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 24,000 times with an h-index of 77. 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

Ph.D Students
  • Jiale Zhou

    Beihang University

  • Chengyu Wu

    Shandong University

Research Assistants
  • Hong Huang

    Shandong University

  • Hongze Zhu

    Anhui University of Technology

  • 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

  • Qi Chen

    University of Science and Technology of China

  • Zhijian Wu

    East China Normal University

  • Zhipeng Deng

    Institute of Science Tokyo

  • Weixiang Sun

    Northeastern University

  • Qian Yang

    Southern University of Science and Technology

  • Zhiyu Li

    Tsinghua University

  • Yi Zhang

    Southern University of Science and Technology

  • Jiashuai Liu

    Xi'an Jiaotong University

  • Yingjia Shang

    Heilongjiang University

Lab Manager
  • Yihui Zhang

    Hangzhou Normal University

Alumni
Name Current Affiliation Visiting Period
Shikun Li The Chinese University of Hong Kong Aug 2024 - Nov 2024