Ge Wang, the Clark-Crossan Chaired Professor and director of the Biomedical Imaging Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), has been appointed as the editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging journal. With nearly 3,000 submissions per year, it is the flagship journal in the tomographic medical imaging field and among the most highly cited of all biomedical engineering journals. Wang’s initial term is for three years and is renewable for a second term.

Wang pioneered the cone-beam spiral computed tomography (CT) method in the early 1990s. There are more than 300 million CT scans yearly worldwide, with a majority in this scan mode. His leadership in advancing deep tomographic imaging began with a landmark perspective paper in 2016, followed by many papers and patents. He is also interested in AI-based teaching innovation and bibliometric research.

He is a fellow of IEEE, SPIE, AAPM, OSA, AIMBE, AAAS, and NAI, and received the RPI Wiley Distinguished Faculty Award, IEEE R1 Outstanding Teaching Award, IEEE EMBS Career Achievement Award, SPIE Meinel Technology Award, Sigma Xi Chubb Award for Innovation, and IEEE NPSS Hoffman Medical Imaging Scientist Award, among other distinctions.

The Biomedical Imaging Center at RPI is a transdisciplinary team driving innovation in imaging science and analytics. The center's mission is to define and advance frontiers in biomedical imaging, enable and improve preclinical and clinical applications, and train and mentor future imaging professionals.