Hao Peng, Ph.D. - Faculty Profile

Biography

Hao Peng, Ph.D., Professor, joined UTSW from the Department of Medical Physics at Wuhan University in China, where he served as the Director of the Medical Physics Program. Dr. Peng earned both his B.S. and M.S. at Wuhan University, followed by his Ph.D. at the University of Western Ontario (Canada). He did his postdoc training in the Department of Radiology at Stanford University. Before joining UTSW, he held several visiting professorships including Stanford, McMaster University (Canada), and Hokkaido University (Japan).

Research Interest

Adaptive proton therapy
Artificial intelligence
FLASH
PET imaging
PULSAR

Publications

Gradient-Based Radiomics for Outcome Prediction and Decision-Making in PULSAR: A Preliminary Study: Zhang H, Liu J, Dohopolski M, Wardak Z, Timmerman R, Peng H International Journal of Particle Therapy 2025 Mar 15
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
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
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
Exploratory Evaluation of Personalized Ultrafractionated Stereotactic Adaptive Radiation Therapy (PULSAR) With Central Nervous System-Active Drugs in Brain Metastases Treatment: Dohopolski M, Schmitt LG, Anand S, Zhang H, Stojadinovic S, Youssef M, Shaikh N, Patel T, Patel A, Barnett S, Lee DS, Ahn C, Lee MJ, Timmerman R, Peng H, Cai X, Dan T, Wardak Z International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics 2024
Rethinking the potential role of dose painting in personalized ultra-fractionated stereotactic adaptive radiotherapy: Peng H, Deng J, Jiang S, Timmerman R Frontiers in Oncology 2024 14
Understanding the PULSAR effect in combined radiotherapy and immunotherapy using transformer-based attention mechanisms: Peng H, Moore C, Saha D, Jiang S, Timmerman R Frontiers in Oncology 2024 14
An AI-based approach for modeling the synergy between radiotherapy and immunotherapy: Peng H, Moore C, Zhang Y, Saha D, Jiang S, Timmerman R Scientific reports 2024 14
Recent Advancements of Artificial Intelligence in Particle Therapy: Peng H, Wu C, Nguyen D, Schuemann J, Mairani A, Pu Y, Jiang S IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences 2023 Mar 7 213-224
SWFT-Net: a deep learning framework for efficient fine-tuning spot weights towards adaptive proton therapy: Zhang G, Zhou L, Han Z, Zhao W, Peng H Physics in medicine and biology 2022 Dec 67