GuangZhong Yang
ProfessorGuang-ZhongYang,PhD,FREngisDirectorandCo-founderoftheHamlynCentreforRoboticSurgery,DeputyChairmanoftheInstituteofGlobalHealthInnovation,ImperialCollegeLondon,UK.ProfessorYangalsoholdsanumberofkeyacademicpositionsatImperial–heisDirectorandFounderoftheRoyalSociety/WolfsonMedicalImageComputingLaboratory,co-founderoftheWolfsonSurgicalTechnologyLaboratory,ChairmanoftheCentreforPervasiveSensing.ProfessorYang’smainresearchinterestsareinmedicalimaging,sensingandrobotics.Inimaging,heiscreditedforanumberofnovelMRphasecontrastvelocityimagingandcomputationalmodellingtechniquesthathavetransformedinvivobloodflowquantificationandvisualization.Theseincludethedevelopmentoflocallyfocusedimagingcombinedwithreal-timenavigatorechoesforresolvingrespiratorymotionforhigh-resolutioncoronary-angiography,aswellasMRdynamicflowpressuremappingforwhichhereceivedtheISMRMI.IRabiAward.Hepioneeredtheconceptofperceptualdockingforroboticcontrol,whichrepresentsaparadigmshiftoflearningandknowledgeacquisitionofmotor