Haotian Hong ( 洪浩天 / Harry )

Education

• Shanghai University Sep. 2019 - Jun. 2023
  • School of Communication and Information Engineering, Biomedical Engineering
  • GPA: 3.79, College: 8/457 (1.8%), Class:1/31 (3.2%)
• Concordia University Jun. 2022 - Aug. 2022
  • I-SIP Lab
  • Visiting Student
• ShanghaiTech University Dec. 2022 - Jun. 2023
  • School of Biomedical Engineering
  • Visiting Student
• ShanghaiTech University Sep. 2023 - On Going
  • School of Biomedical Engineering
  • Master’s Student
• Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging Nov. 2025 - On Going
  • Research Scholar

Professional Service

• Teaching Assistant of Magnetic Resonance Imaging Practice, 2024 Fall
• Reviewer for ISMRM (International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine) and JMRI (Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging)
• Moderator for ISMRM Sunrise Course Session: Laying the Foundation of Cardiovascular MRI: Post-Processing, Cape Town, 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting

Technical Skills

• MR Sequence Development: United Imaging Adept, Pulseq
• MR Image Reconstruction: BART, SigPy, Gadgetron
• MR Signal Modeling: Bloch Simulation, Concomitant Field Simulation, bSSFP Signal Modeling
• Programming: Python, C/C++, MATLAB, Julia
• Developer Tools: VSCode, VS, Vim, Unity, QT, MDK
• 3D Model Design: AutoCAD, Fusion360

Research Interest

• Novel Pulse Sequence Design
• MR signal modeling and artifact removal
• MR hardware development and optimization (Dynamic B0 field control)
• MR Reconstruction

Awards

• Magna Cum Laude Merit Award (top 15%), 2026 ISMRM — Abstract 531-01-003, ISMRM Annual Meeting & Exhibition, Cape Town, May 2026.
• Magna Cum Laude Merit Award (top 15%), 2026 ISMRM — Abstract 605-02-005, ISMRM Annual Meeting & Exhibition, Cape Town, May 2026.
• Second Place Award, ISMRM MR Engineering Study Group Trainee Poster Awards — ISMRM Annual Meeting & Exhibition, Honolulu, HI, May 2025.

Talks

• Prospective Correction of Fuzzy Ripple Artifacts in High-Resolution EPI using Dynamic Multi-Channel B₀ Field Control — Pitch Presentation, Gordon Research Conference: In Vivo Magnetic Resonance, 2026. (Abstract #8)
• Multi-Echo SSFP: A Method for Synthetic bSSFP MRI Contrast Without Banding Artifacts at High Field — Oral Presentation, ISMRM Annual Meeting & Exhibition, Cape Town, 2026. (Abstract 605-02-005)
• From Ellipse to Projection Matrix: Perspective Geometry for Quantitative bSSFP Modeling — Flash Presentation, ISMRM Annual Meeting & Exhibition, Cape Town, 2026. (Abstract 531-01-003)
• Multi-Echo SSFP: A Method for Synthetic bSSFP MRI Contrast without Banding Artifacts at High Field — Oral Presentation, ISMRM Workshop on Data Sampling & Image Reconstruction, Sedona, AZ, 2026.
• Cardiac MR Gating Using a Non-contact MR-compatible Doppler Radar System at 3T — ISMRM Engineering Study Group Trainee Abstract Competition, Second Prize, Honolulu, HI, 2025.

Technical Projects

• SeqEyes Online — Pulseq MRI Sequence Viewer — An interactive Pulseq .seq file viewer with GPU-accelerated 3D k-space rendering. Available as a web app, VS Code extension, and MATLAB toolbox. Inspired by SeqEyes. [Web App]

• ACDC Shim Waveform Optimization — A Python toolkit for solving constrained shim-coil-current optimization problems in MRI. Implements four solvers (exact QP + FISTA variants) for static and time-varying $B_0$ shimming with amplifier SIRF modeling, developed during internship at the Martinos Center. [Notes]

• Concomitant Field Simulation — A backend-agnostic Python package (NumPy / CuPy / PyTorch) for GPU-accelerated simulation of phase accumulation caused by concomitant fields (Maxwell Terms) in MRI, with auto-grad support for differentiable deep learning pipelines. [Notes]

• PyBiotSavart — A Python library designed to simulate and visualize magnetic fields generated by various coil configurations using the Biot-Savart law. It provides an easy-to-use interface for calculating magnetic fields and visualizing them in 3D space. With GPU acceleration powered by PyTorch, PyBiotSavart ensures faster computations for large-scale simulations.

