Pingkun Yan, Ph.D.

Dr. Pingkun Yan is the P.K. Lashmet Chair Professor and Department Head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). Before joining RPI, he was a Senior Scientist of Philips Research working at the clinical site at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). His research focuses on translational medical imaging informatics and image-guided intervention using artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques through close collaboration with clinicians.

Dr. Yan has published over 120 peer-reviewed articles in well-recognized journals including Nature Communications, PNAS, Medical Image Analysis, IEEE T-MI, IEEE T-CSVT, IEEE T-BME, IEEE T-ITB, Medical Physics, and top international conferences including MICCAI, ICCV, CVPR, and ISBI. His publications have been cited more than 13,500 times. His research work has also resulted in 10+ patent filings and issued patents. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award and NIBIB Trailblazer award. 

Dr. Yan has actively contributed to the scientific community. Dr. Yan is currently a member of the MICCAI Board of Directors and serving as an associate editor of multiple international journals, including IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging and Neurocomputing (Elsevier). He is a senior member of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He is the Chair of the IEEE EMBS Technical Committee on Biomedical Imaging and Image Processing and was named an IEEE EMBS Distinguished Lecturer for 2025–26.