People in Xia Lab

As Principal Advisor and Dissertation Chair for PhD in Medical Physics in My Lab:

2003 Jonathan B. Moody, PhD (Medical Physics), “Application of Magnetic Resonance Microscopy to in vitro Characterization of Cartilage Extracellular Matrix and Implications for Osteoarthritis”. (Currently the Imaging Services Manager, INVIA Medical Imaging Solutions, Ann Arbor, Michigan)

2004 Hisham A. Alhadlaq, PhD (Medical Physics), “Applications of Microscopic Magnetic Resonance Imaging and T2 Anisotropy Measurement in Lesioned and Loaded Articular Cartilage: A Quantitative in vitro Study”. (Currently an Associate Professor of Medical Physics in the Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; and the Director-General of the Research and Development Office (RDO) at Ministry of Education, Saudi Arabia)

2015 JiHyun Lee, PhD (Medical Physics), “Detection of the Early Osteoarthritis Changes in the Function and Structure of Articular Cartilage”. (Currently the Imaging Lead at IRF/NIAID/NIH)

2016 David J. Kahn, PhD (Medical Physics), “Imaging the Structural and Biomechanical Changes of Damaged Cartilage”. (Currently Medical Physics Resident at Stony Brook University Hospital, New York)

2016 Daniel J. Mittelstaedt, PhD (Medical Physics), “On the detection of early osteoarthritis by quantitative microscopic imaging”. (Currently a Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Radiation Oncology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan)

On-going: supervising five graduate students in the Medical Physics PhD program.

As Principal Advisor for MSc in Medical Physics in My Lab:

2009 Daniel Mittelstaedt, MSc (Physics), “Amide Anisotropies in the Parallel Sections of Articular Cartilage by Fourier Transform Infrared Microscopy”.

2010 Zheng Huang, MSc (Physics), “Polarized Light Microscopy Study of Center-compressed Articular Cartilage”.

2012 Zahra Awal, MSc (Physics), “FTIRI-ATR of Cellular Structures in Articular Cartilage”.

As Principal Advisor and Mentor for Postdoctoral Researchers in My Lab:

2005 - 08 Dr Nagarajan Ramakrishnan (currently a Senior Scientist at Defense Lab, Rajastan, India)

2005 - 10 Dr Aruna Bidthanapally

2006 - 10 Dr ShaoKuan Zheng (currently an Associate Professor at Dept. of Radiology, University of Massachusetts, Worcester, MA)

2007 - 08 Dr Ashraf Farahat (currently an academic faculty in Egypt)

2008 - 09 Dr JingZhou Zhang (moved to: Columbia University, New York)

2008 - 11 Dr JianHua Yin (currently a full Professor of BME at Nanjing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics, China)

2009 - 10 Dr Matthew Szarko (currently a Senior Lecturer of Anatomy at St. George's, University of London, UK)

2009 - 13 Dr Nian Wang (currently an Assistant Professor of Radiology, at Duke University Medical School, North Carolina)

2017 - 18 Dr Rohit Mahar (currently a Postdoctoral Associate at Dept of Biochem & Mole Bio, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida)

2018 - 19 Dr CS Nagaraja (currently an Associate Professor at Bnmit, Visveswaraiah Technological University, India)

Hosting Visiting/Sabbatical Faculty in My Lab:

2006 (3 m) Prof Hisham A. Alhadlaq (King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)

2007 (3 m) Prof Hisham A. Alhadlaq (King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)

2008-09 (8 m) Prof Ekrem Cicek (Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, Turkey)

2009-10 (12 m) Prof Ranhong Xie (China University of Petroleum, Beijing, China)

2014-15 (12 m) Dr ZhiGuo Zhuang (Radiology Dept, Shanghai RenJi Hospital, China)

2015-16 (14 m) Dr Zhe Chen (Radiology Dept, Shanghai RuiJing Hospital, China)

2019 (3 m) Ms XiaoWen Jiang (Southeast University, Nanjing, China)

Mentor for Miss Elizabeth A. Robbins, an undergraduate student working in my lab and the recipient of a 2000 Minority Scholarship from American Physical Society (APS).

Mentor for several undergraduate students who are in the Honors College of Oakland University (Mr. Austin Tetmeyer 2017-2019, Mr. Simon Miller 2019-2021).

Mentor for several research students in my lab who won OU Provost’s Undergraduate Student Research Awards, OU Provost’s Graduate Student Research Awards, OU Research Council’s Student Travel Grants, and OU Sigma Xi Poster Competition Awards.

Mentor for Undergraduate and High-school Research Students in My Lab: ~50, a list of their names and projects is available upon request.