Children (ICLR Workshop). 2025. (Oral Paper Presentation)

COAUTHOR CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS [+]

Unsupervised Fetal Brain MRI Quality Assessment based on Orientation Prediction Uncertainty
Mingxuan Liu, Haoxiang Li, Zihan Li, Hongjia Yang, Jialan Zheng, Haibo Qu, Qiyuan Tian*
[Paper]
the Annual Meeting of Organization of Human Brain Mapping (OHBM). 2025. (Poster, OHBM Merit Abstract Award)
Volume Reconstruction from Single MRI Thick-slice Stack with Deep Learning for Fetal Brain
Hongjia Yang, Mingxuan Liu, Yi Liao, Juncheng Zhu, Haoxiang Li, Zihan Li, Jize Zhang, Jialan Zheng, Ziyu Li, Haibo Qu, Qiyuan Tian*
the Annual Meeting of Organization of Human Brain Mapping (OHBM). 2025. (Poster)
DeepEddy: high-quality eddy current and bulk motion correction using deep learning-based image synthesis and co-registration
[Paper]
Jize Zhang, Frederik Lange, Jesper Andersson, Jialan Zheng, Yi Jing, Hongjia Yang, Mingxuan Liu, Zihan Li, Wenchuan Wu, Qiyuan Tian, Ziyu Li*
ISMRM Workshop on 40 Years of Diffusion. 2025. (Oral Presentation)
DIMOND++: Improving diffusion model optimization using diffusion priors
[Paper]
Zihan Li, Jialan Zheng, Ziyu Li, Ziang Wang, Mingxuan Liu, Hongjia Yang, Guochen Ning, Hongen Liao, Qiyuan Tian*
ISMRM Workshop on 40 Years of Diffusion. 2025. (Poster)
BrainSFUDA: Fetal Brain Extraction from Diffusion-weighted MR Images using Source-free Unsupervised Domain Adaption
[Paper]
Yijin Li, Mingxuan Liu, Junchen Zhu, Hongjia Yang, Jialan Zheng, Ziyu Li, Yi Liao, Haibo Qu, Qiyuan Tian*
ISMRM Workshop on 40 Years of Diffusion. 2025. (Oral Power Pitch)
DiffKAN3D: Efficient and Accurate 3D Diffusion MRI Parameter Estimation for Real-Time Clinical Applications
[Paper]
Yifei Chen, Zihan Li, Shenghao Zhu, Ziyu Li, Jialan Zheng, Hongjia Yang, Mingxuan Liu, Qiyuan Tian*
ISMRM Workshop on 40 Years of Diffusion. 2025. (Poster)
Revealing membrane integrity in human brain using oscillating-gradient diffusion sequence in two frequency-varying regimes.
Dongsuk Song, Wen Zhong, Jialan Zheng, Qiyuan Tian, Hua Guo, Susie Y. Huang, Hong-Hsi Lee*
the annual meeting of International Society of Magnetic Resonance for Medicine (ISMRM). 2025. (Oral Presentation, ISMRM Summa Cum Laude Merit Award, TOP 5%)
FetalSR: Super-resolving High-isotropic-resolution Image Volume from Single Thick-slice Stack with Deep Learning for Fetal Brain Morphometry
Hongjia Yang, Mingxuan Liu, Yi Liao, Juncheng Zhu, Haoxiang Li, Zihan Li, Jize Zhang, Jialan Zheng, Ziyu Li, Haibo Qu, Qiyuan Tian*
the annual meeting of International Society of Magnetic Resonance for Medicine (ISMRM). 2025. (Oral Presentation, ISMRM Summa Cum Laude Merit Award, TOP 5%)
Negative Impacts of Germinal Matrix-Ventricular Hemorrhage on Prenatal and Postnatal Brain Development
Haoxiang Li, Yi Liao, Juncheng Zhu, Mingxuan Liu, Jialan Zheng, Hongjia Yang, ZIhan Li, Ziyu Li, Qiyuan Tian, Haibo Qu*
the annual meeting of International Society of Magnetic Resonance for Medicine (ISMRM). 2025. (Digital Poster, ISMRM Summa Cum Laude Merit Award, TOP 5%)
DeepEddy: high-quality fast eddy current and bulk motion correction using deep learning-based image synthesis and co-registration
Jize Zhang, Frederik Lange, Jesper Andersson, Jialan Zheng, Yi Jing, Hongjia Yang, Mingxuan Liu, Zihan Li, Wenchuan Wu, Qiyuan Tian, Li Z*
