Yu Tian

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Yu Tian is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at University of Central Florida (UCF), with a joint appointment in the Department of Clinical Sciences at the College of Medicine. He is also affiliated with the UCF Institute of Artificial Intelligence and directs the AI & Imaging in Medicine (AIM) Research Lab. Before joining UCF in 2025, Dr. Tian was a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania. He completed both his Ph.D. (2019-2022) and his B.Sc. with First Class Honours in Computer Science at the Australian Institute for Machine Learning (AIML), Adelaide University.

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News

Oct, 2026 Honored to be named among the Stanford/Elsevier World’s Top 2% Scientists (2026).
Oct, 2026 Honored to serve as an Area Chair for AISTATS 2027!
Sep, 2026 One paper on mitigating object hallucination in large vision-language models is accepted at NeurIPS 2026! Check out the paper.
Sep, 2026 Honored to be selected as a 2026 ASEMFL Rising Star in Medicine!
Jul, 2026 Our paper on an auditable foundation model for radiology is published in Nature Biomedical Engineering. Check out the paper and code.