Biography

I am Yuyang Ren (任宇扬 in Chinese), a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at ShanghaiTech University in Shanghai, China, where I am advised by Prof. Peng Hu.

Research Interests

My research interests span phase contrast MRI, with a particular emphasis on 4D flow MRI. I work on problems across the full 4D flow MRI pipeline, including sequence design, reconstruction, post-processing and quantification.

Broadly, I am interested in developing methods that make 4D flow MRI faster, more accurate, and more clinically practical.

Education

• ShanghaiTech University, 2022 - Present
  Ph.D. in Computer Science
  Advisor: Prof. Peng Hu
• Shanghai University, 2018 - 2022
  B.S. in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics

Academic Service

• Reviewer, Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (JCMR)
• Reviewer, PLOS Digital Health
• Reviewer, International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI)

Honors and Awards

• 2026 — Magna Cum Laude Award, ISMRM & ISMRT Annual Meeting. Oral presentation: PUDIP-Flow: An Unsupervised and Segmentation-Free Phase Unwrapping Method for Aortic and Cerebrovascular 4D Flow MRI.
• 2026 — Magna Cum Laude Award, ISMRM & ISMRT Annual Meeting. Oral presentation: A Fully Automated Pipeline for Multi-Region 4D Flow MRI Analysis.
• 2025 — Magna Cum Laude Award, ISMRM & ISMRT Annual Meeting. Digital poster: Comparison of reconstruction methods of highly accelerated 3D dynamic cardiovascular MRI using the 4D XCAT phantom.
• 2022 — Third Place, Middle School Information Layout File Classification Challenge.
• 2021 — Mathematical Contest in Modeling: Honorable Mention.
• 2019 — Shanghai University First-Class Academic Scholarship.
• 2019 — Higher Education Press Cup China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling, National Second Prize.