Won C. Bae is an Associate Professor at the Department of Radiology at the University of California-San Diego (UCSD). He received his Ph.D. in Bioengineering from UCSD in 2004. He received a UC Faculty Fellowship in Bioengineering from 2004-2006 and an NIH F32 Postdoctoral Fellowship in Radiology at UCSD from 2006–2010. His research interests include quantitative and novel imaging evaluation of musculoskeletal diseases, including low back pain and knee osteoarthritis. His other interests include neurodegenerative diseases and vascular imaging. He has over 100 publications in the areas of cartilage biomechanics, osteoarthritis, ultrashort echo time (UTE) MRI, quantitative MRI, perfusion imaging, and artificial intelligence.