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