Cheng Huang

Cheng Huang, Ph.D. 🍊

🚀 I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis.

I received my Ph.D. degree from Southern Methodist University on November 18, 2025. I am the first, and also currently, the only person in the university history to complete the Ph.D. program in just two years. Prior to that, I received my M.Sc's degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2022 and my B.Eng's degree from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in 2020.

✨✨✨ I am currently on the job market and welcome any opportunities or discussions. Please feel free to reach out if there is a potential fit. ✨✨✨

My long-term vision is to advance Ophthalmology AI by building clinically grounded, trustworthy, and multimodal intelligence systems. I frame this mission through the Hippocrates paradigm:

I. Biomarker Intelligence

Discovering specific biomarkers from multimodal medical data, like fundus, OCT, OCTA, and clinical metadata through robust and interpretable AI.

II. Clinically Aligned Generation

Developing multimodal report-generation and decision-support models that integrate imaging, physiology, and language to produce clinically reliable outputs.

III. Diagnostic System

Building agentic medical AI systems with reasoning, memory, and self-improving capabilities to support longitudinal disease progression modeling and intervention.

News

[2026/09]🔥🔥🔥 1 paper was accepted by IEEE BIBM 2026!
[2026/08]🔥🔥🔥 1 paper was accepted by EMNLP 2026 (Finding)!
[2026/07]🥳🥳🥳 Our paper "Fair-Eye Net: A Fair, Trustworthy, Multimodal Integrated Glaucoma Full Chain AI System" won the Best Paper Award at IEEE 48th EMBC 2026! 🥳🥳🥳
[2026/05] 2 papers was accepted by IEEE PRAI!
[2026/04]🔥🔥🔥 3 papers was accepted by IEEE 48th EMBC!
[2026/01]🔥🔥🔥 1 paper was accepted by IEEE 51st ICASSP!
[2026/01] 1 paper was accepted by BNNIO 2026!

[2025/11]🥳🥳🥳 I successfully defended Ph.D. dissertation.

[2025/11]🥳🥳🥳 I have been nominated to attend the Nobel Prize and its conference!

[2025/10]🔥🔥🔥 We have just released the survey: Tibetan Language and AI: A Comprehensive Survey of Resources, Methods and Challenges.

[2025/09]1 paper was accepted by IEEE 25th BIBE!

[2025/08]🚀🚀🚀 1 paper was accepted by EMNLP 2025!

[2025/07]🔥🔥🔥 1 paper was accepted by ICONIP 2025!

[2025/05]🥳🥳🥳 I was selected as the outstanding graduate student of the Department of computer science!

[2025/05]🥳🥳🥳 I passed my mid-term PhD defense!

[2025/04]🔥🔥🔥 2 papers are accepted by IEEE 47th EMBC

[2025/03]1 paper is accepted by IEEE Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics!

[2024/11]🥳🥳🥳 I have passed my Ph.D. qualifying exams and am now a Ph.D. candidate rather than a Ph.D. student.

[2024/11]1 paper is accepted by IEEE ICNC 2024.

[2023/12]🔥🔥🔥 2 papers are accepted by AAAI 2024 and its Workshop.

[2023/12]1 paper is accepted by Applied and Computational Engineering and is selected as the cover paper.

[2023/08]🚀🚀🚀 Book "Neuromorphic Circuits for Nanoscale Devices" has been published (ISBN: 9787111704119).

[2023/07]🔥🔥🔥 1 paper is accepted by IEEE ICTAI 2023.

[2022/12]I have officially graduated with my master's degree!

[2022/05]🚀🚀🚀 1 paper is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement and is selected as the cover paper.

[2021/06]🚀🚀🚀 2 papers are accepted by IEEE PRAI 2021 and both of them won the Excellent Presentation Award.

[2020/08]1 paper is accepted by IEEE CDS 2020.

[2020/07]1 paper is accepted by IEEE ICVRV 2020.

[2020/07]1 paper is accepted by ACM ICRAI 2020.

[2020/06]I have officially graduated with my bachelor's degree!

[2020/06]🥳🥳🥳 My undergraduate thesis was selected as an Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis (5/710).

[2020/05]🔥🔥🔥 1 paper is accepted by IEEE 20th ICCT 2020.

Education

Southern Methodist University, USA Ph.D. in Computer Science • Sep. 2023 - Dec. 2025
Advisor: Prof. Jia Zhang Research Direction: Ophthalmology AI

Work

Washington University in St. Louis, USA Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Genetics • Sep. 2026 - Now
Advisor: Prof. Guanghua Xiao & Prof. Yang Xie Research Direction: Digital Health & AI

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA

Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Health Data Science & Biostatistics • Jun. 2026 - Aug. 2026
Advisor: Prof. Wenqi Shi Research Direction: Medical AI

Research Associate
Department of Ophthalmology • Sep. 2024 - May. 2026
Advisor: Dr. Karanjit Kooner & Prof. Jui-Kai Wang Research Direction: OCTA Imaging

Research Scientist
Department of Ophthalmology • Jun. 2024 - Aug. 2024
Advisor: Dr. Karanjit Kooner Research Direction: Medical Imaging in Glaucoma

ZenWeave AI, USA Senior Research Scientist & Co-founder
Chief Technology Executive Team • Jan. 2026 - Now
Collaboration: Jingxi Qiu Research Direction: Quantitative Finance

Southern Methodist University, USA

Research Assistant
Department of Computer Science • Jan. 2024 - Dec. 2025
Advisor: Prof. Jia Zhang Research Direction: AI For Diagnosis & Treatment of Glaucoma

Teaching Assistant
Department of Computer Science • Aug. 2023 - Dec. 2023
Supervisor: Prof. Michael Hahsler Course: CS 2341, Data Structure

National Aeronautics and Space Administration, USA Research Fellow
Headquarters • Jan. 2024 - Dec. 2025
Advisor: Dr. Tsengdar Lee Confidential Research: Remote Sensing

Tsinghua University, China Research Associate
Department of Electronic Engineering • Mar. 2021 - Jul. 2021
Advisor: Prof. Huazhong Yang & Prof. Lu Zhang Research Direction: AI Chips Design, Electronic Design Automation

Sichuan Electric Power Design & Consulting Co.,Ltd., China Telecommunication & SCADA Design Engineer
Department of Telecommunication Engineering • Jan. 2019 - Jul. 2019
Job Responsibility: 5G Station Development

Talk

From Digital Clones to Next-Generation AI Systems SoftStone Group Headquarters • Jan. 17. 2026, 16:30 pm - 18:00 pm
Building 16, No. 10 Xibeiwang East Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100193, China

Academic Service

Chair / Co-Chair

IEEE PRAI '25/26 IEEE EMBC '26

Committee

AAAI '26/27 IEEE PRAI '25/26

Conference Reviewer

AAAI '26/27 CVPR '25/26 MICCAI '25/26 ICME '25/26 IEEE PRAI '25/26 IEEE EMBC '26 NLPCC '26 ACML '26 IEEE BIBE '25 ICONIP '25

Journal Reviewer

IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine American Journal of Diagnostic Imaging Journal of Computer Sciences and Informatics The Journal of Supercomputing Digital Health IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics Frontiers in Radiology

Personal Interest

Anime: Dragon Ball Series
Hobby: Skiing, Fitness, Off-Roading, Hunting, Traveling
Motto: Ich werde das unvollendete Werk Jesu Christi vollenden.