Yang-Ming Zhu is Principal Scientist at Philips Healthcare, currently serving as the software architect for the Recon and Imaging Physics team for Advanced Molecular Imaging. He practices and researches image processing and software engineering with a focus on software architecture, requirements engineering, best practices, software quality, and processes. He is a senior member of IEEE and has published more than 80 book chapters and papers in such journals as IEEE Software, IEEE IT Professional, IEEE Trans Medical Imaging, IEEE Trans Image Processing, Journal of Nuclear Medicine, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review E, and Applied Physical Letters. He holds nine US patents (additional seven are pending approval), numerous professional awards, the Software Architecture Professional Certificate from the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, and advanced degrees in computer science (MS from Kent State University), biomedical engineering (MS/BS from Shanghai Jiaotong University), and physics (PhD from Southeast University).