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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

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 , (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. .
Zeng, Larry , (2025) "Mitigating the drawbacks of the L0 norm and the total variation norm" (Issue: 8, vol. 14). Axioms. https://doi.org/10.3390/axioms14080605
Zeng, Larry , (2025) "Limited-angle tomography using a neural network as the objective function" (Issue: 1, vol. 5). Int J Biomed Res Prac. https://www.scivisionpub.com/pdfs/limitedangle-tomography-using-a-neural-network-as-the-objective-function-3997.pdf
Zeng, Larry , (2024) "Better than the total variation regularization" . Zeng GL.
Zeng, Larry , (2024) "Deterministic versus nondeterministic optimization algorithms for the restricted Boltzmann machine" . Zeng, GL.

Awards

IEEE Life Fellow

IEEE - January 1, 2026