Research
We develop AI for Life Engineering. Our research investigates the extent to which an individual’s behavior can be computationally modeled and reproduced across scales, contexts, and over time. These efforts involve building AI models to characterize the mechanisms underlying individual behavior and enable its faithful emulation.
Biography
I joined Tsinghua University as a tenure-track assistant professor and principal investigator in biomedical AI.
Previously, I served as the founding member and head of AI systems at a2z Radiology AI,
and as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University with Professor Pranav Rajpurkar.
I obtained my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Hong Kong, advised by Professor Yizhou Yu.
I spent two years at Tencent as a research scientist, and received degrees from Nanjing University and Wuhan University.
Recent News
May 2026
One paper was accepted by NEJM AI.
April 2026
One paper was accepted by ICML. One paper was accepted by ACL 2026.
Mar 2026
MedVersa was published online in NEJM AI. MedVersa is a multimodal generalist model for diverse medical imaging tasks.
Feb 2026
One paper was accepted by Nature Biomedical Engineering. Stay tuned for more details.
Jan 2026
AFLoc was published online in Nature Biomedical Engineering. AFLoc is a multimodal vision–language model for generalizable annotation-free pathology localization.
New publications
Lab Members
Research Students & Staff (Tsinghua)
Bohan Xia
2026–Present · PhD @ THU
Mingrui Shao
2026–Present · MS @ THU
Co-advised Members
Chenyu Lian
2024–Present · PhD @ HKPU
ICLR'23
TMI'25
MICCAI'25
MICCAI'26
ICML'26
Jie Lin
2025–Present · PhD @ Xiamen University
Alumni
Hao Yang
PhD @ CAS
Nature Biomedical Engineering'26
Yuan Gao
PhD @ Netherlands Cancer Institute
Nature Communications'24
MICCAI'24
JBHI'25
Xing Wang
PhD @ Netherlands Cancer Institute
Nature Communications'25
Weijian Huang
PhD @ CAS
Nature Communications'24
Chixiang Lu
Past: UG @ HUST · Now: PhD @ HKU
ICCV'21
IPMI'21
TMI'22
TPAMI'23
Meng Lou
Past: Deepwise · Now: PhD @ HKU
TNNLS'25
Neural Netw.'25
Jiarun Liu
PhD @ CAS
MICCAI'24
TMI'25
Yunxiang Fu
Past: UG @ HKU · Now: PhD @ HKU
ICLR'23
Jiaxin Wu
Past: UG @ HKU · Now: Software Engineer @ UBS
Zixuan Shan
Past: UG @ HKU · Now: MS @ NYU
