Francis Chen
Research Scientist at Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Summary
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SeniorZhen Chen is a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Data Science and AI at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University with eight years of research experience bridging AI and healthcare. He completed a PhD in Electrical Engineering at City University of Hong Kong and held postdoctoral and faculty roles at Yale and the Hong Kong Institute of Science & Innovation, CAS, developing generalizable, agentic, and multimodal AI systems for clinical use. His work appears in top venues such as IEEE TPAMI, TMI, MedIA, MICCAI and NeurIPS, and he earned the Hong Kong Young Scientist Award 2023 and the MICCAI 2022 Young Scientist Award. An active community contributor, he serves as an Area Chair for MICCAI and has been a Distinguished Reviewer for IEEE TMI for three consecutive years. Notably, his trajectory blends strong engineering roots—including an early research internship at Tencent and an Automation Elite undergraduate background—with a clear focus on translating foundational AI advances into clinical impact.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (23)
wavelet9
super-resolution8
segmentation6
rss6
lua5
self-attention5
wechat5
image-analysis5
pytorch4
deep-learning4
tensorflow4
ssim4
medical-image-segmentation4
classification3
multistage3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
franciszchen/PTree-Net
Dec 2020 - Mar 2021
The source code of 'Diagnose Like A Pathologist: Weakly-Supervised Pathologist-Tree Network for Slide-Level Immunohistochemical Scoring' (AAAI 2021).
Contributions:21 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
CityU-AIM-Group/PRR-FL
Jun 2021 - Mar 2022
Contributions:20 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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