- Publications: Published 400+ papers in top journals and conferences, cited 26,000+ times with H-index of 82
- Patents: 563 patents (including 98 US patents), including a patent on Marginal Space Learning based heart chamber segmentation, which won the Thomas A. Edison Patent Award of New Jersey R&D Council in 2011
- Awards: Siemens Top+ Innovation Award in 2010, Techno-College Innovation Award of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS) in 2010, National Scientific and Technological Progress Award (2nd class) of China in 2003 (as a co-developer of an Asian OCR system)
- Academic Positions: IEEE Fellow, AIMBE Fellow, AAIA Fellow, Program Co-Chair of MICCAI 2021, Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging since 2018, Associate Editor of IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics from 2013 to 2018
Research Experience
- Jul. 2024 - Present: Professor, Westlake University, Hangzhou, China
- Jan. 2018 - Jul. 2024: Director and Distinguished Scientist of Tencent Jarvis Research Center, Shenzhen, China
- Aug. 2015 - Dec. 2017: Senior Key Expert -> Principal Key Expert (Research), Siemens Healthineers Technology Center, Princeton, New Jersey
- Jan. 2006 - Aug. 2015: Research Scientist -> Project Manager -> Senior Staff Scientist, Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, New Jersey
Education
- Ph.D.: Aug. 2001 - Dec. 2005, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, USA, Research topic: Document Image Analysis and Computer Vision, Advisor: Dr. David Doermann
- M.S.: Sept. 1998 - July 2001, Dept. of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Research topics: Form Recognition & Processing, Advisor: Prof. Xiaoqing Ding
- B.S.: Sept. 1993 - July 1998, Dept. of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Background
- Research Interests: AI in health, medical image analysis, computer vision, natural language processing, large language models
- Professional Field: Medical Artificial Intelligence, Document Image Analysis
- Brief Introduction: Currently a professor at Westlake University, previously worked at Siemens and Tencent, leading medical AI projects