Biography

Education

Teaching Experience

  • TA, EE369B Medical Imaging Systems II, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, Spring 2012.

  • TA, EE102A Signal Processing and Linear Systems I, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, Winter 2012.

  • TA, 6.003 Signal and Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, Spring 2007.

  • TA, 6.002 Circuits and Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, Fall 2006.

Research Experience

Honors

Journal Publications

  1. Cheng JY, Chen F, Alley MT, Pauly JM, Vasanawala SS. Highly scalable image reconstruction using deep neural networks with bandpass filtering. arXiv:1805.03300 [cs.CV], 2018.

  2. Datta A, Cheng JY, Hargreaves BA, Baron CA, Nishimura DG. Mitigation of near-band balanced steady-state free precession through-plane flow artifacts using partial dephasing. Magn. Reson. Med. 79, 2944–2953 (2018).

  3. Ong F, Cheng JY, Lustig M. General phase regularized reconstruction using phase cycling. Magn. Reson. Med. 80, 112–125 (2018).

  4. Feneis JF, Kyubwa E, Atianzar K, Cheng JY, Alley MT, Vasanawala SS, Demaria AN, Hsiao A. 4D flow MRI quantification of mitral and tricuspid regurgitation: Reproducibility and consistency relative to conventional MRI. J Magn Reson Imaging 2018.

  5. Masutani EM, Contijoch F, Kyubwa E, Cheng JY, Alley MT, Vasanawala SS, Hsiao A. Volumetric segmentation-free method for rapid visualization of vascular wall shear stress using 4D flow MRI. Magn. Reson. Med. (2018). doi:10.1002/mrm.27159

  6. Chen F, Taviani V, Tamir JI, Cheng JY, Zhang T, Song Q, Hargreaves BA, Pauly JM, Vasanawala SS. Self-Calibrating Wave-Encoded Variable-Density Single-Shot Fast Spin Echo Imaging. J. Magn. Reson. Imaging 47, 954–966 (2018).

  7. Mardani M, Gong E, Cheng JY, Pauly JM, Xing L. Recurrent generative adversarial neural networks for compressive imaging. in 2017 IEEE 7th International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMSAP) 1–5 (IEEE, 2017). doi:10.1109/CAMSAP.2017.8313209

  8. Cheng JY, Zhang T, Alley MT, Uecker M, Lustig M, Pauly JM, Vasanawala SS. Comprehensive Multi-Dimensional MRI for the Simultaneous Assessment of Cardiopulmonary Anatomy and Physiology, Scientific Reports 2017;7:5330. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-04676-8

  9. Zucker EJ*, Cheng JY*, Haldipur A, Carl M, Vasanawala SS. Free-breathing pediatric chest MRI: Performance of self-navigated golden-angle ordered conical ultrashort echo time acquisition, Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging 2017. doi: 10.1002/jmri.25776 (*Equal contribution to this work)

  10. Mardani, Gong E, Cheng JY, Vasanawala SS, Zaharchuk G, Alley MT, Thakur N, Han S, Dally W, Pauly JM, Xing L. Deep generative adversarial networks for compressed sensing automates MRI, arXiv:1706.00051

  11. Cheng F, Zhang T, Cheng JY, Shi X, Pauly JM, Vasanawala SS. Autocalibrating motion-corrected wave-encoding for highly accelerated free-breathing abdominal MRI, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 2016. doi: 10.1002/mrm.26567

  12. Lai LM*, Cheng JY*, Alley MT, Zhang T, Lustig M, Vasanawala SS. Feasibility of ferumoxytol-enhanced neonatal and young infant cardiac MRI without general anesthesia, Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging 2016. doi:10.1002/jmri.25482 (*Equal contribution to this work)

  13. Luo J, Addy NO, Ingle RR, Baron CA, Cheng JY, Hu BS, Nishimura DG. “Nonrigid motion correction with 3D image-based navigators for coronary MR angiography,” Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 2016. doi: 10.1002/mrm.26273

  14. Hanneman K, Kino A, Cheng JY, Alley MT, Vasanawala SS. “Assessment of the precision and reproducibility of ventricular volume, function, and mass measurements with ferumoxytol-enhanced 4D flow MRI,” Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging 2016. doi:10.1002/jmri.25180

  15. Cheng JY, Hanneman K, Zhang T, Alley MT, Lai P, Tamir JI, Uecker M, Pauly JM, Lustig M, Vasanawala SS. “Comprehensive motion-compensated highly accelerated 4D flow MRI with ferumoxytol enhancement for pediatric congenital heart disease,” Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging 2016; 43:1355-1368.

