Summary
Yunxiang Li is a PhD candidate in Medical Physics at UT Southwestern Medical Center with six years of experience at the intersection of computer vision and clinical imaging. As first author on ChatDoctor, he led the first medical-domain fine-tuning of LLaMA, a project that earned 3.6k GitHub stars and 800+ citations, demonstrating both research impact and open-source reach. His research spans diffusion-based medical image translation, SAM-enhanced segmentation, and implicit neural representations for MRI super-resolution and DWI denoising and correction. He has translated algorithms into production-ready tools deployed in UTSW Radiation Oncology, showing a rare ability to move from novel methods to clinical use. A visiting scholar background and a computer science undergraduate foundation underpin his multidisciplinary approach to problems. He combines strong academic publication metrics with practical deployment experience, making him effective at bridging research and clinical application.
6 years of coding experience
Visiting Student, Visiting Student at University of Adelaide
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, BME (Medical Physics), Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, BME (Medical Physics) at UT Southwestern Medical Center
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Hangzhou Dianzi University