Top Award Winner Yanhui Liang (L) poses next to her poster with fellow PhD student Xin Chen (Center) and faculty advisor Dr. Fusheng Wang (R) at SIGSPATIAL GIS 2016 in San Francisco.
Yanhui Liang, BMI’s first PhD Student, wins Best Poster Award at SIGSPATIAL GIS 2016
ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) SIGSPATIAL addresses issues related to the acquisition, management, and processing of spatially-related information with a focus on algorithmic, geometric, and visual considerations.
Ms. Liang’s poster, “Scalable 3D Spatial Queries for Analytical Pathology Imaging with MapReduce”, can be viewed in the “Presentations” tab of the BMI website. She has been working with faculty mentor Fusheng Wang from the time they were both at Emory University. When Dr. Wang accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, with a joint appointment in Computer Science at Stony Brook, Ms. Liang was one of three Emory students to join him here.
Ms. Liang is the first PhD student in BMI’s new graduate program, and through her work she is setting a high bar for all who will follow. Her research focus is 3D Pathology Imaging and Spatial Databases, and she is a frequent presenter at major conferences in the field.
The Biomedical Informatics Department at Stony Brook was jointly founded by The School of Medicine and the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences and came into being with the hire of Cherith Professor and Founding Chair Joel H. Saltz in the Fall of 2013. The Graduate Program in BMI was approved by New York State in mid-2016. We are gearing up for the Fall 2018 welcome to new students in our PhD, MS and Advanced Graduate Certificate programs. For more information about the BMI Graduate Programs, see our website or email us at BMIGradEd@Stonybrookmedicine.edu