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Hi, I'm Zhixuan Chen

Ph.D. researcher · I work on Medical Image Analysis

I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Engineering at HKUST, advised by Prof. Hao Chen. Before HKUST, I graduated with honors from UESTC and was a recipient of the China National Scholarship three times.

Zhixuan Chen
Medical AI
3× National Scholar
HKUST
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Peer-reviewed Publications
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China National Scholarship
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First-author MICCAI / TMI
Top 0%
Outstanding Graduate · Sichuan
Research Focus

What I work on

Building trustworthy, generalizable AI for medicine — from CT report generation to vision–language models that doctors can actually reason with.

Medical Image Analysis

Region-aware models that read volumetric scans (CT, X-ray) the way a radiologist would — anatomy first, findings second.

Medical Vision–Language Models

LLM-driven report generation grounded in image regions and prior medical knowledge — bridging perception and language.

Trustworthy & Explainable AI

Concept-guided prompt learning and knowledge-enhanced reasoning so clinicians can audit why a model decided what it decided.

Generalist Foundation Models

Generalist–specialist collaboration that scales a single LLM across modalities (CXR / CT / MRI / pathology).

What's new

News & Highlights

Latest acceptances, awards, and milestones — most recent first.

2025.05
MICCAI 2025 🎉 My paper got early accepted by MICCAI 2025.
2025.04
IEEE TMI 🎉 First-author paper accepted by IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging.
2024.06
MICCAI 2024 Our paper accepted by MICCAI 2024.
2023.05
People's Daily Featured as one of only 100 students nationwide recognized for the China National Scholarship.
Research

Selected Publications

Each paper has a visual overview to help you grasp the idea in a glance. Names in bold indicate co-first or my contribution. See the full list on Google Scholar.

Recognition

Awards & Honors

A selection of competitive scholarships, honors and competition prizes.

HUANGKUN Scholarship
Top 4% · 2023.06
Gratitude to Chinese Modern Scientists Scholarship
Top 0.2% · 2023.04
China National Scholarship × 3
Top 2% · 2020 / 2021 / 2022
First-Class Excellent Student Scholarship
2020 · 2021 · 2022
Meritorious Winner · Mathematical Contest in Modeling
Top 7% · 2022.05
First Prize · National Optoelectronic Design Competition
Top 1.5% · 2021.08
First Prize · Sichuan Mathematical Modeling Competition
2021
First Prize · National College Mathematics Competition
Top 8% · 2020.12
Outstanding University Graduate of Sichuan Province
Top 1% · 2023.06
"Honorary Research" Title · UESTC
2023.06
Featured in People's Daily
100 students nationwide · 2023.05
Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis · UESTC
2023.06
Distinguished Student · School of OSE
Top 1% · 2023.06
Outstanding Student Nominee of UESTC
22 students university-wide · 2022.12
Background

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · Advisor: Prof. Hao Chen
2023.09 – Present
B.Eng. in Electronic Science and Engineering (with honors)
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · Advisor: Prof. Liangjian Deng
2019.09 – 2023.06
Service

Professional Service

Journal Reviewer

  • IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI)
  • IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
Teaching

Teaching & Mentoring

Teaching Assistant · COMP 4021 Internet Computing (Fall 2023, Spring 2024)

Mentee · Liqi Lin (UG @ USTC), 2024.08 – Present

Let's collaborate

Open to research collaboration and discussion on medical AI, vision-language models, and trustworthy AI.