- [2025.10] One paper accepted at IEEE TMI (Impact Factor 9.8). 
- [2025.10] Thrilled to serve on the SUNY AI Symposium Planning Committee! 
- [2025.09] One paper accepted at NeurIPS 2025. 
- [2025.09] One paper accepted at RSNA 2025 (Oral). 
- [2025.09] Invited to serve as Area Chair CVPR 2026. 
- [2025.08] One paper accepted at EMNLP 2025. 
- [2025.07] Thrilled to receive the Excellence in Teaching Award for Spring 2025. 
- [2025.07] Congratulations to my Ph.D. student, Qin Ren, on winning the MICCAI 2025 NIH Registration Grant! 
- [2025.06] Our work Ouroboros on cycle-consistent rendering via diffusion models is accepted at ICCV 2025. [Code] 
- [2025.06] Our work OTSurv, leveraging Optimal Transport for survival analysis, is accepted at MICCAI 2025. [Code] 
- [2025.06] Our paper “Uncovering Memorization Effect in the Presence of Spurious Correlations” has been formally accepted by Nature Communications. [Code] 
- [2025.05] One paper accepted at ACL 2025. 
- [2025.05] Our work CSR, a state-of-the-art shortening embedding models (image/text/multimodal) with sparse coding, is accepted at ICML 2025 (Oral, Top ~1%). [ Code 
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- [2025.04] Invited to serve as Area Chair NeurIPS 2025. 
- [2025.04] One paper accepted at AIME 2025. 
- [2025.04] One paper accepted at EMBC 2025 (Oral, Top Paper Award). 
- [2025.03] One paper accepted at ACM TKDD. 
- [2025.03] Our work UniHGKR, a universal retrieval-augmented generation framework, is accept at NAACL 2025 (Oral). [Code] 
- [2025.02] Invited to serve as Area Chair EMNLP 2025. 
- [2025.02] Invited to serve as Area Chair COLM 2025. 
- [2025.02] Invited as panel speaker at the AAAI Bridge: AI for Medicine and Healthcare. 
- [2025.02] Invited to serve on scientific committee for the 11th Workshop on Medical Computer Vision at CVPR 2025. 
- [2025.01] One paper accepted at Nature Reviews Bioengineering. 
- [2025.01] Invited to serve as Area Chair MICCAI 2025! 
- [2025.01] Thrilled to serve as Guest Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging! 
- [2024.12] One paper accepted at MedIA (Impact Factor 10.9). 
- [2024.12] One paper accepted at IEEE TMI (Impact Factor 8.9). 
- [2024.10] One paper accepted at Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics. 
- [2024.10] Thrilled to be recognized as IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI) Platinum Distinguished Reviewer (Highest award). 
- [2024.10] One paper accepted at MedIA (Impact Factor 10.9). 
- [2024.09] World’s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University. 
- [2024.09] Our paper “Mine yOur owN Anatomy: Revisiting Medical Image Segmentation with Extremely Limited Labels” has been formally accepted by IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (IEEE-TPAMI) (Impact Factor 20.8). [Code] 
- [2024.07] One paper accepted at BMVC 2024 (Oral). 
- [2024.06] Our paper “Medical image registration via neural fields” accepted by Medical Image Analysis (MedIA) (Impact Factor 10.9). Congrats to Shanlin, and all collaborators! 
- [2024.06] One paper accepted at MICCAI 2024. 
- [2024.04] One paper accepted at UAI 2024. 
- [2024.04] Privileged to be elected into Sigma Xi! 
- [2024.03] Thrilled to serve as Area Chair MICCAI 2024! 
- [2024.02] Our paper “Calibrating Multi-modal Representations: A Pursuit of Group Robustness without Annotations” has been accepted at CVPR 2024. [Code] 
- [2024.02] One paper accepted at CVPR 2024. 
- [2024.01] One paper accepted at ICLR 2024. 
- [2024.01] Thrilled to be recognized as WACV 2024 Outstanding Reviewer. 
- [2024.01] One paper accepted at Imaging Neuroscience. 
- [2023.12] One paper accepted at IEEE SaTML 2023. 
- [2023.11] Our paper “Segment Anything in Medical Images” has been formally accepted by Nature Communications. [Code] 
- [2023.10] Two papers accepted at WACV 2024. 
- [2023.10] One paper accepted at IEEE BIBM 2023. 
- [2023.10] Thrilled to be recognized as IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI) Platinum Distinguished Reviewer. 
- [2023.09] Our paper “Rethinking Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation: A Variance-Reduction Perspective” has been accepted at NeurIPS 2023! [Code] 
- [2023.09] Two papers accepted at NeurIPS 2023! 
