Dr. Yujie Chi (Associate Professor)
Dr. Yujie Chi is an Associate Professor of Physics at UTA. She received her Ph.D. degree in theoretical physics from the theoretical physics institute of the Peking University, China (2014). She conducted her postdoctoral research in medical physics at the radiation oncology department of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UTSW) between 2014 – 2017. During her postdoctoral training, she also completed core course studies of the CAMPEP-accredited medical physics program in both UTSW and the University of Florida. At UTA, Dr. Chi’s group focuses on the physics research and techniques in radiation medicine, including fundamental radiobiological study, clinic-oriented radiotherapy problems and ion irradiation instrument development. Techniques frequently used include macroscopic/microscopic Monte Carlo simulation, Graphical Processing Unit (GPU) parallel computing, human intelligence, and hardware design and manufacturing.
Research Associate
Satzhan Sitmukhambetov
PhD., Physics, UTA
Focus: PET and SPECT imaging, quantum computing
Graduate Students
| Mainul Md Abrar PhD candidate, Physics, UTA Focus: AI-based automatic treatment planning | Tajbin Islam PhD candidate, Physics, UTA Focus: Reinforcement learning based research |
| Girish Sunkadakatte Chandra M.S. candidate, Data Science, UTA Focus: treatment planning automation |
Undergraduate Students
| Joshua Rajan B.S. candidate, Physics, UTA Focus: Alpha Irradiation Platform Development, Radiobiological Irradiation | Alexander Cruz Molina B.S. candidate, Physics, UTA Focus: SPECT imaging |
| Jana Abdallah B.S. candidate, Bioengineering, UTA Focus: Deep Reinforcement Learning based research |
Alumni
Postdoctoral Researcher
2018-2019, Varghese Anto Chirayath, UTA Physics
2024-2024, Meiying Xing, UT Southwestern Medical Center (co-supervise)
PhD
2022-2025, Satzhan Sitmukhambetov, Ph.D., now working as a Research Associate in RAH lab
2021-2025, Miguel Molina-Hernandez, Ph.D., German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) (co-supervised), last known as beam physics engineer of IBA
2021-2025, Awat Lotfihagh, Ph.D. candidate, last known as Ph.D. student at UTA (changing research direction and group)
2018-2024, Harsh Arya, Ph.D., postdoc at the Johns Hopkins University
2017-2022, Damon Sprouts, Ph.D., last known as medical physicist at the Oklahoma Proton Center
2018-2021, Youfang Lai, Ph.D., last known as medical physics resident at the Johns Hopkins University
2020-2020, Eric Amador (co-supervise), Ph.D., last known as working in industry
2017-2020, Ananta Chalise, Ph.D. (co-supervise), last known as medical physics resident of Cleveland Clinic
M.S.
2025, Jones Lopes, M.S. candidate, Data Science, UTA
2020, Marcos Guillen, M.S.
Undergraduate
2024-2025, Hina, B.S. candidate, Bioengineering, UTA
2025, Jones Lopes, B.S., Data Science, UTA
2025, Morris Lin, B.S. candidate, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UT Austin
2025, Anthony Fierro, B.S. candidate, Computer Science, UTA
2023, Parvat Sapkota, B.S. in Physics (first worked as undergraduate researcher in the lab before graduation in Dec. 2022. Then worked as RA until Dec. 2023), last known as master student in computer science, UTA
2023, Kacy Colstock-Millume, B.S. in Physics, last known as master student in material engineering, UTA
2022, Megha Bista
2022, Bryan Dinh, last known as graduate student of biophysics program at UT Austin
2020, Kristen Duke, B.S., last known as master student at the Oklahoma medical center
2019, Ojo Ayobami,
2018-2019, Eriberto Estrada, undergraduate research
2018, Samuel John Selvarathinam, undergraduate research
2018, Harsh Arya, B.S., then worked as a graduate student in our lab until 2024
High School Summer Intern
2024, Kevin Xiang, Frisco Senior High
2023, Emily Liang, Carrol Senior High
2021, Tony Wang
2019, Meghana Lammata