Curriculum Vitae

First name: Xiaobo Last name: Qu Assignment: Assistant Professor Affiliations: Department of Electronic Science, Xiamen University, P. R. China Reasearch Center of Magnetic Resonance and Medical Imaging, Xiamen University, P. R. China Email: quxiaobo [(AT)] xmu.edu.cn; quxiaobo2009[(AT)] gmail.com Address: P. O. Box 979, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, P.R.China. Postal code: 361005 Homepage: http://www.quxiaobo.org

EDUCATION
Xiamen University PhD Candidate in Communication Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Visiting scholar at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Xiamen University Graduate Student in Signal and Information Processing Xiamen University B.S. in Communication Engineering 09/2008-12/2011 10/2009-10/2011 09/2006-07/2008 09/2002-07/2006

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Principal Investigator Project: Sampling and image reconstruction in fast MRI with adaptive sparsity constraints Research Assistant Project: MRSI denoising and MRI reconstruction with prior information Supervisor: Prof. Zhi-pei Liang Research Assistant (Student Group Leader) Project: Undersampling and sparse reconstruction for MRI and MRS Supervisor: Prof. Zhong Chen Research Assistant (Student Group Leader) Project: Image fusion based on wavelet and beamlet Supervisor: Prof. Jingwen Yan 02/2012-current 01/2010-10/2011

03/2008-12/2011

10/2005-02/2008

HONORS/SCHOLARSHIP (Selected)

Second Prize National Scholarship, Ministry of Education, China 10/2004 IBM Distinguished Chinese Student Scholarship, China Scholarship Council 11/2008 Hewlett-Packard Distinguished Chinese Student Scholarship, China Scholarship Council 10/2006 Educational Stipend for the 20th Scientific Meeting of International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 02/2011 th Third Prize Award, 4 National Postgraduates Mathematical Contests in Modeling of China 12/2007

Top Ten Students on Academic Research, Xiamen University Hua Wei Scholarship, Xiamen University Second Prize Entrance Scholarship for PhD candidates, Xiamen University First Prize of China Merchants Bank Scholarship Award, Xiamen University National Second Prize Award, Mathematical Contest in Modeling of China Excellent student in the academic years of 2002-2003,2003-2004 and 2005-2006 Outstanding Graduates Award, Xiamen University Innovation Scholarship Award, Xiamen University Huaying Outstanding Scholarship Award, Xiamen University First Prize Scholarship in the academic year of 2004-2005, Xiamen University

05/2008 04/2010 09/2008-09/2009 05/2009 11/2005 07/2006 10/2005 10/2005 10/2005

PUBLICATIONS
Journal papers 1. Ying Chen, Jing Li, Xiaobo Qu, Lin Chen, Congbo Cai, Shuhui Cai, Jianhui Zhong, Zhong Chen. Partial Fourier transform reconstruction for single-shot MRI with linear frequency-swept excitation, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, doi: 10.1002/mrm.24366, 2012. 2. Xiaobo Qu, Di Guo, Bende Ning, Yingkun Hou, Yulan Lin, Shuhui Cai, Zhong Chen. Undersampled MRI reconstruction with patch-based directional wavelets, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, doi:10.1016/j.mri.2012.02.019, 2012. 3. Di Guo, Zicheng Liu, Xiaobo Qu, Lianfen Huang, Yan Yao, Ming-Ting Sun. Sparsity-based online missing data recovery using overcomplete dictionary, IEEE Sensors Journal, 12(7):2485-2495, 2012. 4. Di Guo, Xiaobo Qu, Lianfen Huang, Yan Yao, Optimized local superposition in wireless sensor networks with t-average-mutual-coherence, Progress in Electromagnetic Research, 122:389-411, 2012. 5. Di Guo, Xiaobo Qu, Lianfen Huang, Yan Yao. Sparsity-based spatial interpolation in wireless sensor networks. Sensors. 11(3):2385-2407, 2011. 6. Changwei Hu, Xiaobo Qu, Di Guo, Lijun Bao, Zhong Chen. Wavelet-based edge correlation incorporated iterative reconstruction for undersampled MRI, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 29(7):907-915, 2011. 7. Xiaobo Qu, Di Guo, Xue Cao, Shuhui Cai, Zhong Chen. Reconstruction of self-sparse 2D NMR spectra from undersampled data in the indirect dimension, Sensors, 11(9):8888-8909,2011. 8. Xiaobo Qu, Xue Cao, Di Guo, Changwei Hu, Zhong Chen. Combined sparsifying transforms for compressed sensing MRI, Electronics Letters, vol.46, no.2, pp.121-123, 2010. 9. Xiaobo Qu, Weiru Zhang, Di Guo, Congbo Cai, Shuhui Cai, Zhong Chen.Iterative thresholding compressed sensing MRI based on contourlet transform, Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering, 18(6):737-758, 2010. 10. Xiaobo Qu, Jingwen Yan, Hongzhi Xiao, Ziqian Zhu.. Image fusion algorithm based on spatial frequency-motivated Pulse Coupled Neural Networks in nonsubsampled contourlet transform domain. Acta Automatica Sinica, 34(12):1508-1514, Dec.2008 11. Xiaobo Qu, Jingwen Yan, Guide Yang. Sum-modified-Laplacian-based multifocus image fusion method in sharp frequency localized contourlet transform domain. Optics and Precision Engineering, 17(5):1209-1218, June 2009. (In Chinese) 12. Xiaobo Qu, Jingwen Yan, Guofu Xie, Ziqian Zhu, Bengang Chen. A novel image fusion algorithm based on bandelet transform. Chinese Optics Letters,5(10):569-572, Oct. 2007