  16. Zhang T, Grafendorfer T, Cheng JY, Ning P, Rainey B, Giancola M, Ortman S, Robb FJ, Calderon PD, Hargreaves BA, Lustig M, Scott GC, Pauly JM, Vasanawala SS. “A semiflexible 64-channel receive-only phased array for pediatric body MRI at 3T,” Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 2015. doi: 10.1002/mrm.25999

  17. Zhang T, Cheng JY, Chen Y, Nishimura DG, Pauly JM, Vasanawala SS. “Robust self-navigated body MRI using dense coil arrays,” Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 2015. doi: 10.1002/mrm.25858

  18. Zhang T, Yousaf U, Hsiao A, Cheng JY, Alley MT, Lustig M, Pauly JM, Vasanawala SS. “Clinical performance of a free-breathing spatiotemporally accelerated 3-D time-resolved contrast-enhanced pediatric abdominal MR angiography,” Pediatric Radiology 2015; 45:1635-1643.

  19. Cheng JY, Zhang T, Ruangwattanapaisarn N, Alley MT, Uecker M, Pauly JM, Lustig M, Vasanawala SS. “Free-breathing pediatric MRI with nonrigid motion correction and acceleration,” Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging 2015; 42:407-420.

  20. Zhang T, Cheng JY, Potnick AG, Barth RA, Alley MT, Uecker M, Lustig M, Pauly JM, Vasanawala SS. “Fast pediatric 3D free-breathing abdominal dynamic contrast enhanced MRI with high spatiotemporal resolution,” Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging 2015; 41: 460–473. doi: 10.1002/jmri.24551

  21. Ingle RR, Wu HH, Addy NO, Cheng JY, Yang PC, Hu BS, Nishimura DG. “Nonrigid autofocus motion correction for coronary MR angiography with a 3D cones trajectory,” Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 2014; 72: 347-361.

  22. Cheng JY, Alley MT, Cunningham CH, Vasanawala SS, Pauly JM, Lustig M. “Nonrigid motion correction in 3D using autofocusing with localized linear translations,” Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 2012; 68: 1785-1797.

  23. Cheng JY, Santos JM, Pauly JM. “Fast concomitant gradient field and field inhomogeneity correction for spiral cardiac imaging,” Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 2011; 66: 390-401.

Conference Proceedings

  1. Cheng JY, Chen F, Alley MT, Pauly JM, Vasanawala SS. Highly-Scalable Image Reconstruction using Deep Neural Networks with Bandpass Filtering. In Proceedings of the Joint Annual Meeting ISMRM-ESMRMB. Paris, France; 2018, p3369.

  2. Cheng JY, Mardani M, Alley MT, Pauly JM, Vasanawala. DeepSPIRiT: Generalized Parallel Imaging using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks. In Proceedings of the Joint Annual Meeting ISMRM-ESMRMB. Paris, France; 2018, p0570.

  3. Zeng D, Shaikh J, Nishimura DG, Vasanawala SS, Cheng JY. Deep Learning Method for Non-Cartesian Off-Resonance Artifact Correction. In Proceedings of the Joint Annual Meeting ISMRM-ESMRMB. Paris, France; 2018, p0428.

  4. Mardani M, Gong E, Cheng JY, Vasanawala SS, Zaharchuk G, Xing L, Pauly JM. Deep Generative Adversarial Neural Networks for Compressed Sensing (GANCS) Automated MRI. In Proceedings of the Joint Annual Meeting ISMRM-ESMRMB. Paris, France; 2018, p0573.

  5. Chen F, Taviani V, Malkiel I, Cheng JY, Shaikh J, Chang S, Hardy CJ, Pauly JM, Vasanawala SS. Improving Variable-Density Single-Shot Fast Spin Echo with Deep-Learning Reconstruction using Variational Networks. In Proceedings of the Joint Annual Meeting ISMRM-ESMRMB. Paris, France; 2018, p0617.

  6. Cheng F, Taviani V, Cheng JY, Pauly JM, Vasanawala SS. Accelerated T2-Weighted Imaging of the Abdomen with Self-Calibrating Wave-Encoded 3D Fast Spin Echo Sequences. In Proceedings of the Joint Annual Meeting ISMRM-ESMRMB. Paris, France; 2018, p0211.

