Liyong Lin, PhD, FAAPM, DABR, is a professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology at Emory University School of Medicine and an adjunct professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
He serves as an associate editor of Medical Physics and chairs American Association of Physicists in Medicine Task Group 349 on Proton Monte Carlo, as well as multiple working groups within the NRG Oncology and Particle Therapy Co-Operative Group. He is a member of the Protocol Review and Monitoring Committee and the Discovery and Developmental Therapeutics Research Program at Winship Cancer Institute.
Education
Dr. Lin received his PhD in medical physics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and completed a two‑year clinical postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Florida Proton Therapy Institute.
Titles & Roles
Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology
Emory University School of Medicine
Adjunct Professor, Nuclear and Radiological Engineering, and Medical Physics
The George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Research
An ABR board‑certified medical physicist, Dr. Lin’s expertise began with proton therapy commissioning, quality assurance, and Monte Carlo characterization of pencil beam scanning proton therapy systems for clinical and preclinical applications, including studies of radiation immune response at the University of Pennsylvania. Since joining Emory University, his research has focused on developing novel treatment optimization and delivery systems for advanced particle therapy applications, including FLASH and spatially fractionated therapies. His research interests span Monte Carlo simulation, deep learning techniques for particle microdosimetry imaging, and GPU‑accelerated optimization.
Dr. Lin is the principal investigator of an active NCI/NIH R03 grant and routinely serves as a grant reviewer for the U.S. Department of Energy Nuclear Energy University Program.
