Kangning Cui
Computer Vision • Signal Processing • LLM • Geoscience • Healthcare

Kangning Cui

I develop efficient machine learning methods across computer vision, signal processing, large language models, geoscience, and healthcare.

I would be delighted to connect about collaborations, ideas, and opportunities to work together.

Wake Forest University Incoming CityU-DG
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Kangning Cui

Roles

2026–
City University of Hong Kong (Dongguan)
Incoming Assistant Professor
2025–Present
Wake Forest University
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science
2025–Present
Andrew Sabin Family Center for Environment and Sustainability
Robert J. Plemmons Fellow
2022–2024
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Founding President, SIAM Student Chapter at CityU

Education

2021–2025
Ph.D. in Mathematics
City University of Hong Kong & Hong Kong Centre for Cerebro-Cardiovascular Health Engineering

Research in machine learning and computer vision for medicine and remote sensing, advised by Prof. Raymond H. Chan and Prof. Jean-Michel Morel.

2024–2025
Visiting DPhil Student in Biomedical Engineering
University of Oxford

Research in ultrasound video analysis and biomedical imaging, advised by Prof. Alison Noble.

2017–2021
B.S. in Computing Mathematics
City University of Hong Kong

Training in computing mathematics with First Class Honours and a minor in Computer Science.

2020
Visiting B.S. in Applied Mathematics
Delft University of Technology

Exchange study in applied mathematics in the Netherlands.

Recent News

[04/2026]
The paper "Learning Where to Embed: Noise-Aware Positional Embedding for Query Retrieval in Small-Object Detection" was accepted by ICMR 2026.
[03/2026]
The paper "From Orthomosaics to Raw UAV Imagery: Enhancing Palm Detection and Crown-Center Localization" was accepted by IGARSS 2026.
[03/2026]
The paper "Superpixel-level Hypergraph Regularized Multi-view Clustering for Hyperspectral Images" was accepted by IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Obs. Remote Sens..
[01/2026]
The paper "Center-guided Classifier for Semantic Segmentation of Remote Sensing Images" was accepted by IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens..
[01/2026]
The paper "Cott-ADNet: Lightweight Real-Time Cotton Boll and Flower Detection Under Field Conditions" was accepted by WACV HARVEST Workshop.
[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.