Dr. Jim Ji

Dr. Jim Ji is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Texas A&M University at Qatar. Ji’s research interests include high-speed imaging in MRI, biomedical image processing and their applications in cancer and neural applications.
After finishing his Ph.D., Dr. Ji joined Texas A&M as an assistant professor in 2013, and joined Texas A&M at Qatar in January 2017. Dr. Ji’s recent work is focused on novel MRI methods for cancer interventions, MRI with large arrays and compressive sensing, and bigdata and AI in imaging.

Dr. Ji has received several awards for his work, including the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the U.S. National Science Foundation. He serves regularly as an ad-hoc member on NIH and NSF grant review panels, and is editor or associate editor of several journals. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Dr. Ji received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Tsinghua University in China and his Ph.D. degree from University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC), all in electrical engineering.