  7. Sandino CM, Cheng JY, Alley MT, Carl M, Vasanawala SS. Accelerated Abdominal 4D Flow MRI using 3D Golden-Angle Cones Trajectory. In Proceedings of the Joint Annual Meeting ISMRM-ESMRMB. Paris, France; 2018, p0684.

  8. Malave MO, Koundinyan SP, Sandino CM, Cheng JY, Nishimura DG. Improved Design and Reconstruction of 3D Image Based Navigators for Coronary MR Angiography. In Proceedings of the Joint Annual Meeting ISMRM-ESMRMB. Paris, France; 2018, p0920.

  9. Koundinyan SP, Baron CA, Dwork, N, Cheng JY, Nishimura DG. Nonrigid Motion Correction using 3D iNAVs with Generalized Motion Compensated Reconstruction and Autofocusing. In Proceedings of the Joint Annual Meeting ISMRM-ESMRMB. Paris, France; 2018, p0474.

  10. Zeng D, Shaikh J, Nishimura DG, Vasanawala SS, Cheng JY. Off-ResNet: Deep Residual Network for Non-Stationary Off-Resonance Artifact Correction. ISMRM Workshop 2018 on Machine Learning, Asilomar Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, California, USA. Honorable Mention, Oral Presention 🏆

  11. Sandino C, Dixit N, Vasanawala SS, Cheng JY. Deep convolutional neural networks for accelerated dynamic magnetic resonance imaging. ISMRM Workshop 2018 on Machine Learning, Asilomar Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, California, USA. Honorable Mention, Poster 🏆

  12. Chen F, Cheng JY, Shi X, Alley MT, Pauly JM, Vasanawala SS. Free-Breathing Motion-Corrected Abdominal Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI with Soft-Projecting Deep Neural Networks. ISMRM Workshop 2018 on Machine Learning, Asilomar Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, California, USA.

  13. Mardani M, Gong E, Cheng JY, Zaharachuk G, Vasanawala SS, Pauly JM. Generative Adversarial Networks for Compressed Sensing (GANCS) MRI. ISMRM Workshop 2018 on Machine Learning, Asilomar Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, California, USA.

  14. Mardani M, Gong E, Cheng JY, Pauly JM, Xing L. Recurrent generative adversarial neural networks for compressive imaging. 2017 IEEE Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMSAP). doi:10.1109/CAMSAP.2017.8313209

  15. Mardani M, Gong E, Cheng JY, Vasanawala SS, Xing L, Pauly JM. Deep Generative Adversarial Networks for Compressed Sensing (GANCS) Automates MRI. NIPS 2017 Workshop: Medical Imaging Meets Nips, Long Beach Convention Center, California, USA.

  16. Sandino C, Dixit N, Vasanawala SS, Cheng JY. Deep convolutional neural networks for accelerated dynamic magnetic resonance imaging. NIPS 2017 Workshop: Medical Imaging Meets Nips, Long Beach Convention Center, California, USA.

  17. Addy NO, Cheng JY, Jiang W, Overall W, Hu B, Santos J. Autonomous MRI: Prescription to Ejection Fraction in 3 Minutes. NIPS 2017 Workshop: Medical Imaging Meets Nips, Long Beach Convention Center, California, USA.

  18. Cheng JY, Lu J, Scott G, Vasanawala SS. Optical Motion Monitoring for Abdominal and Lung Imaging. In Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting ISMRM. Honolulu, Hawai’i, USA; 2017. p. 2939.

  19. Cheng JY, Jiang W, Carl M, Lustig M, Vasanawala SS. Flexibility and Robustness of Cones UTE for Pediatric Abdominal and Chest Imaging. In Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting ISMRM. Honolulu, Hawai’i, USA; 2017. p. 246.

  20. Mardani M, Cheng JY, Pauly JM, Xing L. Fast 4D MRI Reconstruction Analytics using Low-Rank Tensor Imputation. In Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting ISMRM. Honolulu, Hawai’i, USA; 2017.

  21. Zucker EJ, Cheng JY, Haldipur A, Carl M, Vasanawala SS. Free-Breathing Pediatric Chest MRI: Utility of Self-Navigated Golden-Angle Ordered Conical Ultrashort Echo Time (UTE) Acquisition. In Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting. Honolulu, Hawai’i, USA; 2017. p. 826.

