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POSITIONS HELD

[08/2025-present]
Wake Forest University
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science
Robert J. Plemmons Fellow, Andrew Sabin Family Center for Environment and Sustainability
Wake Forest University
[09/2022-07/2024]
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Founding President of SIAM Student Chapter at City University of Hong Kong
SIAM

EDUCATION

[09/2021-07/2025]
Ph.D. in Mathematics
City University of Hong Kong & Hong Kong Centre for Cerebro-Cardiovascular Health Engineering
Research focuses on machine learning and deep learning in computer vision, with applications in medicine and remote sensing.
Ph.D. in Mathematics
[09/2024-03/2025]
Visiting DPhil Student in Biomedical Engineering
University of Oxford
Research focuses on deep learning-based ultrasound video analysis.
Ph.D. in Mathematics
[09/2017-07/2021]
B.S. in Computing Mathematics
City University of Hong Kong
First Class Honours, with a minor in Computer Science.
B.S. in Computing Mathematics
[02/2020-07/2020]
Visiting B.S. in Applied Mathematics
Delft University of Technology
Study in Applied Mathematics.
Visiting B.S. in Applied Mathematics

RECENT NEWS

[11/2025]
Gave a seminar talk titled "Efficient Deep Learning and Spatial Modeling for Mapping Tropical Forest Canopies" at the Department of Computer Science, Wake Forest University.
[06/2025]
The paper "Efficient Localization and Spatial Distribution Modeling of Canopy Palms Using UAV Imagery" was accepted by IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens..
[06/2025]
The paper "Toward Efficient UAV-Based Small Object Detection: A Lightweight Network with Enhanced Feature Fusion" was accepted by Remote Sens..
[05/2025]
The paper "Latent Motion Profiling for Annotation-free Cardiac Phase Detection in Adult and Fetal Echocardiography Videos" was accepted by MICCAI 2025.
[05/2025]
The paper "Blind Restoration of High-Resolution Ultrasound Video" was accepted by MICCAI 2025.
[04/2025]
The paper "Detection and Geographic Localization of Natural Objects in the Wild: A Case Study on Palms" was accepted by IJCAI 2025.

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