Principal Investigator
Yefeng Zheng, PH.D.

School of Engineering

Medical Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

Yefeng Zheng was born in the city of Jiangshan, Zhejiang Province, in 1975. He received B.E. and M.E. degrees from the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 1998 and 2001, respectively, and a Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, USA in 2005. From 2006 to 2017, he worked at Siemens Corporate Research in Princeton, New Jersey, USA on medical image analysis. From 2018 to 2024, he was a Distinguished Scientist and Director of Tencent Jarvis Lab, leading the company's initiative on medical artificial intelligence. He joined Westlake University in July 2024 as a tenured full professor. He has invented 90+ US patents and published 300+ papers, which have been cited more than 26,000 times with an h-index of 81. He is a Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a Fellow of American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), and an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. He was a Program Co-Chair of International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2021, served as an area chair for various top conferences in artificial intelligence (e.g., NeurIPS, AAAI, IJCAI, and MICCAI).

Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Meihong Pan

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  • Zhipeng Deng

    Institute of Science Tokyo

  • Zhijian Wu

    East China Normal University

Ph.D Students
  • Jiale Zhou

    Beihang University

  • Chengyu Wu

    Shandong University

  • Hongze Zhu

    Anhui University of Technology

Research Assistants
  • Jiawei Wu

    East China Normal University

  • Wenfang Sun

    University of Science and Technology of China

Visiting Students
  • Wentian Zhang

    University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

  • Jiashuai Liu

    Xi'an Jiaotong University

  • Yingjia Shang

    Heilongjiang University

  • Hongtao Wu

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

  • Furong Li

    Lanzhou University

  • Yumin Zhang

    Newcastle University

  • Jiayang Wu

    Jinan University

  • Xiangyu Sun

    University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

  • Xun Lin

    Beihang University

  • Shujun Xia

    City University of Hong Kong

Lab Manager
  • Yihui Zhang

    Hangzhou Normal University

Alumni
Name Current Affiliation Visiting Period
Shikun Li The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Postdoc Aug 2024 - Nov 2024
Hong Huang Simon Fraser University, Phd Aug 2024 - Apr 2025
Xianbing Zhao Jiangnan University, AP Mar 2025 - May 2025
Jiaxuan Jiang Hong Kong Baptist University, Phd Feb 2025 - May 2025
Yifeng Wu SUSTech, Phd Feb 2025 - Jun 2025
Qi Chen Johns Hopkins University, Phd Sept 2024 - Jul 2025
Yaoye Song Muyuan Laboratory, Assistant Researcher Apr 2025 - Jun 2025