Kewei Chen(Adjunct Professor)
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Prof. Kewei Chen is an Adjunct Professor of SJTU School of BME. He is the Director, Senior Scientist and Senior Biomathematician of the Computational Image Analysis Program, Banner Alzheimer's Institute (BAI). He obtained his Ph.D. Degree in Biomathematics at UCLA in 1993. Dr. Chen has over 260 peerreviewed journal publications. He also co-authored over several hundreds abstracts, conference proceedings, books and book chapters. Currently, he serves as an Academic Editor for PLOS-ONE, and Editor-in-Chief (together with Prof. Jinglong Wu) of the newly launched Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering. His primary scientific interests have been the studies of human brain functions and diseases, especially Alzheimer's disease (AD). Using and developing neuroimaging analytic/statistical techniques in positron emission tomography (PET), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and functional MRI, his main methodological research interests include the tracer kinetic modeling in PET, measuring local and global volume changes using various MRI techniques, brain functional connectivity, and multi-modal data integration.