the annual meeting of International Society of Magnetic Resonance for Medicine (ISMRM). 2025. (Oral Presentation, Magna Cum Laude Merit Award, Top 15%)
DIMOND++: Improving diffusion model optimization using diffusion priors
Zihan Li, Jialan Zheng, Ziyu Li, Ziang Wang, Mingxuan Liu, Guochen Ning, Hongen Liao, Qiyuan Tian*
the annual meeting of International Society of Magnetic Resonance for Medicine (ISMRM). 2025. (Oral Power Pitch, Magna Cum Laude Merit Award, Top 15%)
FreeHemoSeg: Label-Free Deep Learning Framework for Automated Segmentation of Fetal Brain Germinal Matrix and Intraventricular Hemorrhage
Mingxuan Liu, Yi Liao, Juncheng Zhu, Haoxiang Li, Hongjia Yang, Jialan Zheng, Zihan Li, Ziyu Li, Haibo Qu, Qiyuan Tian*
the annual meeting of International Society of Magnetic Resonance for Medicine (ISMRM). 2025. (Digital Poster)
CortexKAN: Multi-input KAN for fetal cortical surface reconstruction
Haoxiang Li, Mingxuan Liu, Yi Liao, Juncheng Zhu, Jialan Zheng, Hongjia Yang, Zihan Li, Haibo Qu, Qiyuan Tian*
the annual meeting of International Society of Magnetic Resonance for Medicine (ISMRM). 2025. (Digital Poster)
FetalSFUDA: Source-Free Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Fetal Brain Extraction from Different Centers or MRI Sequences
Yijin Li, Mingxuan Liu, Juncheng Zhu, Hongjia Yang, Jialan Zheng, Li Z, Yi Liao, Haibo Qu, Qiyuan Tian*
the annual meeting of International Society of Magnetic Resonance for Medicine (ISMRM). 2025. (Digital Poster)
DiffKAN: Convolutional Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks for Improved Diffusion MRI Microstructural Modeling
Yifei Chen, Zihan Li, Yuanhan Wang, Ziyu Li, Jialan Zheng, Hongjia Yang, Mingxuan Liu, Qiyuan Tian*
ISMRM & ISMRT Annual Meeting & Exhibition (ISMRM). 2025. (Digital Poster)
High-fidelity Ultra-fast Diffusion Tensor Imaging in Stroke Patients Using Transfer Learning
Yi Jing, Ziyu Li, Yu Y, Zhou J, Zihan Li, Jialan Zheng, Hongjia Yang, Mingxuan Liu, Wenchuan Wu, Qiyuan Tian, Jie Lu*
the annual meeting of International Society of Magnetic Resonance for Medicine (ISMRM). 2025. (Digital Poster)
Detecting Fetal Germinal Matrix and Intraventricular Hemorrhage in Brain MRI Using Label-free Deep Learning
Mingxuan Liu Haoxiang Li, Juncheng Zhu, Jialan Zheng, Hongjia Yang, Zihan Li, Ziyu Li, Qiyuan Tian*
Annual Meeting of Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). 2024. (Oral Paper Presentation)
Improving Microstructure Quantification using Self-supervised and Physicsinformed Deep Learning.
Zihan Li, Jialan Zheng, Ziyu Li, Yi Jing, Qiyuan Tian*
Annual Meeting of Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). 2024. (Poster)
Image Quality Assessment using an Orientation Recognition Network for Fetal MRI
[Paper]
Mingxuan Liu, Haoxiang Li, Zihan Li, Hongjia Yang, Jialan Zheng, Xiao Zhang, Qiyuan Tian*
the annual meeting of International Society of Magnetic Resonance for Medicine (ISMRM). 2024. (Oral Power Pitch, Magna Cum Laude Merit Award, Top 15%)
FetalSurfer: Automated Fetal Cortical Surface Reconstruction
[Paper]
Haoxiang Li, Mingxuan Liu, Jialan Zheng, Hongjia Yang, Zihan Li, Qiyuan Tian*
the annual meeting of International Society of Magnetic Resonance for Medicine (ISMRM). 2024. (Digital Poster)

