Dr. Jun Ni is the founder and President of Medix Computing LLC, a private consulting company focused on providing computational solutions for private and public organizations. He has experiences ranging from research in Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) to delivering technical consulting solutions for various customers across universities and private companies.
Jun was formerly a faculty member at the University of Iowa, holding professorships in Radiology, Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering. His primary focus throughout his 30 years of experience was computational science and engineering, specifically working with mathematical modeling and simulation, data analysis and visualization, and computing system architectural design. During that time, Dr. Ni also worked as a senior computing consultant, computational scientist and manager for the university. He has previously served on the committee of the Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computation and the Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation. From 2016, he holds chair professor at Shanghai Sanda University and the editor-in-chief of International Journal of Computational Medicine and Healthcare, UK and China Medical Devices Journal in healthcare data engineering.
In addition to his previous academic work, Jun has collaborated with and consulted for both Microsoft and Intel in the areas of High Performance Computing (HPC) based medical imaging and nanotechnology since 2007. Other collaborations include NVidia, Toshiba, and IBM. He founded Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics Education Society (STEMES), a non-profit organization to advocate and promote STEM activities for communities and societies in USA.
Dr. Jun Ni received a BS in Naval Architecture and Shipbuilding from Harbin Engineering University in 1982, a MS in Power Machinery Engineering from Shanghai Jiaotong University in 1984, and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Iowa in 1991. These were followed by postdoc experiences at The University of Iowa and Purdue University in 1993 and 1994.