Research Outreaches
IEEE Senior Member (since 2013)
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Interim Senior Area Editor (SAE) for IEEE Trans. on Medical Imaging, 2025-
Editorial Board Member for Medical Image Analysis (MedIA), 2023-
Editorial Board Member for Meta-Radiology, 2023-
Associate Editor for Machine Intelligence Research (MIR), 2025-
Associate Editor for IEEE Trans. on Medical Imaging (IEEE TMI), 2021-
Associate Editor for Pattern Recognition (PR), 2021-2025
Associate Editor for ACM Computing Surveys (ACM CSUR), 2022-2024
Associate Editor for Neurocomputing (Elsevier), 2020-2022
MICCAI Workshop Chair for International Conference on Medical Image Computing And Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2025, Daejeon, Korea; Award Committee for MICCAI Doctoral Consortium 2025
Area Chair for CVPR2026
Area Chair for NeurIPS2025
Area Chair for CVPR2025
Area Chair for ICLR2025
Area Chair for ECCV2024, Milan, Italy
Area Chair for MICCAI2024, Marrakech, Morocco
Senior PC for AAAI2024, Vancouver, Canada
Senior PC for AAAI2023, Washington DC, USA
Area Chair for MICCAI2022, Singapore; MICCAI Young Scientist Award (YSA) Selection Committee for MICCAI2022;
Area Chair for MICCAI2021, Strasbourg, France; Oral Session Chair for Medical Image Synthesis in MICCAI2021;
Area Chair for MICCAI 2020, Lima, Peru
MICCAI Satellite Event Committee (Tutorial Chair) for International Conference on Medical Image Computing And Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2019 (ERA 2010 ranking A), Shenzhen China.
General Co-chair for First International Workshop on Vision-Language Models for Biomedical Applications: VLM4Bio 2024 in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2024.
General Co-chair for MICCAI2022 workshop EPIMI for Ethical and Philosophical Issues in Medical Imaging, Singapore, 2022.
General Co-chair for 1st International Workshop on Graph Learning in Medical Imaging (GLMI), in conjunction with MICCAI 2019, Shenzhen, China
Guest editor for the special issue on “High Performance Computing in Bio-medical Informatics” (HPC-BMI) with Neuroinformatics (Springer, IF 2.86), 2017
Lead Guest editor for special issue “Machine Learning in Medical Imaging” with Pattern Recognition (Elsevier, IF 3.096, ERA 2010 ranking A*), 2015-2016
Lead General Co-Chair for the 6-th MICCAI-workshop Machine Learning in Medical Imaging (MLMI) 2015, held with MICCAI 2015 (ERA 2010 ranking A), in Munich Germany.
General Co-Chair for the 5-th MICCAI-workshop Machine Learning in Medical Imaging (MLMI) 2014, held with MICCAI 2014 (ERA 2010 ranking A), in Boston USA.
General Co-Chair for the ICDM-workshop Data Mining in Medical Imaging (DMMI) 2014, held with ICDM 2014 (ERA 2010 ranking A), in Shenzhen China.
Publicity Chair for DICTA 2014, Wollongong, Australia, 2014.
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Distinguished Reviewer, IEEE TMI 2021 (for review work from 2018 through 2020)
Outstanding Reviewers, ICCV 2019, Seoul, South Korea
Best Reviewer Runner-up, MICCAI 2015, Munich, Germany
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Invited Talks:
Invited talk at the 2025 DGIST-KBRI Medical AI International Symposium, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), Daegu, Korea, September 22, 2025
Invited talk at the tutorial "From Foundational to Multimodal Models for Medical Imaging" (FMLLM) in conjunction with MICCAI'25, September 23, 2025
Keynote talk at the 15th international workshop Machine Learning in Medical Imaging (MLMI 2024) in conjunction with MICCAI’24, October, 2024: Medical Report Generation and Medical VQA
Invited Panel Discussion in Vision And Learning SEminar (VALSE) Webinar Vol 24-24, Aug 28, 2024: Medical Multimodal Analysis and Research: The Evolution from Traditional Models to Large Models
Co-chaired (together with Prof. Jaime Miranda) the event of Engagement with Tech Companies & Entrepreneurs with Digital Health at University of Sydney in August 2024.