Manuscripts Under Review [-]

Effects of diffusion MRI spatial resolution on human brain short-range association fiber reconstruction and structural connectivity estimation
[Paper]
Jialan Zheng, Ziyu Li*, Wen Zhong, Ziang Wang, Zihan Li, Hongjia Yang, Mingxuan Liu, Xiaozhi Cao, Congyu Liao, David H. Salat, Susie Y. Huang, Qiyuan Tian*
Imaging Neuroscience (IMAG). 2025. (Under Review)

🎖 Honors and Awards

2025 Outstanding Bachelor’s Graduate of Beijing.
6/130 in department
2025 Outstanding Bachelor’s Graduate of Tsinghua University.
2/130 in department
2025 Future Scholars Scholarship.
Top 3 in department.
2025 ISMRM: Educational Stipend Award.
2024 National Scholarship, Ministry of Education, P.R. China.
Top scholarship in China. 0.2% domestically. 5/130 in department.
2024 Scholarship for Science and Technology Innovation Excellence, Tsinghua University.
2024 First Prize at 9th National Biomedical Engineering Innovation Design Competition for College Students. [Certificate]
A Deep Learning-Enabled Framework for Anomaly Detection in Fetal Brain MRI (Top 5%)
2024 Third Prize at the 42nd “Challenge Cup” of Tsinghua University.
Automated Fetal MRI Image Processing and Anomaly Detection
2024 ISMRM: Educational Stipend Award
2023 National Scholarship, Ministry of Education, P.R. China.
Top scholarship in China. 0.2% domestically. 2/130 in department.
2023 Scholarship for Science and Technology Innovation Excellence, Tsinghua University.
2022 Scholarship for Comprehensive Excellence, Tsinghua University.
2022 Scholarship for Academic Excellence, Tanwei College.

🦜 Invited Talks

2025 ISMRM workshop on 40 years of diffusion: past, present and future perspective.

💰 Funding

PROJECT LEADER [-]

2024-2026 Beijing Natural Science Foundation Undergraduate “Qiyan” Program (¥50k)
2024 “Venture into the World” Undergraduate Summer Overseas Study Support Program, Tsinghua University (¥19k)
2023-2024 Initiative Scientific Research Program, Tsinghua University (¥20k)
2023-2024 Student Research Training (SRT) Program, Tsinghua University (¥5k)

KEY MEMBER [+]

2025-2026 Initiative Scientific Research Program, Tsinghua University
2025-2026 Initiative Scientific Research Program, Tsinghua University (as instructor)
2024-2027 Capital Health Development Special Program for Major Brain Diseases (Outstanding Young Investigator Innovation Project) (¥200k)
2024-2026 Beijing Natural Science Foundation Undergraduate “Qiyan” Program (¥80k)
2023-2024 Beijing Natural Science Foundation Undergraduate “Qiyan” Program (¥50k)
2023-2024 Initiative Scientific Research Program, Tsinghua University (¥50k)

🎓 Academic Service

Co-organizer of OCSMRM 2024

🔗 LINKS

BIRTHLab: The lab for Brain Imaging Research at Tsinghua
Mingxuan Liu: School of Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University
Haoxiang Li: School of Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University
Yifei Chen: School of Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University
Yingqi Hao: School of Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University