Research Assistant
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Rita Huan-Ting Peng is a PhD student in Bioengineering at UIUC, with Master's degrees in Physics and Biophotonics, and a Bachelor's in Medical Imaging and Radiological Sciences. With experience in clinical settings and academia, including astrophysics and mathematics at Academia Sinica in Taiwan, she now conducts research at the Illinois-Carle Joint Neural Engineering and Rehabilitation Laboratory (JNERL). Her work focuses on using multi-modal brain signals and imaging for lesion segmentation, understanding mechanisms, and advancing personalized treatments for brain disorders like stroke. Her interests include deep learning in medical imaging, multi-modal brain imaging, and computational bioengineering.