{"id":139112,"date":"2023-05-11T10:32:40","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T14:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/?p=139112"},"modified":"2023-08-18T11:34:22","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T15:34:22","slug":"xin-zhang-is-an-all-star-finalist-in-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/2023\/05\/11\/xin-zhang-is-an-all-star-finalist-in-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Xin Zhang Wins STAT Madness 2023 All-Star Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_78551\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-78551\" style=\"width: 402px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/eng\/files\/2018\/10\/resize-18-1849-ZHANG-029-636x424.jpg\" alt=\"A portrait of Xin Zhang\" class=\" wp-image-78551\" width=\"392\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/files\/2018\/10\/resize-18-1849-ZHANG-029-636x424.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/files\/2018\/10\/resize-18-1849-ZHANG-029-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/files\/2018\/10\/resize-18-1849-ZHANG-029-992x664.jpg 992w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/files\/2018\/10\/resize-18-1849-ZHANG-029.jpg 995w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-78551\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Xin Zhang (ME, ECE, BME, MSE)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/profile\/xin-zhang-ph-d\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Xin Zhang<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/me\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ME<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ECE<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/bme\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BME<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/mse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MSE<\/a>) won the 2023 All-Star Award at STAT Madness, a bracket-style contest for innovative projects in science and medicine. Zhang presented her work to a panel of judges at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2023\/summit\/breakthrough-summit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">STAT Breakthrough Summit<\/a> in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>Zhang&#8217;s innovation is a metamaterial that can make magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) faster, safer, and more accessible to patients around the world. The metamaterial is a structure that can bend, absorb, or manipulate electromagnetic waves, sound waves, or radio waves. It can be designed in different sizes and shapes, and placed at different orientations\u2014for example, Zhang&#8217;s team crafted a version that can be worn over a subject&#8217;s head to boost the quality of MRI brain scan images.<\/p>\n<p><em>Read the full story on BU&#8217;s <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2023\/xin-zhang-wins-stat-madness-2023-all-star-award\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Brink<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Xin Zhang has won the 2023 All-Star Award at STAT Madness, a bracket-style contest for innovative projects in science and medicine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2662,"featured_media":78551,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[236,257,899,907,909,908,245,1052],"tags":[995,708],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139112"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139112"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140143,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139112\/revisions\/140143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}