  22. Haldipur A, Zucker EJ, Cheng JY, Carl M, Vasanawala SS. Evaluation of Self-Navigated Golden-Angle Ordered Conical Ultrashort Echo Time (UTE) MRI of the Abdomen on Pediatric Patients in Multiple Sedation States. In Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting. Honolulu, Hawai’i, USA; 2017. p. 1023.

  23. Haldipur A, Zucker EJ, Cheng JY, Vasanawala SS. Contrast-enhanced Ultrashort Echo Time (UTE) MR of the chest to evaluate for metastatic nodules in pediatric patients with malignancy undergoing abdomen MR staging and surveillance: a high-value alternative or adjunct to CT. In Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting. Honolulu, Hawai’i, USA; 2017. p. 227.

  24. Masutani E, Cheng JY, Alley MT, Vasanawala SS, Hsiao A. Volumetric Segmentation-Free Method for Quantitative Visualization of Cardiovascular Wall Shear Stress Using 4D Flow MRI. In Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting. Honolulu, Hawai’i, USA; 2017. p. 2846.

  25. Vasanawala SS, Shah F, Alley MT, Cheng JY. Ultra-High Spatiotemporal Resolution 4D Flow for Valve and Coronary Arterial Delineation. In Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting. Honolulu, Hawai’i, USA; 2017. p. 336.

  26. Chen F, Taviani V, Cheng JY, Zhang T, Hargreaves BA, Pauly JM, Vasanawala SS. Variable Density Single-Shot Fast Spin Echo with Auto-Calibrated Wave Encoding. In Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting. Honolulu, Hawai’i, USA; 2017. p. 1038.

  27. Chen F, Cheng JY, Zhang T, Pauly JM, Vasanawala SS. Motion-Robustness Evaluation and Motion Correction of Wave-Encoding. In Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting. Honolulu, Hawai’i, USA; 2017. p. 3947.

  28. Datta A, Cheng JY, Baron C, Nishimura DG. Mitigation of BSSFP Flow Artifacts Using Partial Dephasing. In Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting. Honolulu, Hawai’i, USA; 2017. p. 572.

  29. Malavé MO, Baron C, Addy NO, Cheng JY, Hu B, Yang P, Nishimura DG. Improved Whole-Heart Coronary MR Angiography Using a 3D Cones Phyllotaxis Sequence. In Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting. Honolulu, Hawai’i, USA; 2017. p. 632.

  30. Ong F, Cheng JY, Lustig M. General Phase Regularized Reconstruction with Phase Cycling. In Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting. Honolulu, Hawai’i, USA; 2017. p. 1201.

  31. Sandino C, Alley MT, Cheng JY, Hargreaves BA, Vasanawala SS. Feasibility of Non-Contrast-Enhanced Cardiovascular 4D Flow MRI Using a Balanced SSFP Approach. In Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting. Honolulu, Hawai’i, USA; 2017. p. 2847.

  32. Vasanawala SS, Stormont R, Lindsay S, Grafendorfer T, Cheng JY, Pauly JM, Lustig M, Scott G, Guzman J, Taracila V, Chirayath D, Robb F. Development and Clinical Implementation of Very Light Weight and Highly Flexible AIR Technology Arrays. In Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting. Honolulu, Hawai’i, USA; 2017. p. 755.

  33. Cheng JY, Alley MT, Pauly JM, Lustig M, Vasanawala SS. Volumetric respiratory-resolved and cardiac-resolved MR flow imaging. In Proceedings of the RSNA Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 2016. p. SSA22-09.

  34. Cheng JY, Zhang T, Alley MT, Lustig M, Pauly JM, Vasanawala SS. “Ultra-high dimensional flow imaging (N-D flow).” In Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Suntec City, Singapore, 2016. p. 325.

  35. Cheng JY, Doneva M, Zhang T, Pauly JM, Vasanawala SS, Lustig M. “Non-rigid motion correction using localized PROPELLER and low-rank minimization.” In Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Suntec City, Singapore, 2016. p. 4203.

  36. Cheng JY, Zhang T, Kerr AB, Lustig M, Pauly JM, Vasanawala SS. “Contrast-enhanced 4D flow imaging with reduced fat signal.” In Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Suntec City, Singapore, 2016. p. 2712.

