CV

Education

Ph.D. in Imaging and Interventional Radiology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2020
M.Sc. in Computer Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2014
B.S.E. in Instrument Science & Technology, School of Electronics, Information and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2013

Apr 2025 – Present: Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- The University of Hong Kong, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Hong Kong, China
- Advisor: Professor Ed Xuekui WU
May 2024 – Mar 2025: Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Radiology, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Boston, MA, USA
- Advisor: Professor Fang LIU
Nov 2020 – Mar 2024: Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Imaging and Interventional Radiology, Hong Kong, China
- Advisor: Professor Weitian CHEN
Aug 2014 – Jul 2016: Research Assistant
- The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Electronic Engineering, Hong Kong, China
- Advisor: Professor Xiaogang WANG

Health and Medical Research Fund 2023 – 2025
- PI: Sherry Xue YANG, Ph.D.
- Title: Developing and evaluating a Chatbot intervention to reduce common digital addictions among adolescents
- Goals: To develop a rule-based and AI-facilitated chatbot platform to increase motivation and support behavior change to reduce internet gaming disorder, social media addiction, and sedentary lifestyle risk among adolescents in Hong Kong.
- Role: Co-Investigator and AI Technical Lead

Postdoctoral Talent under Research Talent Hub for ITF projects (RTH-ITF), 2021–2024
Distinguished Academic Performance Scholarship of CUHK, 2013
EMBA Scholarship of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2010

Top-2, 7th Chinese Conference on Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision (PRCV 2024), Apr 2024
Top-3, Cardiac MRI Reconstruction Challenge: Accelerated Cine Reconstruction, STACOM Workshop, MICCAI 2023, Oct 2023
Top-3, Cardiac MRI Reconstruction Challenge: Accelerated T1/T2 Mapping, STACOM Workshop, MICCAI 2023, Oct 2023
Top-3, MICCAI 2017 LiTS Challenge on liver segmentation from contrast-enhanced abdominal CT, Sep 2017
Top-1, ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge 2016 on object detection, Sep 2016

ZHANG, Liping; CHEN, Weitian. System and method for consistency-aware learnable multi-prior reconstruction for magnetic resonance imaging. U.S. Patent No. 12,535,547, issued Jan. 27, 2026.
CHU, Winnie; ZHANG, Liping; SHI, Lin; CHENG Jack C.Y. Systems and Methods for Spinal Curvature Assessment. U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 62/925,388, 2019.

Editorial Roles
- Frontiers Topic Editor: AI-Enabled Breakthroughs in Computational Imaging and Computer Vision
- Associate Editor, Medical Physics
Reviewer for Journals and Conferences
- IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI)
- IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (JBHI)
- IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM)
- IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering (IEEE-JOE)
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
- Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery (QIMS)
- Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI)
- International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM)