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Lab Members


Principal Investigator
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Linda Azab
Research Associate II

Linda Azab graduated from George Mason University with a bachelor of science in biomedical engineering. Throughout her senior year at Mason, she developed an interest in the magnetic resonance imaging research field.

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Zengtian Deng
Graduate Student

Zengtian Deng received his bachelor's degree in biomedical engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2018 and his master's degree in biomedical engineering at Duke University in 2020. He is currently a PhD student in bioengineering at UCLA. His current research interest focuses on pancreatic cancer analysis with deep learning.

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Hsu-Lei Lee, PhD
MR Physicist

Hsu-Lei Lee, PhD, received her doctorate in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California. She has been working on MRI pulse sequence design and image analysis for cardiovascular imaging, resting-state functional MRI and rodent brain imaging. Lee is currently an MR physicist at the Cedars-Sinai Biomedical Imaging Research Institute, where she focuses on technical development for human and small animal MRI. 

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Touseef Ahmad Qureshi, PhD
Research Scientist
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Milos Vukadinovic
Graduate Student

Milos Vukadinovic received his bachelor's degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science at American University in Bulgaria in 2022. He is currently a PhD student in bioengineering at UCLA. His current research focuses on AI for echocardiography, self-supervised learning and video generation methods.

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Yibin Xie, PhD
Research Scientist

Yibin Xie, PhD, received his bachelor's degree from Zhejiang University, master's degree from Johns Hopkins University and doctorate from the UCLA, all in biomedical engineering. Xie is currently a project scientist at Cedars-Sinai with research interests in vessel wall imaging, coronary artery imaging and diffusion weighted imaging. His current research in the Li Laboratory includes vascular imaging and hyperpolarized MRI.

Contact the Li Lab

Cedars-Sinai Biomedical Imaging Research Institute
8700 Beverly Blvd.
Pacific Theaters 800
Los Angeles, CA 90048