Leslie Ying received her BEng in Electronics Engineering from Tsinghua University, China in 1997 and both her MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign in 1999 and 2003, respectively. She is now an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Electrical Engineering at SUNY-Buffalo. Before joining SUNY-Buffalo, she was on faculty at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. Her research interests include magnetic resonance imaging, compressed sensing, and image reconstruction. She received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation in 2009. She was elected as an AdCom member of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society in 2012. She is a Deputy Editor of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and a senior member of IEEE.

• PhD, Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003
• MS, Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1999
• BS, Electronics Engineering, Tsinghua University, China, 1997

• National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2009
• University at Buffalo SEAS Senior Researcher of the Year Award, 2017
• First Place in Poster Awards (Image Reconstruction and Post-Processing),
  International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), 2008
• Best Paper Award, Journal of Digital Imaging, 2010