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Researcher

Dinggang Shen

Also known as 沈定刚

Dinggang Shen is a professor and founding dean of the School of Biomedical Engineering at ShanghaiTech University, and co-CEO of United Imaging Intelligence (UII) in Shanghai. He was one of the first to apply deep learning to medical imaging in 2012, and he co-wrote the 2017 review Deep Learning in Medical Image Analysis. He held faculty posts at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Pennsylvania before joining UNC Chapel Hill as an associate professor in April 2008. The International Association for Pattern Recognition named him a fellow in 2018, and he received the IEEE EMBS Technical Achievement Award in 2024. In 2025 he won the MICCAI Enduring Impact Award, becoming the first Chinese scholar to do so.

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Timeline

  1. 2001–2008

    Faculty posts before UNC

    He is a faculty member at Johns Hopkins University in 2001 and 2002. He becomes a tenure-track assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania in July 2002. He then joins UNC Chapel Hill as an associate professor in April 2008.

  2. 2012–2015

    Deep learning in medical images

    He is one of the first to apply deep learning to medical imaging in 2012. He sits on the Board of Directors of the MICCAI Society from 2012 to 2015.

  3. 2017

    A review of deep learning

    He co-writes the review Deep Learning in Medical Image Analysis with Guorong Wu and Heung-Il Suk, published in 2017. The review covers computer-assisted analysis of images in the field of medical imaging.

  4. 2018

    Fellow of the IAPR

    The International Association for Pattern Recognition names him a fellow in 2018 for contributions to biomedical applications of pattern recognition and medical image analysis.

  5. 2019

    General chair of MICCAI 2019

    He takes on the role of general chair for MICCAI 2019.

  6. 2024

    IEEE EMBS Technical Achievement Award

    He receives the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Technical Achievement Award in 2024. The International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine also names him a fellow for 2024.

  7. 2025

    MICCAI Enduring Impact Award

    He receives the MICCAI Enduring Impact Award at the 2025 MICCAI conference, becoming the first Chinese scholar to win this honor.

  8. As of October 2026

    Founding dean at ShanghaiTech

    He is a professor and founding dean of the School of Biomedical Engineering at ShanghaiTech University. He is also co-CEO of United Imaging Intelligence (UII) in Shanghai.

Sources and credits

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  1. Keynote Speaker | DLMIA 2016 - MICCAI workshop | 2nd Workshop on Deep Learning in Medical Image Analysis cs.adelaide.edu.au. Checked 14 October 2026.
  2. 学术交流 - 电子科技大学研究生院 gr.uestc.edu.cn. Checked 14 October 2026.
  3. Dinggang Shen bme.shanghaitech.edu.cn. Checked 14 October 2026.
  4. Dinggang Shen, Ph.D. | EMBC 2019 embc.embs.org. Checked 14 October 2026.
  5. Deep Learning in Medical Image Analysis | CiteDrive citedrive.com. Checked 14 October 2026.
  6. Deep Learning in Medical Image Analysis scholar.korea.ac.kr. Checked 14 October 2026.
  7. Chronological List of IAPR Fellows – International Association for Pattern Recognition iapr.org. Checked 14 October 2026.
  8. Join the MICCAI Fellows Talk with Dinggang Shen - August 25 - MICCAI Society miccai.org. Checked 14 October 2026.
  9. Shen Dinggang wins IEEE EMBS Technical Achievement Award shanghaitech.edu.cn. Checked 14 October 2026.
  10. Professor Shen Dinggang Elected as ISMRM Fellow shanghaitech.edu.cn. Checked 14 October 2026.
  11. BME Professor Shen Dinggang wins the MICCAI Enduring Impact Award shanghaitech.edu.cn. Checked 14 October 2026.
  12. Prof. Dinggang SHEN, Ph.D., FIEEE, FAIMBE, FIAPR, FMICCAI | Research Institute for Intelligent Wearable Systems polyu.edu.hk. Checked 14 October 2026.