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Qiu Wu is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at
The University of Texas at Austin. He is also a trainee in the Department of Diagnostic Radiology at UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center(Houston,TX). He affiliates with the inter-institutional Biomedical Engineering Department of The University of Texas.

He received the bachelor's degree in computer science from Hefei University of Technology, China, in 1995. His M.S. degree, in electrical engineering (signal processing track), was received from Southeast University, China, in 1998.

In the fall semester of 1998, he was a visiting scholar with the School of Electrical and Information Engineering at The University of Sydney, Australia. He had internship with Siemens Corporate Research (Princeton, NJ) and with Siemens Medical Solutions USA (Malvern, PA), in the summer of 2000 and summer of 2004, respectively.

He was elected to President (2003--2004) of the Graduate Engineering Council at The University of Texas at Austin. He served on Technical Program Committee of 2006 IEEE Region 5  annual conference. He is a recipient of a 2006 New Entrant Stipend Award from International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.