Ph.D. Student, Sungkyunkwan University (MIP Lab), South Korea, Supervised by Prof. Hyunjin Park
Email: nsy0527@g.skku.edu
Github: github.com/heavy0ung
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/sinyoungra
Google Scholar: scholar.google.com/citations?user=33OEbEgAAAAJ
Medical AI
Medical Image Analysis
Vision-Language Models
Reinforcement Learning
[June 2026] I was selected for the National Science and Technology Scholarship (Ph.D.) from KOSAF!
[May 2026] Our team received the Best Paper Award at the KIICE 2026 Spring Conference!
[May 2026] Our team received the Best Poster Award at the KOSOMBE 2026 Spring Conference!
[May 2026] Our paper "DIVER-Surv: Diffusion and Virtual-Node Graph Fusion for Cross-Cohort Glioma Survival" was provisionally accepted for MICCAI 2026! (Top 9%)
[Apr 2026] Our paper "Multi-LLM Collaborative MRI Report Generation for Visual Instruction Tuning in Brain Oncology" was accepted for EMBC 2026!
[Apr 2026] Our paper "Visual Instruction-Finetuned Language Model for Versatile Brain MR Image tasks" was accepted for ICPR 2026!
[Jan 2026] Our paper "DySC-CCA: Dynamic Similarity-Constrained Canonical Correlation Analysis for Multimodal Alzheimer's Diagnosis" was accepted for ISBI 2026!
[Dec 2025] Our team received the Excellence Award (2nd Place) at the 2025 SKKU Graduate Student Paper Award!
[June 2025] Our paper "Privacy-Preserving Chest X-ray Classification in Latent Space with Homomorphically Encrypted Neural Inference" was accepted for MICCAI 2025!
[June 2025] Our paper "Enhancing radiomics features via a large language model for classifying benign and malignant breast tumors in mammography" was published in Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine!
[Jan 2023] Started internship at Medical Image Processing (MIP) Lab, SKKU.
Ph.D. in Aritificial Intelligence
Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), South Korea
Mar. 2025 – Present
Supervised by Prof. Hyunjin Park, MIP Lab
M.S. in Aritificial Intelligence
Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), South Korea
3 semesters early graduation
Sep. 2023 – Feb. 2025
Supervised by Prof. Hyunjin Park, MIP Lab
GPA: 4.30 / 4.5
B.S. in Data Science
Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), South Korea
SKKU Magna Cum Laude
7 semesters early graduation
Mar. 2018 – Aug. 2023
GPA: 4.04 / 4.5
A full list of publications is available on my Google Scholar profile.
DIVER-Surv: Diffusion and Virtual-Node Graph Fusion for Cross-Cohort Glioma Survival
Minji Cho, Sinyoung Ra, Jiwon Chung, Hyunjin Park
International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2026
Multi-LLM Collaborative MRI Report Generation for Visual Instruction Tuning in Brain Oncology
Sinyoung Ra*, Jonghun Kim* , Hyunjin Park (*: equal contribution)
International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2026
DySC-CCA: Dynamic Similarity-Constrained Canonical Correlation Analysis for Multimodal Alzheimer's Diagnosis
Sewook Oh, Junmo Kwon, Jonghun Kim, Sunghun Kim, Sinyoung Ra, Hyunjin Park
International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 2026
Enhancing radiomics features via a large language model for classifying benign and malignant breast tumors in mammography
Sinyoung Ra, Jonghun Kim, Inye Na, Eun Sook Ko, Hyunjin Park
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine (CMPB), 2025
2026.06 – Present: National Science and Technology Scholarship (Ph.D.), KOSAF
2025.03 – Present: Graduate Merit Scholarship, SKKU (100% tuition waiver for 4 semesters of Ph.D. Course)
2024.03 – Present: Resident Assistant Scholarship, SKKU
2023.09 – 2025.02: Graduate Merit Scholarship, SKKU (50% tuition waiver for 3 semesters of M.S. Course)
2023.03 – 2023.06: Student Success Scholarship, SKKU
2023.03 – 2023.06: SKKU American Football Team Alumni Association Scholarship, Kisan Tech
2022.09 – 2022.12: Academic Excellence Scholarship, Dean's List of Data Science, SKKU
2022.03 – 2022.12: President of Independent Student Club Scholarship, SKKU
2022.03 – 2022.06: Entegris Scholarship, Entegris Korea
Best Paper Award, KIICE 2026 Spring Conference
Sequential Transfer Learning based on Morphological Texture for Enhanced Lung Nodule Malignancy Prediction
Sinyoung Ra, Hyunjin Park
Best Poster Award, KOSOMBE 2026 Spring Conference
Volume-Conditioned Segmentation for Ambiguous Multi-Annotation Medical Images
Nejung Rue, Minji Cho, Sinyoung Ra, Jiyoon Kweon, Uihyeon Maeng, Hyunjin Park
Excellence Award, 2025 SKKU Graduate Student Paper Award
Multi-LLM Collaborative MRI Report Generation for Visual Instruction Tuning in Brain Oncology
Sinyoung Ra, Jonghun kim
5th Place, MICCAI 2023 TopCoW Challenge
(CTA track in multi-class segmentation tasks)
Topology-Aware Anatomical Segmentation of the Circle of Willis for CTA and MRA (TopCoW)
Sinyoung Ra, Jongyun Hwang, Hyunjin Park