Principal Investigator

Prof. Hao Chen
Prof. Hao Chen is Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, and Department of Life Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Director of the Medical Engineering Interdisciplinary Joint Innovation Center. He leads the Smart Lab focusing on developing trustworthy AI for healthcare. He received the Ph.D. degree from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 2017. He was a postdoctoral research fellow in CUHK previously. His research interests include medical large models, computational pathology, multimodal fusion, medical image analysis, computer-aided minimally invasive diagnosis and treatment, etc. He has published more than 100 papers (Google Scholar citations more than 35,000 times, h-index 79) in top journals and conferences such as Nature Biomedical Engineering, Nature Communications, Lancet Digital Health, Nature Machine Intelligence, Jama, MICCAI, IEEE-TMI, MIA, CVPR, ICCV, etc. He has been continuously selected as a Stanford University global top 2% scientist and a Clarivate Analytics global highly cited scientist. He has won the 2023 Asian Young Scientist Award, the second prize of the National Ministry of Education Excellent Achievement Award, the first prize of the Beijing Science and Technology Progress Award, and the 2019 MICCAI Young Scientist Impact Award, a top conference in artificial intelligence medical imaging. He serves as an editor of journals including IEEE TMI, TNNLS, J-BHI, and CMIG, and serves as an area chair and program committee member of multiple international conferences such as ICLR, CVPR, ACM MM, and MICCAI. He has led the team to win 15 international medical image analysis challenge championships.

Research Assistant Professors

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Dr. Xi Wang
vancy.wangxi (at) gmail.com
https://vancywx.github.io/
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Postdoctoral Fellows

Hua-jun Zhou's Photo
Dr. Hua-jun Zhou
zhouhuajun123 (at) 126.com
0000-0002-1419-5422
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Jun-lin Hou's Photo
Dr. Jun-lin Hou
csejlhou (at) ust.hk
https://houjunlin.github.io
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houjunlin
Fu-xiang Huang's Photo
Dr. Fu-xiang Huang
csfuxiangh (at) ust.hk
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Xin-rui Jiang's Photo
Dr. Xin-rui Jiang
csexrjiang (at) ust.hk
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Zi-yi Liu's Photo
Dr. Zi-yi Liu
cseziyiliu (at) ust.hk
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Hong-Yi Wang's Photo
Dr. Hong-Yi Wang
cswhywong (at) ust.hk
dootmaan.github.io
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dootmaan

PhD Students

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An-dong Tan
atanac (at) connect.ust.hk
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Hong-mei Wang's Photo
Hong-mei Wang
hwangfy (at) connect.ust.hk
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Jia-bo Ma's Photo
Jia-bo Ma
jmabq (at) connect.ust.hk
0000-0001-8532-4466
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Jia-xin Zhuang's Photo
Jia-xin Zhuang
jzhuangad (at) connect.ust.hk
https://jiaxinzhuang.github.io/
@jiaxinzhuang
jiaxinzhuang
Juyoung Bae's Photo
Juyoung Bae
jbaeaa (at) connect.ust.hk
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Ming-hao Wang (Co-supervision)'s Photo
Ming-hao Wang (Co-supervision)
mwangcx (at) connect.ust.hk
https://wmh1203.github.io
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Wen-qiang Li's Photo
Wen-qiang Li
wenqiang.li (at) connect.ust.hk
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Xiao-yu Zheng's Photo
Xiao-yu Zheng
xzhengbb (at) connect.ust.hk
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Yu Cai (Co-supervision)'s Photo
Yu Cai (Co-supervision)
yu.cai (at) connect.ust.hk
https://caiyu6666.github.io/
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Yu-yan Ruan (Co-supervision)'s Photo
Yu-yan Ruan (Co-supervision)
yruanaf (at) connect.ust.hk
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Ze-lin Qiu's Photo
Ze-lin Qiu
zqiuak (at) connect.ust.hk
Zheng-rui Guo's Photo
Zheng-rui Guo
zguobc (at) connect.ust.hk
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Lin-shan Wu's Photo
Lin-shan Wu
linshan.wu (at) connect.ust.hk
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Ru-yi Dai's Photo
Ru-yi Dai
rdai (at) connect.ust.hk
Shu Yang's Photo
Shu Yang
syangcw (at) connect.ust.hk
0000-0002-1761-9286
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Su-nan He's Photo
Su-nan He
shebd (at) connect.ust.hk
https://sunanhe.github.io/
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Wei-wen Zhang's Photo
Wei-wen Zhang
wzhangbu (at) connect.ust.hk
https://kevynutopia.github.io/
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Ye-quan Bie's Photo
Ye-quan Bie
ybie (at) connect.ust.hk
https://tommy-bie.github.io/
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Yi-hui Wang's Photo
Yi-hui Wang
ywangrm (at) connect.ust.hk
https://wyhsleep.github.io/
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Yu-xiang Nie's Photo
Yu-xiang Nie
yuxiang.nie (at) connect.ust.hk
https://jerrrynie.github.io/
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Zhi-yuan Cai's Photo
Zhi-yuan Cai
zcaiap (at) connect.ust.hk
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Jia-yi Zhu's Photo
Jia-yi Zhu
jzhu718 (at) connect.hkust-gz.edu.cn
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Ali Abdollahi
aaaab (at) connect.ust.hk
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Chen-Ran Huang's Photo
Chen-Ran Huang
chuangby (at) connect.ust.hk
De-Jia Cai's Photo
De-Jia Cai
dcaiac (at) connect.ust.hk
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Jia-Rui Ou-Yang's Photo
Jia-Rui Ou-Yang
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Ling Liang
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Qi-bo Yuan's Photo
Qi-bo Yuan
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Qian Zeng
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Yi-Hang Gao
ygaodh (at) connect.ust.hk
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Zhen-xiao Cao
zcaoav (at) connect.ust.hk
realalanc.github.io
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MPhil Students

