Hao Chen
Scholar

Hao Chen

Google Scholar ID: Z_t5DjwAAAAJ
Assistant Professor, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Large ModelComputational PathologyMedical Image AnalysisMultimodalAI for Science
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
31,559
 
H-index
76
 
i10-index
198
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
5
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Holds over a dozen patents in AI and medical image analysis
  • Recipient of the HKUST Engineering Young Investigator Research Award 2024–25
  • Best Paper Award at MIAR 2016, CUHK Faculty Outstanding Thesis Award 2017, MICCAI Young Scientist Publication Impact Award 2019
  • Named to Forbes China 30 Under 30
  • Asian Young Scientist Fellowship awardee
  • Led teams to win 15+ international grand challenges, including the RSNA Pneumonia Screening Challenge
  • Recent publications in top venues: Nature Biomedical Engineering, Nature Communications, IEEE TMI, Medical Image Analysis, CVPR, ICML, ICCV, MICCAI
  • Associate Editor of IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering (RBME)
  • Area Chair for ICLR 2026, CVPR 2026, and MICCAI 2025
Background
  • Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, and Division of Life Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
  • IEEE Senior Member
  • Leads the Smart Lab focusing on AI in healthcare
  • Director of the Collaboration Center for Medical and Engineering Innovation and Associate Director of the Center of Medical Imaging and Analysis at HKUST
  • Research interests include Large and Trustworthy AI for healthcare applications such as Computational Pathology, Multi-omics, and XR for Computer-Assisted Intervention