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Xiaochuan Pan received his B. S. in Physics from Beijing University in 1982, his M. S. in Physics from Institute of Physics and Graduate School of Academia Sinica in 1985, his M. S. and Ph. D. in Physics from The University of Chicago in 1988 and in 1991, respectively. He is currently a full Professor with tenure in the Department of Radiology, Department of Radiation and Cellular Oncology, the College, the Committee on Medical Physics, and the Cancer Research Center at The University of Chicago. His research interest centers on imaging science and its biomedical applications. Dr. Pan has authored and co-authored more than 300 journal and proceeding papers. He has received numerous awards for his contributions to medical imaging, and is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Optical Society of America (OSA), and the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). Dr. Pan has served, and is serving, as a charter member of study sections and/or grant reviewer for National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Science Foundation (NSF), National Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERCC), and numerous other funding agencies and foundations. He is an Associate Editor for a number of journals in the field, including IEEE Transaction on Medical Imaging, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Medical Physics, and Journal of Cardiovascular CT. Also, he has served, and is serving, as conference chair, theme chair, session chair, and technical or scientific committee member for international conferences such as Conferences of IEEE Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Medical Imaging, Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), and American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM). Dr. Pan is mentoring, and has mentored, a number of students and post-doctoral fellows, many of whom have received awards for their accomplishments. Most of Dr. Pan’s past graduate students and post-doctoral fellows have become faculty members in leading universities, medical schools, and industrial R&D centers.