  37. Malave MO, Addy NO, Ingle RR, Cheng JY, Baron CA, Nishimura DG. Analysis of motion and eddy currents with 3D cones reordering for whole-heart coronary MR angiography. In Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Suntec City, Singapore, 2016. p. 1852.

  38. Cheng F, Zhang T, Cheng JY, Paul JM, Vasanawala SS. Auto-calibrating wave-CS for motion-robust accelerated MRI. In Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Suntec City, Singapore, 2016. p. 1857.

  39. Datta A, Baron CA, Ingle RR, Cheng JY, Nishimura DG. Breath-held phase-cycled cardiac CINE MRI using slow frequency modulation. In Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Suntec City, Singapore, 2016. p. 3214.

  40. Gong E, Zhang T, Cheng JY, Vasanawala SS, Pauly JM. Kernelized low-rank: improved low-rank with adaptive nonlinear kernel for dynamic MRI. In Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Suntec City, Singapore, 2016. p. 4234.

  41. Lai P, Shimakawa A, Cheng JY, Alley MT, Vasanawala SS, Brau ACS. Non-contrast cardiac 4D flow with bright blood and improved robustness using multiple thin slab acquisition and variable density radial sampling. In Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Suntec City, Singapore, 2016. p. 2709.

  42. Lai P, Cheng JY, Vasanawala SS, Brau ACS. Non-iterative motion-error regularized reconstruction for efficient respiratory gating with auto-calibrating parallel imaging. In Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Suntec City, Singapore, 2016. p. 1092.

  43. Luo J, Addy NO, Ingle RR, Baron CA, Cheng JY, Hu BS, Nishimura DG. A nonrigid-motion-correction method for coronary magnetic resonance angiography using 3D image-based navigators. In Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Suntec City, Singapore, 2016. p. 1842.

  44. Shi X, Cheng JY, Lustig M, Pauly JM, Vasanawala SS. Robust self-gated free-breathing 3D cardiac MRI using DC signals and virtual coils. In Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Suntec City, Singapore, 2016. p. 1853.

  45. Zaidi M, Cheng JY, Zhang T, Pauly JM. Rotation and translation estimation from simple 1D MR navigators. In Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Suntec City, Singapore, 2016. p. 1791.

  46. Cheng JY, Zhang T, Pauly JM, Vasanawala SS. “Feasibility of Ultra-High-Dimensional Flow Imaging for Rapid Pediatric Cardiopulmonary MRI.” In Proceedings of the 19th Annual Scientific Sessions of SCMR, Los Angeles, California, USA, 2016. 


  47. Cheng JY, Hanneman K, Zhang T, Alley MT, Lai P, Tamir JI, Uecker M, Pauly JM, Lustig M, Vasanawala SS. “Ferumoxytol-Enhanced Motion-Corrected Accelerated 4D Flow MRI as a Single Sequence Congenital Heart Disease Exam: Validation of Functional and Segmental Analysis.” In Proceedings of the 27th Annual International Conference for Magnetic Resonance Angiography, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, 2015. p. 35.

  48. Cheng JY, Alley MT, Zhang T, Lai P, Tamir JI, Uecker M, Pauly JM, Lustig M, Vasanawala SS. “Soft-gated accelerated Cartesian 4D flow imaging with intrinsic navigation.” In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2015. p. 451.

  49. Cheng JY, Hanneman K, Zhang T, Alley MT, Lai P, Tamir JI, Uecker M, Lustig M, Pauly JM, Vasanawala SS. “Impact of view ordering and soft-gating on morphologic assessment of congenital heart disease with 4D flow.” In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2015. p. 4548.

  50. Cheng JY, Zhang T, Ruangwattanapaisarn N, Alley MT, Uecker M, Pauly JM, Lustig M, Vasanawala SS. “Free-breathing pediatric MRI with nonrigid motion correction and acceleration.” In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2015. p. 32.

  51. Shi X, Cheng JY, Lustig M, Pauly JM, Vasanawala SS. “Virtual Coil Navigator: A Robust Localized Motion Estimation Approach for Free-Breathing Cardiac MRI.” In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2015. p. 811.

  52. Jou T, Cheng JY, Bowen C, Lustig M, Pauly JM. “Extended Parallel Imaging in Alternating-SSFP fMRI.” In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2015. p. 362.

