😉 About Me
I'm a second-year doctoral student from 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
2026.10.20: 🎉🎉 Awarded Comprehensive Excellence Scholarship by Tsinghua University!
2026.07.10: Attended the MICS 2026 in Beijing, China.
2026.06.15: Attended the the OHBM 2026 in Bordeaux, France and gave a poster presentation.
2026.02.13: 🎉🎉 Our paper regarding pediatric brain development has been accepted by OHBM 2026.
2025.12.06: 🎉🎉 Our paper has been accepted by Imaging Neuroscience.
2025.10.21: 🎉🎉 Awarded Comprehensive Excellence Scholarship by Tsinghua University!
2025.10.18: Attended BCI-MRI Summit & World's First BCI-Customized MRI Platform Launch in Tianjin, China.
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.
2023.12.31: 🎉🎉 Honored to be featured in the Tanwei Spotlight by Tanwei College, Tsinghua University!
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
- 2025.09 - now, Doctoral student: School of Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University, China.
GPA: 4.00/4.00 - 2021.09 - 2025.06, Undergraduate student: Tanwei College (Major in Chemical Biology + Biomedical Engineering), Tsinghua University, China.
GPA: 3.98/4.00
💻 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
FIRST AUTHOR JOURNAL PAPERS [-]
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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). 2026.
FIRST AUTHOR CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS [-]
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Tractography‑Based Mapping of Spatial Patterns in Early Childhood White Matter Maturation
[Paper]
Jialan Zheng, Zihan Li, Xun Yuan, Hongjia Yang, Yi Liao, Haibo Qu, Qiyuan Tian*
the Annual Meeting of Organization of Human Brain Mapping (OHBM). 2026. (Poster) -
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) -
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. (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. (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. (Poster)
COAUTHOR JOURNAL PAPERS [+]
COAUTHOR CONFERENCE PAPERS [+]
COAUTHOR CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS [+]
🎖 Honors and Awards
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2026Scholarship for Comprehensive Excellence, Tsinghua University.
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2025Scholarship for Comprehensive Excellence, Tsinghua University.
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2025Outstanding Bachelor's Graduate of Beijing. 6/130 in department
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2025Outstanding Bachelor's Graduate of Tsinghua University. 2/130 in department
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2025Future Scholars Scholarship. 3/47 in department.
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2025ISMRM: Educational Stipend Award.
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2024National Scholarship, Ministry of Education, P.R. China. Top scholarship in China. 0.2% domestically. 5/130 in department.
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2024Scholarship for Science and Technology Innovation Excellence, Tsinghua University.
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2024First Prize at 9th National Biomedical Engineering Innovation Design Competition for College Students. [Certificate]
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2024Third Prize at the 42nd "Challenge Cup" of Tsinghua University.
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2024ISMRM: Educational Stipend Award
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2023National Scholarship, Ministry of Education, P.R. China. Top scholarship in China. 0.2% domestically. 2/130 in department.
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2023Scholarship for Science and Technology Innovation Excellence, Tsinghua University.
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2022Scholarship for Comprehensive Excellence, Tsinghua University.
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2022Scholarship 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 [+]
🎓 Public Service
- · Peer reviewer of Scientific Data
- · Peer reviewer of npj Digital Medicine
- · Academic Program Lead, 2026 Annual Retreat of the Center for Biomedical Imaging Research (CBIR), Tsinghua University
- · Volunteer of MICS 2026
- · Co-organizer of OCSMRM 2024