Yulong Yan

Dr. Yulong Yan is a Professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology at UT Southwestern Medical Center, where he serves as Director of Computational Physics and faculty in the Division of Medical Physics & Engineering. His career spans academic, clinical, and technical domains in radiation oncology and biomedical engineering.

• Bachelor's & Master's: Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
• Ph.D.: Biomedical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing
• Fellowship/Residency: Stanford University School of Medicine

Dr. Yan's research focuses on Medical Physics, Adaptive Radiotherapy, and Deep Learning applications in clinical oncology. Key areas include:

• Functional lung avoidance techniques (FWAS, virtual bronchoscopy)
• Deep learning for synthetic CT generation and tumor segmentation
• Dose verification platforms (ART2Dose)
• Radiation toxicity modeling for brain and lung treatments
• Bluetooth-based localization systems for clinical applications
• MR-only radiotherapy workflows

His publications demonstrate expertise in Image-Guided Radiotherapy, Treatment Planning Optimization, and Radiation Dose Modeling, with a 2013–2024 publication record showing sustained contributions to Medical Physics, Radiotherapy and Oncology, and PLOS One. Dr. Yan has served as Associate Editor for Medical Physics and Journal of Clinical Medical Physics, while chairing the Southwest Chapter AAPM Communications and IT Committee since 2014. As an educator since 2013, he mentors medical physics residents and postdoctoral fellows while delivering lectures in the Medical Physics Certificate Program.