  53. Lai P, Shimakawa A, Cheng JY, Alley MT, Vasanawala SS, Brau A. “Sub-8-minute cardiac four dimensional flow MRI using kat ARC and variable density signal averaging.” Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2015; 17:Q36.

  54. Luo J, Addy NO, Ingle RR, Cheng JY, Hu BS, Nishimura DG. “Autofocusing Motion Correction with 3D Image-Based Navigators for Abdominal Imaging.” In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2015. p. 586.

  55. Ong F, Zhang T, Cheng JY, Uecker M, Lustig M. “Beyond Low Rank + Sparse: Multi-Scale Low Rank Reconstruction for Dynamic Contrast Enhanced Imaging.” In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2015. p. 575.

  56. Malave MO, Addy NO, Ingle RR, Cheng JY, Nishimura DG. “3D Cones Reordering Design Methods for Whole-Heart Coronary MR Angiography.” In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2015. p. 652.

  57. Zhang T, Cheng JY, Chen Y, Pauly JM, Vasanawala S. “3D Free-Breathing Abdominal MRI Using Robust Navigator Processing with Coil Clustering.” In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2015. p. 2572.

  58. Zhang T, Yousaf U, Hsiao A, Cheng JY, Alley MT, Lustig M, Pauly JM, Vasanawala SS. “Clinical Performance of a Spatiotemporally Accelerated Motion-Corrected Pediatric 3D Free-Breathing Time-Resolved Contrast-Enhanced MR Angiography.” In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2015. p. 2678.

  59. Zhang T, Cheng JY, Calderon PD, Grafendorfer T, Scott GC, Rainey B, Giancola M, Robb FJ, Pauly JM, Hargreaves B. “Validation of a Semi-Flexible 64-Channel Receive-Only Phased Array for Pediatric Body MRI at 3T.” In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2015. p. 3185.

  60. Lai P, Shimakawa A, Cheng JY, Alley MT, Vasanawala SS, Brau A. “High-Acquisition-Efficiency Cardiac 4D Flow MRI for High-SNR Motion-Robust Imaging with Contrast Agent During Delayed Enhancement Wait Time.” In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2015. p. 4561.

  61. Lai P, Cheng JY, Vasanawala SS, Brau A. “Robust Free-Breathing Whole-Heart Cine MRI Using Multi-Slab 3D Acquisition with Isotropic Resolution and Offline Reformattability.” In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2015. p. 4480.

  62. Uecker M, Ong F, Tamir JI, Bahri D, Virtue P, Cheng JY, Zhang T, Lustig M. “Berkeley Advanced Reconstruction Toolbox.” In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2015. p. 2486.

  63. Cheng JY, Zhang T, Pauly JM, Vasanawala SS, Lustig M. “Free Breathing Dynamic Contrast Enhanced 3D MRI with Resolved Respiratory Motion.” In Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Milan, Italy, 2014. p. 0330.

  64. Cheng JY, Zhang T, Shi X, Uecker M, Alley MT, Pauly JM, Lustig M, Vasanawala SS. “Slice-Localized Soft-Gating for Non-Rigid Motion Correction in Free-Breathing 3D Cartesian MRI.” In Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Milan, Italy, 2014. p. 1611.

  65. Ingle RR, Wu HH, Addy NO, Luo J, Cheng JY, Yang PC, Hu B, Nishimura DG. “Nonrigid Autofocus Motion Correction for Coronary MR Angiography with a 3D Cones Trajectory.” In Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Milan, Italy, 2014. p. 0025.

  66. Loening AM, Ghanouni P, Cheng JY, Alley MT, Vasanawala SS. “Faster MRI Imaging of Periasnal Fistulas Through a Limited Sequence Protocol Based on High-Resolution Free-Breathing Post-Contrast Imaging, with Comparison to Standard Care.” In Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Milan, Italy, 2014. p. 2126.

  67. Zhang T, Cheng JY, Alley MT, Uecker M, Lustig M, Pauly JM, Vasanawala SS. “Fast 3D Free-Breathing Abdominal Dynamic Contrast Enhanced MRI with High Spatiotemporal Resolution.” In Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Milan, Italy, 2014. p. 0332.

  68. Zhu D, Uecker M, Cheng JY, Bi Z, Ying K, Lustig M. “Calibration for Parallel MRI Using Robust Low-Rank Matrix Completion.” In Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Milan, Italy, 2014. p. 0741.