- [2023.09] One paper accepted at npj Digital Medicine (Impact Factor 15.357). 
- [2023.09] One paper accepted at Physics in Medicine and Biology. 
- [2023.07] One paper accepted at MICCAI-MLCN 2023. 
- [2023.06] Four papers accepted at IEEE NSS-MIC-RTSD 2023 (1 Oral). 
- [2023.06] Six papers accepted at MICCAI 2023. 
- [2023.05] One paper accepted at Investigative Radiology (Impact Factor: 10.065). 
- [2023.05] Three papers early accepted at MICCAI 2023! 
- [2023.05] Two papers accepted at ACL 2023. 
- [2023.02] Our paper “Bootstrapping Semi-supervised Medical Image Segmentation with Anatomical-aware Contrastive Distillation” has been accepted at IPMI 2023. [Code] 
- [2023.02] One paper accepted at IPMI 2023. 
- [2023.01] One paper accepted at Medical Physics. 
- [2022.10] One paper accepted at WACV 2023. 
- [2022.09] Our paper “Class-Aware Adversarial Transformers for Medical Image Segmentation” has been accepted at NeurIPS 2022! 
- [2022.09] Two papers accepted at NeurIPS 2022! 
- [2022.08] Gave a talk at Meta AI Research (FAIR) Eastcoast Vision Group about Contrastive Learning. 
- [2022.08] Very honored to be recognized as IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI) Platinum Distinguished Reviewer. 
- [2022.08] One paper accepted at WACV 2023. 
- [2022.07] One paper accepted at MICCAI-STACOM 2022. 
- [2022.07] One paper accepted at MICCAI-DeCaF 2022. 
- [2022.07] One paper accepted at MICCAI-DGM4MICCAI 2022. 
- [2022.06] Two papers accepted at MICCAI 2022. 
- [2022.05] One paper early accepted at MICCAI 2022! 
- [2022.04] One paper accepted at NAACL 2022. 
- [2022.03] Our paper “SimCVD: Simple Contrastive Voxel-Wise Representation Distillation for Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation” has been formally accepted by IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (IEEE-TMI) (Impact Factor: 10.048). 
- [2022.03] I will be interning at Facebook AI Research (FAIR), New York, starting from June 2022.
 
- [2022.03] One paper accepted at ICLR-PAIR2Struct 2022. 
- [2022.02] Very proud to be recognized as a Distinguished Referee for Medical Physics. 
- [2021.12] Awarded 2021 - 2022 Yale Fellowship. 
- [2021.12] One paper accepted at AAAI 2022. 
- [2021.11] One paper has been formally accepted by IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (IEEE-TPAMI) (Impact Factor 17.861). 
- [2021.10] One paper accepted at WACV 2022. 
- [2021.09] One paper accepted at NeurIPS 2021. 
- [2021.08] One paper accepted at EMNLP 2021. 
- [2021.06] Three papers accepted at Interspeech 2021. 
- [2021.05] Glad to be recognized as CVPR 2021 outstanding reviewer. 
- [2021.04] One paper accepted at IJCAI 2021 (Acceptance Rate: 13.9%). 
- [2021.03] Very proud to be recognized as Medical Physics Journal Distinguished Reviewer. 
- [2021.02] Very honored to be recognized as IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI) Distinguished Reviewer. 
- [2021.01] Two papers accepted at IEEE-ICASSP 2021. 
- [2021.01] One paper accepted at ICLR 2021 (Spotlight). 
- [2020.11] Awarded 2020 - 2021 Yale Fellowship. 
- [2020.10] Proud to be an Outstanding Reviewer for MICCAI 2020. 
- [2020.09] We have released all the training/testing Code and pretrained models for NuSeT, a high quality Tool box for Cell Segmentation and Analysis. 
- [2020.08] One paper accepted at MICCAI-MIL3ID 2020. 
- [2020.07] One paper accepted at PLOS Computational Biology. 
- [2019.10] Awarded 2019 - 2020 Yale Fellowship. 
- [2019.09] Three full papers accepted at Proceedings of SPIE. 
- [2019.06] Our paper “Recovery of Latent Vectors and Exploration of Latent Space from StyleGAN” received the Stanford CS230 Final Project Prize, mentored by Prof. Andrew Ng. 
- [2019.06] Our paper “CT Super-resolution GAN Constrained by the Identical, Residual, and Cycle Learning Ensemble(GAN-CIRCLE)” has been formally accepted by IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (IEEE-TMI) (Impact Factor: 10.048). [Code] 
- [2019.01] One papers accepted at Medical Physics.