{"id":5198,"date":"2019-09-30T08:51:57","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T12:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/radonc\/?post_type=directory&#038;p=5198"},"modified":"2026-02-11T20:11:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T01:11:02","slug":"jun-lian","status":"publish","type":"directory","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/radonc\/directory\/jun-lian\/","title":{"rendered":"Jun Lian"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Education<\/h2>\n<p>Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University (2001)<br \/>\nPostdoctoral Fellowship, Medical Physics, Stanford University (2003)<br \/>\nM.S., Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (1997)<br \/>\nB.S., Applied Physics, Tsinghua University (1994)<\/p>\n<h2>Board Certification<\/h2>\n<p>Therapeutic Radiological Physics (The American Board of Radiology) 2006<\/p>\n<h2>Honors and Awards<\/h2>\n<p>2020 AAPM Grand Challenge &#8220;The Open Knowledge-Based Planning Challenge,&#8221; # 5 out of 100<br \/>\n2017 The Science Council Award, American Association of Physics in Medicine<br \/>\n2017 Best Protocol Development Award IBPRO (Integrated course in Biology and Physics of Radiation Oncology)<br \/>\n2014 The Chaney Award for Excellence in Physics Research, Department of Radiation Oncology, UNC Chapel Hill<br \/>\n2013 Editor\u2019s pick, Medical Physics Journal<br \/>\n2004 Top 10 most downloaded paper of Journal of Physiology<br \/>\n1997\u20132000 Whitaker Foundation Fellowship<br \/>\n1997 \u201cDi Au\u201d Graduates\u2019 thesis competition of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2nd place<br \/>\n1995 Excellent Graduate Scholarship, Chinese Academy of Sciences<\/p>\n<h2>Research Expertise<\/h2>\n<p>Image segmentation and registration<br \/>\nMachine learning application in radiation oncology<br \/>\nIMRT\/VMAT optimization<br \/>\nImage-guided and adaptive radiotherapy<\/p>\n<h2>Grants (Active)<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cImpact and Compensation of Intrafractional Motion for Tomotherapy Sterotactic Body Radiaotherapy Treatment (SBRT)\u201d, Accuray, 027214, 2017-2018. Principal Investigator<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAutomatic pelvic organ delineation in prostate cancer treatment\u201d, NIH 1R01CA206100, 2018-2023. Principal Investigator<\/p>\n<h2>Books\/Chapters<\/h2>\n<p>J. Lian, L.B. Marks, \u201cAdaptive Radiation Therapy for Lung Cancer,\u201d in Adaptive Radiation Therapy, page 293-311, edited by A.X. Li (CRC Press, 2011).<\/p>\n<p>Y. Gao, Y. Shi, S. Liao, J. Lian*, D. Shen, \u201cImage-Guided Radiotherapy with Machine Learning,\u201d in Machine Learning in Radiation Oncology: Theory and Applications, page 157-192, edited by Issam El Naqa, Ruijiang Li and Martin J. 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