Professor Ge Wang Appointed as the Next Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Dear Colleagues,

As the Chair of the IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging Steering Board, I am delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Ge Wang as the next Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, effective January 1, 2025. This appointment follows a highly competitive international search process and has been endorsed by the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) Executive Committee.

The search was conducted by a distinguished committee comprising representatives from all four IEEE Societies that sponsor our journal. Following a rigorous evaluation process and panel interviews with shortlisted candidates, Professor Wang emerged as the outstanding choice, impressing the committee with his exceptional scientific standing and compelling vision for the journal's future.

Professor Wang, a Lifetime IEEE Fellow with extensive editorial experience, brings a unique combination of clinical and engineering expertise to this role. His vision emphasises maintaining the journal's excellence in traditional medical imaging while embracing innovative developments in artificial intelligence. The search committee was particularly impressed by his commitment to fostering collaboration across all participating societies and his dedication to nurturing a vibrant, engaged community of Associate Editors and Reviewers.

As we look forward to this new chapter, I would like to express our deepest gratitude to Professor Leslie Ying, our current Editor-in-Chief, and Professor Rutao Yao, Managing Editor, for their outstanding leadership and dedicated service to the journal during their 2020-2024 tenure. Their unwavering commitment has been instrumental in maintaining the journal's position as a leading publication in medical imaging.

Professor Wang will begin transitioning into his new role during November and December 2024, working closely with Professors Ying and Yao to ensure a smooth handover. We are confident that under his leadership, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging will continue to thrive and evolve, serving our community with distinction.

Please join me in congratulating Professor Wang on his appointment and wishing him every success in this important role.

Best regards,

Professor Alejandro Frangi, PhD, FREng, Fellow IEEE
Chair, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging Steering Board
Chair, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging Editor-in-Chief Search Committee

About Prof Ge Wang, Clark & Crossan Endowed Chair Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

Prof Ge Wang (Fellow, IEEE, SPIE, AAPM, OSA, AIMBE, AAAS, and NAI) holds MS in remote sensing from Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University at Buffalo, USA. He is currently the Clark & Crossan Endowed Chair Professor and Director of the Biomedical Imaging Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA. He published the first paper on cone-beam spiral CT in 1991, and subsequently authored numerous papers on theories, methods, and applications in this pivotal CT area. With his collaborators, he developed interior tomography theory and methods to solve the long-standing “interior problem” for high-fidelity local image reconstruction. He pioneered bioluminescence tomography as a new molecular imaging modality. He published the first perspective on AI-based tomographic imaging in 2016 and wrote a series of papers on this theme in Nature Machine Intelligence, Nature Communications, Patterns, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI), Medical Image Analysis, and other journals, as well as the first dedicated textbook on deep tomographic imaging. His accomplishments have been featured in Nature, Science, PNAS, and major media outlets. He has published over 700 journal papers and holds more than 170 issued or pending patents. He is the Lead Guest Editor of six special issues for IEEE TMI and the Editor of the IOP Book Series on AI in Biomedicine. He chaired major imaging conferences including IEEE ISBI, Fully3D, AAAS Symposia, SPIE CT conferences, and delivered numerous seminars, keynote and plenary speeches including the 2021 X-ray Track Plenary Talk for SPIE Optics and Photonics. His recent awards include the 2021 IEEE EMBS Career Achievement Award, 2022 SPIE Meinel Technology Award, 2022 Sigma Xi Chubb Award for Innovation, 2023 RPI Wiley Distinguished Faculty Award, 2023 IEEE R1 Outstanding Teaching Award, 2023 IEEE NPSS/NMISC Hoffman Medical Imaging Scientist Award, and 2024 IEEE TRPMS Best Paper Award.

Professor Ge Wang