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Steve Jiang, Ph.D.

Steve Jiang, Ph.D.

Titles and Appointments

Vice Chair, Digital Health & Ai; Division Chief, Medical Physics & Engineering

Professor

Endowed Title
Barbara Crittenden Professorship in Cancer Research
School
Medical School
Department
Radiation Oncology
Graduate Programs
Biomedical Engineering
  • Biography
  • Education
    Undergraduate
    Sichuan University (1990), Theoretical Physics
    Graduate School
    Sichuan University (1993), Physics
    Graduate School
    Medical College of Ohio-Toledo (1998), Medical Physics
  • Research Interest
    • Artificial intelligence in medicine
    • GPU and cloud based automated treatment planning
    • On-line re-planning for adaptive radiotherapy
  • Publications
    Contour uncertainty assessment for MD-omitted daily adaptive online head and neck radiotherapy
    Liao CY, Maniscalco AM, Zhao H, Bai T, Choi B, Moon D, Yang D, Wang J, Zhong X, Nguyen D, Godley A, Jiang SB, Sher D, Lin M Radiotherapy and Oncology 2025 Apr 205
    Deep unsupervised clustering for prostate auto-segmentation with and without hydrogel spacer
    Zhao H, Wang B, Dohopolski M, Bai T, Jiang SB, Nguyen D Machine Learning: Science and Technology 2025 Mar 6
    Deep learning dose prediction to approach Erasmus-iCycle dosimetric plan quality within seconds for instantaneous treatment planning
    van Genderingen J, Nguyen D, Knuth F, Nomer HA, Incrocci L, Sharfo AW, Zolnay A, Oelfke U, Jiang S, Rossi L, Heijmen BJ, Breedveld S Radiotherapy and Oncology 2025 Feb 203
    PULSAR Effect: Revealing potential synergies in combined radiation therapy and immunotherapy via differential equations
    Rouf S, Moore C, Saha D, Nguyen D, Bleile ML, Timmerman R, Peng H, Jiang S Journal of Theoretical Biology 2025 Jan 596
    Quality assurance for online adaptive radiotherapy: a secondary dose verification model with geometry-encoded U-Net
    Yan S, Maniscalco A, Wang B, Nguyen D, Jiang S, Shen C Machine Learning: Science and Technology 2024 Dec 5
    Deep learning prediction of scenario doses for direct plan robustness evaluations in IMPT for head-and-neck
    Nomer HA, Knuth F, van Genderingen J, Nguyen D, Sattler M, Zolnay A, Oelfke U, Jiang S, Rossi L, Heijmen BJ, Breedveld S Physics in medicine and biology 2024 Nov 69
    Multiomics-Based Outcome Prediction in Personalized Ultra-Fractionated Stereotactic Adaptive Radiotherapy (PULSAR)
    Zhang H, Dohopolski M, Stojadinovic S, Schmitt LG, Anand S, Kim H, Pompos A, Godley A, Jiang S, Dan T, Wardak Z, Timmerman R, Peng H Cancers 2024 Oct 16
    Can input reconstruction be used to directly estimate uncertainty of a dose prediction U-Net model?
    Huet-Dastarac M, Nguyen D, Longton E, Jiang S, Lee J, Montero AB Medical physics 2024 Oct 51 7369-7377
    Fast Monte Carlo dose calculation in proton therapy
    Holmes J, Feng H, Zhang L, Fix MK, Jiang SB, Liu W Physics in medicine and biology 2024 Sep 69
    A Novel Design of Soft Corrugated Actuator for Creating Precise Head and Neck Positioning System
    Erel V, Suresh S, Singh I, Palomino A, Tafannum F, Hosseini Nami S, Jiang S, Peng H, Gans N, Wijesundara MB Actuators 2024 Sep 13
  • Books

    Featured 

    Graphics Processing Unit-Based High Performance Computing in Radiation Therapy

    Xun Jia and Steve Jiang (Ed.) (2015). Boca Raton, London, New York, CRC Press

  • Honors & Awards
    • Elected Fellow, American Institute for Medical & Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows, Class of 2022
      (2022)
    • Elected Fellow, American Association of Physicists in Medicine
      (2012)
    • Regional Health Care Innovation Challenge Awards, Southern California Healthcare Technology Acceleration Program
      (2011)
    • Finalist for the Health Care Champion Award in Health Care Innovation & Research, San Diego Business Journal
      (2010)
    • Fellow, The Institute of Physics, England
      (2004)
    • Post-doctoral Traineeship Award, US Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program
      (2000)
    • Resident Clinical/Basic Science Research Award, The American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
      (2000)