  69. Luo J, Shin T, Zhang T, Cheng JY, Hu B, Nishimura NG. “Application of Low-Rank Matrix-Completion Reconstruction Combined with Segmentation and Parallel Imaging in Lower Extremities Perfusion Imaging.” In Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Milan, Italy, 2014. p. 1554.

  70. Cheng JY, Uecker M, Alley MT, Vasanawala SS, Pauly JM, Lustig M. “Free-breathing pediatric imaging with nonrigid motion correction and parallel imaging.” In Proceedings of the 21st Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, 2013. p. 312.

  71. Ingle RR, Wu HH, Addy NO, Cheng JY, Hu BS, Nishimura DG. “Autofocusing nonrigid respiratory motion correction for 3D cones coronary MR angiography.” In Proceedings of the 21st Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, 2013. p. 189.

  72. Cheng JY, Vasanawala SS, Lustig M, Pauly JM. “Automatic rigid-body motion correction via phase retrieval and sparsity constraints.” In Proceedings of the 21st Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, 2013. p. 2577.

  73. Cheng JY, Vasanawala SS, Lustig M, Pauly JM. “Automatic rigid-body motion correction via phase retrieval and sparsity constraints.” In Proceedings of the CBIS Annual Symposium, Stanford, California, USA, 2013.

  74. Cheng JY, Zhang T, Alley MT, Lustig M, Vasanawala SS, Pauly JM. “Variable-density radial view-ordering and sampling for time-optimized 3D Cartesian imaging.” In Proceedings of the ISMRM Workshop on Data Sampling and Image Reconstruction, Sedona, Arizona, USA, 2013.

  75. Addy NO, Cheng JY, Ingle RR, Nishimura DG. “High-resolution undersampled 3D cones imaging with L1-ESPIRiT.” In Proceedings of the ISMRM Workshop on Data Sampling and Image Reconstruction, Sedona, Arizona, USA, 2013.

  76. Cheng JY, Alley MT, Cunningham CH, Vasanawala SS, Pauly JM, Lustig M. “Nonrigid motion correction in 3D using autofocusing with localized linear translations.” In Proceedings of the 20th Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 2012. p. 2462.

  77. Cheng JY, Santos JM, Pauly JM. “Fast field inhomogeneity and concomitant gradient field correction in spiral cardiac imaging.” In Proceedings of the 18th Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Stockholm, Sweden, 2010. p. 3108.

  78. Cheng JY, Santos JM, John M. Pauly. “Real-time 3D visualization of the heart.” In Proceedings of the 18th Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Stockholm, Sweden, 2010. p. 3554.

  79. Cheng JY, Santos JM, Pauly JM. “Fast concomitant gradient field correction for spiral scans.” In Proceedings of the 17th Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 2009. p. 2844.

  80. Beatty PJ, Cheng JY, Shankaranarayanan S, Madhuranthakam A, Yu H, Bayram E, Chang S, Brittain J. “Feasibility of direct virtual coil (DVC) reconstruction for 3D imaging.” In Proceedings of the 17th Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 2009. p. 2727.

  81. Cheng JY, Gagoski BA, Bolar DS, Triantafyllou C, Hamm M, Krueger G, Adalsteinsson E. “Gradient linear system modeling using gradient characterization.” In Proceedings of the 16th Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2008. p. 1155.

Thesis

  1. Cheng JY. “Image artifact reduction for fast magnetic resonance imaging”. PhD Thesis. Stanford University. August 2013.

  2. Cheng JY. “Gradient characterization in magnetic resonance imaging”. MEng Thesis. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. August 2007.

Industry Experience

  • Intern, General Electric Healthcare, Menlo Park, CA, Summer 2008.

  • Intern, Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA, Summer 2006.

  • Intern, Qualcomm, Inc., Campbell, CA, Summer 2005.

  • Undergraduate Research, MIT Media Lab: Tangible Media Group, Cambridge, MA, Summer 2004.

  • Intern, Canon Development America, Inc., Irvine, CA, Summer 2003.

Miscellaneous

Leadership

  • Director, Eight Count (Dance Team), Santa Clara, 2008-2012.

  • Vice-President, Phi Kappa Theta Fraternity, MIT, 2004-2005.

  • Community Service Chair, Phi Kappa Theta Fraternity, MIT, 2003-2004.

Professional Societies