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Conference papers Di Guo, Xiaobo Qu, Lianfen Huang, Yan Yao, Zicheng Liu, MingTing Sun. Sparsitybased Online Missing Sensor Data Recovery, 2012 IEEE Int. Symp. Circuits and Systems-ISCAS'12, Seoul, Korea, May 20-23, 2012, pp.918921. (Oral presentation) Xiaobo Qu, Di Guo, Bende Ning, Yingkun Hou, Shuhui Cai, Zhong Chen, Undersampled MRI reconstruction with trained directions from a guide image, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 20th Scientific Meeting. Melbourne, Australia, 2012, pp.2264. Zhong Chen, Changwei Hu, Xiaobo Qu, Lijun Bao, Shuhui Cai, Improving edge recovery in udersampled MRI reconstruction, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 20th Scientific Meeting. Melbourne, Australia, 2012, pp. 2270. Xiaobo Qu, Changwei Hu, Di Guo, Lijun Bao, Zhong Chen, Gaussian Scale Mixture-based Joint reconstruction of multicomponent MR images from undersampled k-space measurements, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 19th Scientific Meeting. Montreal, Canada, 2011, pp.2838. Changwei Hu, Xiaobo Qu, Di Guo, Lijun Bao, Shuhui Cai, Zhong Chen, Undersampled MRI reconstruction using edge-weighted L1 norm minimization, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 19h Scientific Meeting. Montreal, Canada, 2011, pp.2832. Lijun Bao, Wanyu Liu, Changwei Hu, Xiaobo Qu, Shuhui Cai, and Zhong Chen, Three dimensional restoration of cardiac magnetic resonance diffusion weighted images based on sparse denoising, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 19th Scientific Meeting. Montreal, Canada, 2011, pp. 2703. Xiaobo Qu, Xue Cao, Di Guo, Changwei Hu, Zhong Chen. Compressed Sensing MRI with Combined Sparsifying Transforms and Smoothed L0 Norm Minimization. The 35th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing-ICASSP'2010, Dallas, Texas, U.S.A, March 14-19, 2010,pp. 626-629. Xiaobo Qu, Xue Cao, Di Guo, Zhong Chen, Compressed Sensing for Sparse Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 19th Scientific Meeting, Stockholm, Sweden, 2010, p 3371. Xiaobo Qu, Di Guo, Zhong Chen, Congbo Cai. Compressed sensing MRI based on nonsubsampled contourlet transform. 2008 IEEE International Symposium on IT in Medicine & Education-ITME'08, 12 -14 Dec., 2008, Xiamen, China, pp.693-696

ACTIVITIES
Oral presentation: 1. Xiaobo Qu. Adaptive sparsifying transforms in compressed sensing MRI, International Symposium on Compressed Sensing: Theory and Applications, Tianjin, China, 9th -12th, June, 2012. (20 minutes oral presentation) Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, IEEE Transactions on BioMedical Engineering, IET Image Processing, Pattern Recognition Letters, Signal Processing, Signal Processing: Image Communication, Information Fusion, Electronics Letters, Acta Automatica Sinica, Acta Electronica Sinica, Chinese Optics Letters, Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics, Optics and Precision Engineering, Journal of Remote Sensing Membership: IEEE student member, ISMRM student member, IEEE EMBS Xiamen Student Club

SKILLS
Programming: MATLAB, C++, C. Language: Public English Test System of China on Level Five (Top level) (Writing 58/100, Listening 21/30, Oral 4/5) If the bearer gets more than 55 points on writing and more than 3 points on oral, it shows the bearer has a standard of English adequate for him of her to undertake postgraduate study or academic research work abroad according to China Scholarship Council policy.