Education, Funding & Invited Talks

Education/Training

  • 8/2024-5/2025; Research Fellow; University of Pennsylvania
  • Advised by: Prof. Christos Davatzikos and Prof. MacLean Nasrallah
  • 8/2022-7/2024; Postdoctoral Research Fellow; Harvard University
  • Advised by: Prof. Mengyu Wang and Prof. Tobias Elze
  • 6/2019-6/2022; PhD; Computer Science; Australian Institute for Machine Learning; University of Adelaide
  • PhD thesis: Anomaly Detection in Computer Vision and Medical Imaging.
  • Advised by: Prof. Gustavo Carneiro.
  • Awarded University of Adelaide ECMS Research Scholarship
  • 12/2018; BSc (First-Class Honours); Computer Science; University of Adelaide, Australia; GPA 7.0/7.0
  • Thesis: Deep Learning Approach for Five-class Polyp Detection and Classification
  • Completing the four–year bachelor’s degree in three years

Invited Talks

  • Panellist keynote speaker at CV4CHL workshop at CVPR 2026
  • Invited talk on trustworthy AI for medical imaging at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. – May, 2024
  • Invited talk on trustworthy AI at Washington State University. – March, 2024
  • Invited talk on medical AI at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York. – Jan, 2024
  • Invited talk on fairness learning at HIT Webinar.
  • Invited talk on fairness learning at Suzhou Institute for Advanced Study, USTC.
  • Selected as one of the five researchers to give a presentation about AI for vision science on Fellow’s Recognition Day of Harvard Ophthalmology Department.
  • Co-organising and presenting the CVPR 2023 tutorial ‘Recent Advances in Anomaly Detection’.
  • Invited talk at IJCAI Workshop on “AI for Anomalies and Novelties” 2021 about weakly supervised video anomaly detection.
  • Invited talk at GESA Research Workshop 2022 about Anomaly Detection in Medical Imaging.

Research Funding

  • Florida Department of Health (FDOH) Florida Cancer Innovation Fund
  • Kidney-VLM: An AI-Driven Diagnostic Platform for Early and Accurate Kidney-Cancer Detection in Florida
  • Role: Co-PI; PI: Pegah Khosravi
  • Period: 08/01/26 – 07/31/27; Total funds: US$ 974,680.20
  • Florida Department of Health (FDOH) Florida Cancer Innovation Fund
  • MammoChat: An AI-Driven Platform for Personalized Breast Health Support
  • Role: Co-I (co-lead AI team); PI: Jane Gibson
  • Period: 09/16/25 – 08/31/26; Total funds: US$ 1,998,935.00