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Xiaojian Kang, CA

MR Physicist
Department of Veteran Affairs, Palo Alto, California, United States

EDUCATION
DATE DEGREE MAJOR INSTITUTION
1993 – 1998 Ph.D. (7/98) Physics Indiana University, Bloomington
1995 – 1998 M. S. (7/98) Computer Science Indiana University, Bloomington
1984 – 1987 M. E. (4/87) Electronic Engineering Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
1980 – 1984 B. S. (7/84) Electronic Engineering Xi'an Jiaotong University, China

9/2017 - Present
MR Physicist and Imaging Server Administrator
Adamson Brain Stimulation Lab (https://med.stanford.edu/adamson-lab.html)
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Stanford University School of Medicine, 401 Quarry Road, Stanford, CA
Palo Alto Veterans Institute for Research (PAVIR)
VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA
 Administration of the neuroimaging servers (windows and linux)
 MR research sequence maintenance on GE and Siemens 3T scanners
 Database management for MRI and Pet/MR data
 Analyses of imaging data to support the research goals for
Adamson Brain Stimulation Lab (ABSLAB)
War Related Illness and Injury Study Center (WRIISC)
Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC).
9/2000 – 9/2017 MR Physicist, Department of Neurology, University of California, Davis, CA
Human Cognitive Neurophysiology Lab (http://www.ebire.org/hcnlab/)
VA-NCHCS, Martinez, CA.
 MR research sequence maintenance, MR experiment operations and safety trainings on a
3 T Siemens Verio scanner and a 1.5 T Philips Eclipse scanner.
 Development of MR data analysis methods using Matlab, SPM and FreeSurfer.
9/1998 – 8/2000 Postdoc, Department of Radiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
 Analysis of carotid artery MRI, supported by NIH.
 Administrator of the computer lab of MRI group in Radiology.
5/1994 – 8/1998 Research Associate, Indiana University Cyclotron Facility, Bloomington, IN
 Cooler Injector Synchrotron Project, supported by NSF and Indiana University.
 2D and 3D magnetic field design using MagNet and SUPERFISH.
7/1991 – 8/1993 Engineer, Beijing Nuclear Instrument Factory, Beijing, PR China
 Study of mini-fission chambers and thermocouples for nuclear reactors.
9/1988 – 7/1991 Research Associate, Peking University, Beijing, PR China
 Development of the beam pulsing system for a 4.5MeV Van de Graaff accelerator.
4/1987 – 8/1988 Research Associate, Xi'an Jiaotong University, PR China
 Study of the hollow cathode ion sources.

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