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Dr. Kuang Gong
Assistant Professor, University of Florida
Bio
Dr. Kuang Gong is an Assistant Professor in the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Florida. He received his M.S. in Statistics and Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of California, Davis in 2015 and 2018, respectively. His expertise includes image reconstruction, deep learning, and image analysis, with a focus on applying these techniques to improve the diagnosis and treatment of diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease and cancer. His lab’s recent research topics include diffusion model-based PET image quality enhancement, harmonization of tau PET images, and vision-language models for radiology report generation and image analysis. He received the Bruce H. Hasegawa Young Investigator Medical Imaging Science Award from the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society in 2021 for contributions to machine learning-based PET image reconstruction, denoising, and attenuation correction.