Yu Tian
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
| Feb, 2026 | One paper on audio-visual segmentation is accepted in CVPR 2026 Findings. Check more here. |
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| Jan, 2026 | We introduce Medical SAM3, a text-prompt–based foundation model for medical image segmentation that can zero-shot segment diverse tissues across multiple medical imaging modalities. Check more here. |
| Dec, 2025 | We introduce a medical world model that simulate the disease trajectories of cancer patients and envisions precision medicine for personalized treatment management. Check more here. |
| Oct, 2025 | One paper on weakly supervised pathology classification is accepted to Journal of Medical Imaging (JMI). Check out the paper and codes here. |
| Oct, 2025 | One paper on benchmarking group fairness in federated medical imaging is accepted to IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI). Check out the paper here, dataset and code here. |