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Dr. Larry Zeng

Biography

Larry Zeng got his PhD in Electrical Engineering at University of New Mexico. He was a tenured associate professor at Weber State University and was a tenured full professor at University of Utah. Larry is an IEEE fellow and an ABET program evaluator. He is a member in IEEE Nuclear Medical and Imaging Sciences Council. Larry is an active researcher in Medical Image Reconstruction. Larry has published 181 peer-reviewed papers and written 5 textbooks. Larry's most favorite thing to do is university teaching.

Teaching

CS 3240

Discrete Mathematical Structures II, Summer 2026

CS 6600

Graduate Project I, Summer 2026

CS 4710

Machine Learning II, Summer 2026

ECE 2250

Circuit Theory, Spring 2026

ECE 3780

Communication Systems and Circuits, Spring 2026

CS 6480

Deep Learning, Spring 2026

CS 6610

Graduate Project II, Spring 2026

CS 4710

Machine Learning II, Spring 2026

Presentations

Zeng, Larry (Presenter & Author), ISMRM, "One-Step Image Reconstruction for Cine MRI with a Quadratic Constraint ", ISMRM, Singapore. (May 9, 2025)
Zeng, Larry (Presenter & Author), IEEE Medical Imaging, "Better Than the Total Variation Regularization", IEEE, Tampa, FL. (November 1, 2024)
Zeng, Larry (Presenter & Author), CT Meeting, "Extreme Few-View Tomography without Training Data", CT Meeting, Bamberg, Germany. (August 5, 2024)
Zeng, Larry (Presenter & Author), CT Meeting, "Morphing from the TV-Norm to the l0-Norm", CT Meeting, Bamberg, Germany. (August 5, 2024)
Zeng, Larry , Christiansen, Carolyn (Author Only), IEEE Medical Imaging Conference, "Sinogram Interpolation via Deep Learning", IEEE, Milan, Italy. (November 17, 2022)
Zeng, Larry , IEEE MIC, "Human-Designed Filters Can (May) Outperform Machine-Learned Filters", IEEE, Milan, Italy. (November 16, 2022)

Scholarly/Creative Works

Zeng, Larry , (2026) "Limited-angle and few-view image reconstruction using point spread functions" (Issue: 5, vol. 2025). J Biotechnology App. .
Zeng, Larry , (2026) "An exponential total variation functional to replace the total variation norm" (Issue: 5, vol. 2026). J Biotechnology App. .
Zeng, Larry , (2026) "Bayesian regulators to promote sharp image edges in limited-angle tomography by combining L1 and L2 norms" (Issue: 5, vol. 2026). J Biotechnology App. . https://www.scivisionpub.com/pdfs/bayesian-regulators-to-promote-sharp-image-edges-in-limited-angle-tomography-by-combining-l1-and-l2-norms-4226.pdf
Zeng, Larry , (2026) "Mean squared error, structure similarity, and channelized Hotelling observer study in machine learning" (Issue: 5, vol. 2026). J Biotechnology App. . https://www.scivisionpub.com/pdfs/mean-squared-error-structure-similarity-and-channelized-hotelling-observer-study-in-machine-learning-3892.pdf
Zeng, Larry , (2025) "A higher order Ising model with gradient-free update" (Issue: 12, vol. 14). Axioms. https://doi.org/10.3390/axioms14120879. https_//www.mdpi.com/2075-1680/14/12/879
Zeng, Larry , (2025) "Image reconstruction with Maclaurin series expansion" (Issue: 1, vol. 5). Int J Biomed Res Prac. .

Awards

Faculty Senate Awards 2026

UVU - April 15, 2026

IEEE Life Fellow

IEEE - January 1, 2026