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Incoming Duke Medical Physics students kicked off the year with a two-part AI Orientation led by Dr. Lo and Dr. Robertson! 🤖
Students explored AI-use dilemmas and demonstrations before taking on hands-on vibe coding challenges built around physics problems. ⚛️
A behind-the-scenes look at the prep that went into the Duke MedPhys BBQ last weekend! Thank you to everyone who helped make it happen! 💙🌭
Over the weekend, Duke MedPhys had a program BBQ to celebrate the first week of classes! A great way to bring everyone together and start the semester! 💙🌭☀️
Duke Medical Physics is excited to welcome 17 new Master’s students and 4 new PhD students! 🎉
Yesterday, our students and faculty came together for a welcome reception to kick off the new semester. We’re looking forward to a great school year! 🌟
Congratulations to Breylon Riley, PhD (Advisor: Kyle Lafata, PhD), on the successful defense of their doctoral dissertation, “A Multiomics Architecture for Multiscale Phenotyping in HPV+ Oropharyngeal Carcinoma,” on June 17, 2026.
On April 18th, we held our Spring Social at Frush Farm! We had so much to celebrate, as our students have accomplished a lot this year. We celebrated students' finalized defenses, their Matches, as well as the successful completion of our Spring Open House.
As we approach graduation, it’s time for the Duke tradition to climb to the top of the Chapel… our program’s graduates are gearing up for this feat on May 7. Meantime, here’s a teaser from Aidan Baydush, Pratt Class of 2026 (linkedin.com/in/aidan-baydus… and IG @aidan_baydush)!
Mingyue Chen, MS, successfully defended her Scholarship Project titled “Reinforcement Learning for Automated IMRT Treatment Planning: Mathematical Formulation for Optimized Reward Function Design” on April 10, 2026. Guided by Jackie Wu, PhD and Yang Sheng, PhD. Congratulations!
Congratulations Roberto Carrascosa, MS (Advisor: Scott Robertson, PhD) on defending your thesis on March 31, 2026, titled: “Development and Validation of Tools for Virtual Imaging Trials of Ultrafast Breast MRI.” This accomplishment reflects his hard work, well done!
We are excited to share that Justin Simmons, MS (Advisor: Timothy Turkington, PhD) has successfully defended his Master’s thesis titled “Analysis of PET Image Quality Using 2D vs 3D ROIs in Small Spheres” on March 31, 2026. Congratulations to Justin!
We are delighted to celebrate Katherine Moeser, MS (Advisor: Timothy Turkington, PhD), on the successful defense of her master’s thesis on March 30, 2026, titled “Respiration-Related Attenuation Artifacts in PET/CT.” Congratulations on this outstanding achievement!
Congratulations to Jingtong Zhao, PhD (Advisors: Chunhao Wang, PhD and Deshan Yang, PhD), on the successful defense of her Doctoral dissertation on March 30, 2026, titled “Explainable AI and Advanced Mathematical Modeling for Radiotherapy Outcome Assessment.” Great job!
Please join us in celebrating Yakun Zhang, PhD (Advisor: Ehsan Samei, PhD), who successfully defended her PhD dissertation on March 27, 2026. Her dissertation, “Systemic Integration of Retrospective Analysis for Optimizing CT Imaging Practice,” Well done Dr. Zhang.
Warm congratulations to Runhe Tan, MS (Advisor: Kyle Lafata, PhD) on successfully defending his Master’s thesis on March 27, 2026. His thesis, “Investigating Intra-tumoral Heterogenity Driven by Nutrient Dynamics and Radiotherapy Using an In-silico Avascular Tumor Growth Model”
We are pleased to announce that Xin Wu, PhD (mentored by Jackie Wu, PhD and Qiuwen Wu, PhD), has successfully defended their dissertation, " From Dose Engine to Machine Learning in Radiation Therapy: Frameworks, Insights, and Clinical Applications," on March 27, 2026. Well done!
On March 27, 2026, Em Harkness, MS (Advisors: Ehsan Samei, PhD and Francesco Ria, PhD) successfully defended their master’s thesis titled “A Framework for Uncertainty Propagation in Risk-to-Risk Assessment of Clinical and Radiation Risks in CT Across Patient Demographics.”
On March 26, 2026, Caleb Smith, MS (Advisor: Justus Adamson, PhD) successfully defended his master’s thesis titled “Quantifying the Potential Benefit of Applying Remote Magnetic Navigation Systems to Abdominal SBRT.” Congratulations to Caleb on this important milestone!
On March 25, 2026, Gwynne Aull, MS (Advisor: Timothy Turkington, PhD) successfully defended her MS thesis, “PET Image Quality in the Vicinity of the Bladder.” We congratulate her on this achievement.
Madison Allen, MS (Advisor: Timothy Turkington, PhD) successfully defended her masters thesis on March 25, 2026. Her thesis, “Detrimental Effects of Recent Radionuclide Therapy and SPECT Radionuclide Activities on Subsequent PET Imaging due to Detector Pulse Pile-Up and Deadtime"