Invited talk at Sydney Clinical Imaging Summit 2024, March 2024: Automatic Radiographic Report Generation and Visual Question Answering
Invited talk at TRANSCEND Workshop 2023 (AI-Fuelled Healthcare: Empowering Medical Imaging with Applied AI and Federated Learning) hosted by Brain and Mind Centre, USyd, August 2023: Deep Learning for Automatic Medical Report Generation and Visual Question Answering
Keynote talk at Workshop Computer Vision and Medical Computing (CVMC) hosted by Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV) 2022, December 2022: Exploring Fine-grained Image-text Description for Diagnostic Captioning
Invited talk at Sydney Clinical Imaging Summit 2022 (Research Showcase Session), July 2022: A Brief Overview of AI for Medical Imaging: A Personal Journey
Invited talk at IEEE EMBS Webinar Series of "Frontiers of Biomedical Imaging and Analysis", March 2022: Explore Correlated Image-Text features for Automated Radiographical Report Generation
Keynote talk at PRIME (Predictive Intelligence in Medicine), MICCAI, Oct 2021: Exploring Fine-grained Image-text Description for Diagnostic Captioning
Invited Panel Discussion in Vision And Learning SEminar (VALSE) Webinar Vol 21-28, Oct 20, 2021: Transformer in Medical Image Analysis (19K online audience at peak time)
Invited talk at USYD - Fudan Brain and Intelligence Science Alliance Virtual Workshop (BISA Workshop) June 2021: Statistical Graphical Models for Brain Network Analysis
Invited talk at Medical Image Computing Seminars (MICS) 2019, Suzhou, China, July 2019: Statistical Graphical Models for Brain Network Analysis
Invited talk in Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Surgery and Healthcare (AMSAH) 2019, Sydney, Australia, March 2019: Deep learning for High-quality PET Image Synthesis at Low Dose
Invited talk in First Conference of Chinese Medical Imaging AI, Shanghai, China, December 2018: Deep Learning for High-quality PET Image Synthesis at Low Dose
Keynote talk at BrainKDD2015, hosted by ACM SIGKDD in Sydney in 2015: Mining Brain Images: from Local Morphometry to Global Connectivity
Invited speaker of the Frontier Forum 2016, an international event organised by School of Biomedical Engineering in Zhejiang University, China
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Technical Program Committee member of
MICCAI-Machine Learning in Medical Imaging (MLMI) 2011-2018, MICCAI- Computational Method for Molecular Imaging (CMMI) 2015, 2014, MICCAI-Medical Computer Vision (MCV), 2015, International Conference on Image and Graphics, (ICIG) 2015, Pacific Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology (PSIVT), 2013, 2010
Grant Reviewer of
Talent Programme, Dutch Research Council (NWO) 2021; Swiss Cancer Research, Swiss Cancer League, 2019-2020; Discovery Project, Australian Research Council (ARC) 2016-2022; DECRA, Australian Research Council (ARC) 2016-2019; Research Grant, Breast Cancer Now, UK, 2016; Biomedical Junior Fellowship, Alzheimer’s Society, UK, 2016; ASDI (Accelerating Scientific Discovery) grant, The Netherlands e-Science Center (NLeSC) and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), 2015; “Memorable” programme, The Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development (ZonMw) and the National Initiative Brain & Cognition (NIHC), 2014
Reviewer of
IEEE Trans. on Medical Imaging (TMI); Medical Image Analysis (MedIA); IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), IEEE Trans. on Biomedical Engineering (TBME); IEEE Journal on Biomedical and Health Informatics (JBHI); IEEE Trans. on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB); IEEE Trans. on Image Processing (TIP); IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT); IEEE Access; Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics (CMIG); Machine Vision and Application (MVA); Journal of Information Sciences (INS); Neuroimage; Human Brain Mapping; Bioinformatics; PLoS One; Brain Connectivity; Cognitive Computation; Scientific Report
International Conference on Medical Image Computing And Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2010-2019; Machine Learning in Medical Imaging (MLMI), 2011-2019; IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2018-2022; International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2019-2023; European Computer Vision Conference (ECCV) 2020-2022; British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) 2020; IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 2020; Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV)2018; IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 2011-2012; International Conference on Image and Graphics (ICIG), 2011, 2010; The Seventh International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN), 2010; International Conference on Wavelet Analysis and Pattern Recognition (ICWAPR), 2010