Rate My Professor Baowei Fei

Baowei Fei is a Professor of Bioengineering holding the Cecil H. and Ida Green Chair in Systems Biology Science in the Medicine field at The University of Texas at Dallas, where he also directs the Center for Imaging and Surgical Innovation. He serves concurrently as Professor of Radiology at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Fei earned his PhD in Systems Engineering and MS in Computing and Information Science from Case Western Reserve University, followed by postdoctoral training supported by a U.S. Department of Defense award. His academic career progressed from Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology at Case Western Reserve University (2005–2008) to Assistant Professor in the joint Emory University-Georgia Institute of Technology Biomedical Engineering program (2009–2013), and then Associate Professor with tenure in Radiology and Imaging Sciences at Emory University (2013–2018), where he directed the Precision Imaging Program and Quantitative Bioimaging Laboratory. Recruited to Dallas in 2018, he has elevated UT Dallas's capabilities in translational imaging.

Fei's research centers on biomedical imaging and computing, artificial intelligence and machine learning for quantitative imaging, image-guided interventions such as surgery, biopsy, and drug delivery, and multimodality techniques including hyperspectral, MRI, PET, CT, and ultrasound imaging. His contributions include developing hyperspectral imaging for head and neck cancer detection in over 200 patients—the world's first such study—and leading the NIH-funded first-in-human clinical trial of PET/ultrasound fusion targeted biopsy, enhancing prostate cancer detection. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers, including the 2020 Editor’s Choice article “Deep learning-based framework for in vivo identification of glioblastoma tumor using hyperspectral images of human brain” in Sensors. Fei serves as Associate Editor of Medical Physics, editorial board member for Journal of Biomedical Optics and four other journals, and has chaired multiple NIH study sections and the SPIE Medical Imaging conference (2017–2020). His honors include Fellowships from AIMBE and SPIE (2019), Distinguished Investigator Award (2013), Young Investigator Award (2009), UT Dallas Faculty Research Award (2022), and principal investigator roles on over 20 grants from NIH, DOD, CPRIT, and others, including active NIH R01 and CPRIT awards, driving clinical translation and impacting cancer care.