Dr. Zheng completed his bachelor and Ph.D in Electrical Engineering at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 2002 and 2007, respectively. He worked for his university as a lecturer (2008) and associate professor (2014) after graduation. In 2010, he joined Department of Radiology of Jinling hospital, medical school of Nanjing University and did clinical research about hepatic encephalopathy based on fMRI under the supervision of Dr. Guangming Lu (Head of MRI team of the Chinese society of Radiology). From 2013 to 2014, he went to Center for Functional Neuroimaging at the University of Pennsylvania under the supervision of Dr. Ze Wang, and participated in the project about arterial spin labelling MRI and brain connectome.

      Currently, Zheng is a pre-clinical MR physicist at Monash Biomedical Imaging. His MR imaging research is aimed at developing noninvasive perfusion and metabolism fMRI techniques. Zheng’s clinical and pre-clinical research interests remain in metabolic brain diseases including hepatic encephalopathy, uremic encephalopathy and brain diseases caused by systemic lupus erythematosus. He is also interested in genetics based early detection of risk to developing Alzheimer’s Diseases.