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Chen-yu Zhao
cyzhao (at) connect.ust.hk
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Moo Hyun Son's Photo
Moo Hyun Son
mhson (at) connect.ust.hk
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Yi Xin's Photo
Yi Xin
yxinad (at) connect.ust.hk
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Yu-han Cheng's Photo
Yu-han Cheng
ychengbj (at) connect.hkust-gz.edu.cn
Chelsea-abab
Zhi-xuan Chen's Photo
Zhi-xuan Chen
zchenhi (at) connect.ust.hk
https://zhi-xuan-chen.github.io/
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zhi-xuan-chen

Undergraduate Students

Run-sheng Liu's Photo
Run-sheng Liu
rliuar (at) connect.ust.hk
https://onlylrs.github.io/
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Research Assistants

Nan-jiang Zhou's Photo
Nan-jiang Zhou
csezhounj (at) ust.hk

Alumni

Dr. Lu-yang Luo's Photo
Dr. Lu-yang Luo
cseluyang (at) ust.hk
https://llyxc.github.io/
0000-0002-7485-4151
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LLYXC
Current: Post-doctoral Fellow at Harvard University
Dr. Yi Lin's Photo
Dr. Yi Lin
yi.lin (at) connect.ust.hk
https://ianyilin.github.io/
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hust-linyi
Current: Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University
Hai-bo Jin's Photo
Hai-bo Jin
hjinag (at) connect.ust.hk
http://jhb86253817.github.io/
Google Scholar
Current: Research Fellow at DAMO Academy, Alibaba Group
Hao-xuan Che's Photo
Hao-xuan Che
hche (at) connect.ust.hk
https://chehx.github.io/
0000-0002-5844-1285
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chehx
Current: Research Fellow at Huawei
Jia-chen Zhao's Photo
Jia-chen Zhao
jiachenzhao (at) umass.edu
https://andotalao24.github.io/
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@jcz12856876
andotalao24
Current: PhD Student at Northeastern University
Si-yu Chen's Photo
Si-yu Chen
schenfo (at) connect.ust.hk
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Current: PhD Student at HKUST
Dr. Yu-ting He's Photo
Dr. Yu-ting He
yuting.he4 (at) case.edu
https://yutinghe-list.github.io/
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YutingHe-list
Current: Research Associate at Case Western Reserve University
Ru-shan Zhang's Photo
Ru-shan Zhang
rzhangbq (at) gatech.edu
https://rzhangbq.github.io/
rzhangbq
Current: PhD Student at Georgia Institute of Technology
Dr. Si-jun Meng's Photo
Dr. Si-jun Meng
Google Scholar
mengsj08
Current: Vice President of a Medical AI Innovation Startup at HKSTP
Ren-ao Yan's Photo
Ren-ao Yan
yanrenao3355 (at) 163.com
https://renaoyan.github.io/
0000-0002-2399-199X
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RenaoYan
Current: PhD Student at University of Washington
Dr. Si-cen Liu's Photo
Dr. Si-cen Liu
csesicen (at) ust.hk
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Current: Faculty Member at Shenzhen MSU-BIT University
Dr. Xue-feng Ni's Photo
Dr. Xue-feng Ni
csexuefeng (at) ust.hk
Xuefeng-Ni
Current: Faculty Member at Hunan University