Hsu-Lei Lee Ph.D. Candidate Signal & Image Processing Institute Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering University of Southern California

Contact hsulee!@!usc.edu 3740 McClintock Ave., EEB 412, Los Angeles, CA 90089 TEL: (213) 740-4652 My Lab. MREL @ USC My Advisor Prof. Krishna S. Nayak Look at Me Thoroughly GIF (942KB) Home Last Updated: May 22, 2008

Education August 2004 - present Department of Electrical Engineering UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, Los Angeles, CA, USA June 2004 Master of Science in Electrical/Biomedical Engineering NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY, Taipei, Taiwan June 2002 Bachelor of Science in Physics (with a minor in Chinese Literature) NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY, Taipei, Taiwan Research Activities August 2004 - present Magnetic Resonance Engineering Lab. UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, Los Angeles, CA, USA  。  Wideband steady-state free precession cardiac imaging  。  MR pulse sequence design and programming  。  Optimized single-shot EPI trajectory design September 2002 - June 2004 Interdisciplinary MRI/MRS Lab NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY, Taipei, Taiwan  。  High-Tc superconducting RF Coil Design on 3T MR system  。  Parallel imaging reconstruction  。  Diffusion spectrum imaging & Q-ball imaging data analysis January 2001 - July 2002 Condensed Phases Laser Spectroscopy Lab. Institute of Atomic and Molecular Science, ACADEMIA SINICA, Taipei, Taiwan  。  National Science Council Summer Research Program for Undergrads:        "A Vibration Spectrum Study of Urocanic Acid Molecular Structure and Its          Photochemistry Reactions", Supervised by Dr. Ta-Chau Chang (2001)  。  Dye laser and OPO laser system  。  CARS and Infrared spectroscopy Publications - Journal 。 Hsu-Lei Lee, Krishna S. Nayak, Stabilization of Alternating TR Steady State Free Precession Sequences, J. Magn. Reson., In press 。 Krishna S. Nayak, Hsu-Lei Lee, Brian A. Hargeaves, Bob S. Hu, Wideband SSFP: Alternating Repetition Time Balanced Steady State Free Precession with Increased Band Spacing, Magn. Reson. Med. 58:931-938, 2007 。 H.-L. Lee, I.-T.Lin, J.-H.Chen, H.-E.Horng, H.-C.Yang, High-TC Superconducting Receiving Coils for Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging, IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercon., V.15(2):1326-1329, 2005 。 K.-H.Huang, J.-Y.Wu, W.-S.Wu, C.-C.Chang, H.-L. Lee, T.-C.Chang, Laser-Induced Hole Filling by Energy Transfer between Chromophores Bound to DNA, J. of Luminescence, V.107(1-4):213-219, 2004 - Conference Presentations 。 H.-L. Lee, A. Shankaranarayanan , G. M. Pohost, K. S. Nayak, Improved Coronary MRA Using Wideband SSFP at 3 Tesla with Sub-millimeter Resolution, 16th Meeting of ISMRM, Toronto, ON, May 2006, p.316 。 H.-L. Lee, K. S. Nayak, A Simplified Model for Stabilizing Alternating TR SSFP sequences, Proc. 16th Meeting of ISMRM, Toronto, ON, May 2006, p.1358 。 K. Sung, H.-L. Lee, H. H. Hu, K. S. Nayak, Magnetization Transfer Effects in Cardiac Balanced SSFP Imaging at 3T, 16th Meeting of ISMRM, Toronto, ON, May 2006 。 H.-L. Lee, A. Shankaranarayanan , G. M. Pohost, K. S. Nayak, High-Resolution 3D Free-Breathing Coronary MR Angiography Using Wideband SSFP at 3 Tesla, SCMR Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, Feb. 2008 。 H.-L. Lee, A. Shankaranarayanan , G. M. Pohost, K. S. Nayak, High-Resolution 3D Breath-hold Coronary Artery Imaging at 3T using Wideband SSFP, Proc. 15th Meeting of ISMRM, Berlin, May 2007, p.3876 。 H.-L. Lee, G. M. Pohost, K. S. Nayak, Gated and Real-time Wideband SSFP cardiac imaging at 3T, Proc. 14th Meeting of ISMRM, Seattle, Washington, May 2006 。 H.-L. Lee, G. Gold, K. S. Nayak, High-Resolution Cartilage Imaging with Wideband SSFP, Proc. 14th Meeting of ISMRM, Seattle, Washington, May 2006 。 H.-L. Lee, I.-T. Lin, L.-W. Kuo, H.-C. Yang, J.-H. Chen, High-Temperature Superconducting RF Coils for 3T MRI, Proc. 13th Meeting of ISMRM, Miami, Florida, May 2005 。 H.-L. Lee, C.-P.Lin, W.-Y.I.Tseng, L.-W.Kuo, J.-C.Weng, V.J.Wedeen, T.G.Reese, J.-H.Chen, Spherical Encoding Method in Clinical Machine, Proc.12th Meeting of ISMRM, Kyoto, Japan, May 2004 Honors 2008 WiSE Merit Fellowship, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California 2004 - 2006 Student Stipend Recipient International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 2004 - 2006 Dean's Fellowship, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California 2003 - 2004 Fellowship of National Taiwan University 1998 - 2002 Dr. Paul Ching-Wu Chu Scholarship for Physics major undergrads Teaching Experience - at University of Southern California 。 Teaching Assistant : EE364 “Introduction to Probability and Statistics for Electrical Engineering” Instructor: Dr. Jerry Mendel (Spring 2006) 。 Teaching Assistant : EE591 “Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Reconstruction” Instructor: Dr. Krishna Nayak (Fall 2005) - at National Taiwan University 。 Teaching Assistant : EE “Special Topics on Parapsychology” Instructor: Dr. Si-Chen Lee (Spring 2004) 。 Teaching Assistant : EE “Electrical Engineering Fundamentals” Instructor: Dr. Jyh-Horng Chen (Fall 2003)