Journal Publications

• A Flexible Graphite–Silicone Pad for Improved Fat Suppression in Cervical Spine MRI at 5T via Passive B0 Shimming

  • Yihan Yang, Ziyu Liu, Haotian Hong, Weijun Zhang, Zhihua Ren
  • Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 2026: 1–13. DOI: 10.1002/mrm.70535.

• Multi-Echo SSFP: A Method for Synthetic bSSFP MRI Contrast Without Banding Artifacts at High Field

  • Haotian Hong, Michael N. Hoff, Wenchao Yang, Yiyun Dong, Zijian Zhou, Peng Hu
  • Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 2026: 1–13. DOI: 10.1002/mrm.70472.

• Simultaneous Myocardial T1, T2, T1ρ and Fat Fraction Mapping with Hybrid Dual-Echo Cartesian Acquisition and Dictionary Matching

  • Zhenfeng Lyu, Hongzhang Huang, Haotian Hong, Junpu Hu, Yali Wu, Xianling Qian, Liwei Hu, Yumin Zhong, Mengsu Zeng, Peng Hu, Haikun Qi
  • Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, 2026 Mar 27; 28(1): 102721. DOI: 10.1016/j.jocmr.2026.102721.

• Effect of laser acupuncture combined with electrical stimulation on recovery from exercise fatigue in mice

  • Yudan Xia, Zehai Hou, Haotian Hong, Na Chen, Taihao Li, Heng Zhang, Shupeng Liu
  • Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, 16(4), 2023: 2350001.

