Ying Zhang, Ph.D.

Ying Zhang, Ph.D., DABR, is an Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology at UT Southwestern Medical Center. She is part of the Department of Radiation Oncology’s Division of Medical Physics & Engineering.

Before joining UT Southwestern, Dr. Zhang worked as an Assistant Professor and therapeutic medical physicist at Medical College of Wisconsin’s Department of Radiation Oncology. She is board certified in therapeutic medical physics by the American Board of Radiology.

Dr. Zhang earned her Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Tianjin University, China. During her Ph.D. studies, she attended Yale University’s Therapeutic Radiology Department as a Ph.D. exchange student. Following her doctoral studies, Dr. Zhang completed her medical physics postdoctoral fellow and residency training at Medical College of Wisconsin.

Dr. Zhang’s research focuses on using artificial intelligence techniques to accelerate the process of MRI-guided adaptive radiotherapy. Her work includes developing automatic contour quality management methods, including a self-guided interactive contouring tool, automatic contour QA and correction methods, and deep learning-based fast daily adaptive deliverable plan prediction. 

Her research efforts have resulted in the publication of numerous peer-reviewed papers and have been presented at several national conferences, where she was recognized with multiple prestigious awards.

• Artificial intelligence in radiation therapy
• Real-time and online adaptive radiotherapy
• Using AI techniques to accelerate the process of MRI-guided adaptive radiotherapy (MRgART)

• Best of Physics Abstract
  Co-author, ASTRO (2023)
• Basic Translational Science Award, Clinical
  First author, ASTRO (2021)
• Basic Translational Science Award, Physics
  Co-author, ASTRO (2021)
• Best of Physics Abstract
  First author, ASTRO (2019)
• Travel Award, Physics Category
  First author, ASTRO (2018)

• American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)
• American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO)