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Education

• 2017.09 - 2023.05, Ph.D. in Computer Science, Utah State University.
• 2013.09 - 2017.06, B.S. in Management Information Systems, Tianjin University of Technology.

Work Experience

• Fall 2023 - present:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Department of Computer Science and Technology
  • Kean University
• Fall 2017 - Spring 2023:
  • Teaching Assistant
  • Department of Computer Science
  • Utah State University
• Summer 2020, 2022:
  • Research Assistant
  • Department of Computer Science
  • Utah State University

Research Interests

• Deep Learning
• Computer Vision
• Medical Image Analysis

Grants

External

• NSF 25-514 NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Program (S-STEM), $2,000,000, Co-Principal Investigator (PI: Dr. Daehan Kawk; Co-PIs: Drs. Meng Xu, Bin Hu, Ching-Yu Huang, and Patricia Morreale), 10/01/2026 to 09/30/2032.
• AIM-AHEAD Research Fellowship Program Cohort 4, Deep Learning Applications for Early Detection of Breast Cancer in Mammography, $51,840, Principal Investigator, 10/1/2025 to 10/1/2026.$203,981, Co-Principal Investigator (with PI Dr. Kuan Huang), 09/01/2024 to 08/31/2026.
• NSF 24-536 Computer and Information Science and Engineering Research Expansion Program, Collaborative Research: CISE MSI: RCBP: SCH: Advancing Breast-Cancer Detection in Ultrasound Imaging through Active- and Weakly-Supervised Learning, $203,981, Co-Principal Investigator (with PI Dr. Kuan Huang), 09/01/2024 to 08/31/2026.
• CAHSI-Google Institutional Research Program Awards, Building a Trustworthy Deep Learning Model for Urban-Scene Image Segmentation: Robustness and Uncertainty Analysis, $80,000 and $20,000 Google Cloud Platform credits, Principal Investigator, 09/01/2024 to 08/31/2025.

Internal

• Kean IST Fellowship, Building a Trustworthy Deep Learning Model for UrbanScene Image Segmentation, $10,000, Principal Investigator, 9/1/2025 to 5/1/2026.
• WKU-KU Special Programs (International Collaborative Research Programs), Investigation of Deep Learning-Generated Images as Data Source for Robust Medical Image Segmentation, $42,159, Collaborator, 2025 to 2028.
• Students Partnering with Faculty (SpF) at Kean University, Trustworthy Weakly Supervised Breast Cancer Detection in Ultrasound Imaging, $17,000, Principal Investigator, 6/15/2024 to 5/6/2025.
• Graduate Research and Creative Opportunities Grant at Utah State University, A Regional-Attentive Multi-Task Learning Framework for Breast Ultrasound Image Segmentation and Classification, $1,000, Principal Investigator, 9/1/2021 to 8/31/2022.