Conference Papers and Abstracts

• Haotian Hong, Renzo Huber, Lincoln Craven-Brightman, Paul Dubovan, Theodore Brierre, Jason Stockmann, Bastien Guerin. “Active Compensation of Short-Term Eddy Currents in High-Resolution EPI Using a 31-Channel ACDC Shim Coil at 7T”, Gordon Research Conference: In Vivo Magnetic Resonance, 2026. (Abstract #8)
• Haotian Hong, Michael Hoff, Wenchao Yang, Yiyun Dong, Zijian Zhou, Peng Hu. “Multi-Echo SSFP: A Method for Synthetic bSSFP MRI Contrast without Banding Artifacts at High Field.” ISMRM Annual Meeting & Exhibition. ISMRM, 2026. (Abstract 605-02-005)
• Haotian Hong, Yiyun Dong, Michael Hoff, Zijian Zhou, Peng Hu. “From Ellipse to Projection Matrix: Perspective Geometry for Quantitative bSSFP Modeling.” ISMRM Annual Meeting & Exhibition. ISMRM, 2026. (Abstract 531-01-003)
• Yihan Yang, Haotian Hong, Ziyu Liu, Weijun Zhang, Peng Hu, Zhihua Ren. “Graphite-Silicone Composite Neck Shim Pad for Enhanced B0 Homogeneity and Fat Suppression in Ultra-High-Field MRI.” ISMRM Annual Meeting & Exhibition. ISMRM, 2026. (Abstract 470-04-098)
• Xin Bai, Haotian Hong, Yuyang Ren, Wenlei Shang, Zijian Zhou, Peng Hu. “Spectral optimization of rosette k-space trajectories for improved fat suppression.” ISMRM Annual Meeting & Exhibition. ISMRM, 2026. (Abstract 470-04-097)
• Xin Bai, Haotian Hong, Zijian Zhou, Peng Hu. “Optimizing Rosette Trajectories For Intrinsic Fat Suppression Using a Signal-Equation Model.” 48th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. EMBC, 2026.
• Tong Wu, Haotian Hong, Mingjuan Qin, Zhengyu Cai, Shunli Han, Yiran Li, Xinyuan Xia, Lingzhi Hu, Peng Hu, Zhihua Ren. “Cardiac MR Gating Using a Non-contact MR-compatible Doppler Radar System at 3T: Initial Results on Healthy Subjects.” Second Prize, ISMRM Engineering Study Group Trainee Abstract Competition. ISMRM Annual Meeting & Exhibition. ISMRM, 2025.
• Haotian Hong, Yuyang Ren, Wenjian Liu, Zijian Zhou, Peng Hu. “Bullet: An Acceleration Method for Cartesian Partial Echo Acquisition.” ISMRM Annual Meeting & Exhibition. ISMRM, 2025.
• Haotian Hong, Zijian Zhou, Peng Hu. “Ellipsoidal Cartesian K-space Sampling with Variable Readout Duration for 3D MRI Acceleration.” ISMRM Annual Meeting & Exhibition. ISMRM, 2025.
• Yuyang Ren, Haotian Hong, Zijian Zhou, Peng Hu. “Unsupervised phase unwrapping for aortic 4D flow MRI using deep image prior.” ISMRM Annual Meeting & Exhibition. ISMRM, 2025.
• Zhenfeng Lyu, Hongzhang Huang, Haotian Hong, Junpu Hu, Liwei Hu, Yumin Zhong, Peng Hu, Haikun Qi. “Simultaneous Myocardial T1, T2, T1$\rho$ and Fat Fraction Mapping with Hybrid Dual-Echo Cartesian Acquisition and Dictionary Matching.” ISMRM Annual Meeting & Exhibition. ISMRM, 2025.
• Yuyang Ren, Wen Ye, Wenchao Yang, Wenjian Liu, Haotian Hong, Junpu Hu, Jiayu Zhu, Zijian Zhou, Haikun Qi, Fei Shan, Peng Hu. “Fully self-gated dual-venc 5D flow MRI for simultaneous imaging of the cardiovascular and portal venous systems.” ISMRM Annual Meeting & Exhibition. ISMRM, 2025.
• Haotian Hong, Wenjian Liu, Yuyang Ren, Wenlei Shang, Wenchao Yang, Tianhao Jiang, Zhuocheng Xie, Jiayu Zhu, Haikun Qi, Peng Hu. “MRI Acceleration with Frequency Encoding Subsampling using Double Lobe Gradient (DOGE) Readout Waveform.” ISMRM Annual Meeting & Exhibition. ISMRM, 2024.
• Zepei Cao, Kaixin Lu, Haotian Hong. “Medical endoscopic image classification based on IN-RESCA-SVM+.” 2022 7th International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Signal Processing (ICSP). IEEE, 2022.

Patents

• Haotian Hong, Peng Hu, Wenjian Liu, Yuyang Ren, Wenlei Shang, Wenchao Yang. “Method, system and medium for Magnetic Resonance Imaging Subsampling and Reconstruction by adjusting Frequency Encoding Gradient Waveforms.” 202311778606.3.
• Haotian Hong, Peng Hu, Yuyang Ren, Wenjian Liu, Tianhao Jiang, Zhuocheng Xie. Magnetic Resonance Imaging acceleration method, device, medium, program product, and endpoint based on Ellipsoidal Cartesian K-space Sampling." 202410881433.6

Honors (Undergraduate)

Project Experiences (Undergraduate)

Taichi-Q

A Quantum Computation Simulation Framework based on Taichi.

It was originally a competition project. Won the 2nd prize of Taichi Hackathon

Amazon Deepracer Simulation based on ROS and Gazebo

Opensource auto-control deepracer simulation car.

Real time Heart Rate Measurement with rPPG

Applying rPPG algorithm (CHROM, PBV) to facial video and obtaining real-time heart rate of human being.

Chest CT Segmentation & Visualization System

Chest CT segmentation using threshold and U-Net methods, visualization with voxel rendering and grey-level mapping.

Automatic Delivery UAV System

Designing an auto-control delivery UAV from scratch, with Laser Radar, Depth Camera for positioning and 3D printed structure for delivery. Image/Signal processing and route planning are done in the attached Raspberry Pi.

Human-Computer Chitchat System based on GPT-2

A chitchat system using fine-tuned GPT-2 model for generating chat content and ESPNet2 model for voice generation.

SHU Navigation System

Navigation system for Shanghai University based on Open Street Map data and Dijkstra Algorithm.

3D Data Visualization Software

A Qt-based Software for 3D data visualization, including mesh, point cloud and voxel