About Me

• Assistant Professor (UK Lecturer) (2024.02 - now) in Computer Vision/AI/Medical Image Analysis at the Department of Computer Science, University of Exeter.
• Honorary Lecturer (2024.05 - now) at the Cardiovascular & Metabolic Medicine Department, University of Liverpool.
• Member of Liverpool Centre for Cardiovascular Science (LCCS), led by Prof. Gregory Lip.
• Postdoctoral Research Associate (2022.11 - 2024.01) in the Eye and Vision Science Department, University of Liverpool, UK, advised by Prof. Yalin Zheng and Dr. Nicholas Beare.
• He has a PhD (2019.04-2022.11) in the Eye and Vision Science Department, University of Liverpool, UK, where he is supervised by Prof. Yalin Zheng and Prof. Xiaowei Huang. He has an M.Sc (2017-2018) in the School of Computing, University of Leeds, UK, and a B.Eng (2013-2017) in the Software Engineering Department, Capital Normal University, China.
• Yanda’s current research mainly focuses on Medical Image Analysis, Foundation Models, Data-Efficient Deep Learning, Trustworthy AI, Geometric Deep Learning, etc. He has published more than 40 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences and first/corresponding-authored more than 20 publications in prestigious journals/conferences, such as AAAI, ICCV, ECCV, BMVC, MICCAI, IEEE-TMI, IEEE-TITS, MedIA, Diabetologia, etc. He serves as a reviewer for many journals/conferences such as CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, MICCAI, Medical Physics, AIM, CMIG, CBM, MedIA, IEEE-TMI, IEE-TIP, IEEE-TCSVT, IEEE-JBHI, etc. He is a guest editor for IEEE-JBHI, Mathematics, and Frontiers in Medicine.
• Email address: y.m.meng@exeter.ac.uk

News

• Apr 2025, Deligated to join the Program Committee board of IEEE 23rd International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2026), which will be held in London, UK, April 8-11, 2026.
• Mar 2025, One paper, ‘Are Spatial-Temporal Graph Convolution Networks for Human Action Recognition Over-Parameterized?’ is accepted by CVPR2025.
• Feb 2025, Acceptance of an NHS-funded UK-rate full PhD studentship as PI (£45,000 external), the student is expected to start in Sep 2025.
• Jan 2025, Our accepted AAAI 2025 paper ‘Incomplete Modality Disentangled Representation for Ophthalmic Disease Grading and Diagnosis’, is accepted by the 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2025) project link is selected as Oral ! Congrats to the first-author, Chengzhi Liu, who is now a final-year undergraduate student.
• Jan 2025, I will be serving as an Area Chair for MICCAI 2025, which will be held in South Korean DAEJEON .
• Jan 2025, One Mathematics special issue that I am serving as the guest editor is now available to submit, Application of Computational Intelligence and Mathematical Methods to Medical Image Analysis, deadline 30th Sep 2025.
• Jan 2025, One EPSRC Doctoral Landscape Award (EPSRC DLA) 3.5-year PhD studentship at the UK/international tuition fee and UKRI stipend rate are available in my group. The application deadline is 9th Feb 2025. link.
• Jan 2025, One Frontiers in Medicine (Ophthalmology) special issue that I am serving as the guest editor is now available to submit, Efficient Artificial Intelligence in Ophthalmic Imaging – Volume II, deadline 21st June 2025.
• Jan 2025, One IEEE-JBHI special issue that I am serving as the guest editor is now available to submit, Synergizing Multi-modal Agents and Large Foundation Models for Healthcare, deadline 31st May 2025.
• Dec 2024, One paper, ‘Incomplete Modality Disentangled Representation for Ophthalmic Disease Grading and Diagnosis’, is accepted by the 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2025) project link.
• Dec 2024, Acceptance of the Royal Society International Exchanges Grant under NSFC route with Chongqing University, China as PI (£12,000 external): Intracranial aneurysm reconstruction and segmentation for personalised surgery plan. link.
• Nov 2024, One paper, ‘Exploring Concept Depth: How Large Language Models Acquire Knowledge at Different Layers?’ is accepted by the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2025).
• Nov 2024, One paper, ‘Dynamic Semantic-based Spatial-Temporal Graph Convolution Network for Skeleton-based Human Action Recognition’ is accepted by the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (IEEE-TIP)
• Nov 2024, One paper, ‘Randomness-restricted Diffusion Model for Ocular Surface Structure Segmentation’ is accepted by the IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (IEEE TMI)
• Oct 2024, I am recognized as an IEEE TMI Distinguished Reviewer Bronze Level 2023 – 2024.
• Oct 2024, One paper, ‘Clinical Insight-Augmented Multi-View Learning for Alzheimer’s Detection in Retinal OCTA Images’ is accepted by the IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (IEEE BIBM 2024)
• Sep 2024, One paper, ‘MR2 -Net: Retinal OCTA Image Stitching via Multi-Scale Representation Learning and Dynamic Location Guidance’, is accepted by the IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (IEEE-JBHI).
• July 2024, One NHS-funded 3-year PhD studentship at the UK tuition fee and UKRI stipend rate are available in my group. The application deadline is 25th Aug 2024. link.
• July 2024, One paper, ‘Artificial intelligence – based classification of cardiac autonomic neuropathy from retinal fundus images in patients with diabetes - The Silesia Diabetes Heart Study’, is accepted by Cardiovascular Diabetology.
• July 2024, Acceptance of an NHS-funded UK-rate full PhD studentship as PI (£45,000 external), the student is expected to start in January 2025.
• June 2024, One paper ‘AI-Driven Generalised Polynomial Transformation Models for Unsupervised Fundus Image Registration’ is accepted by Frontiers in Medicine, section Ophthalmology.
• June 2024, Two papers are accepted by Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions (MICCAI2024), ‘CLIP-DR: Textual Knowledge-Guided Diabetic Retinopathy Grading with Ranking-aware Prompting’ and ‘Multi-disease Detection in Retinal Images Guided by Disease Causal Estimation’.
• May 2024, One paper, ‘Self-Guided Adversarial Network for Domain Adaptive Retinal Layer Segmentation,’ is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation & Measurement (IEEE-TIM).
• May 2024, Acceptance of 2024 SeedCorn Fund of Health Technologies@Exeter as PI (£2,500 internal).
• May 2024, One paper, ‘The impact of reasoning step length on large language models’, is accepted by ACL 2024 as Findings; congrats to Mingyu and Qinkai as their first-author publications!
• April 2024, One NHS-funded 3.5-year PhD studentship at the UK tuition fee and UKRI stipend rate is available in my group. The deadline to apply is 15th May 2024. link.
• April 2024, One paper, ‘Multi-granularity learning of explicit geometric constraint and contrast for label-efficient medical image segmentation and differentiable clinical function assessment’, is accepted by Medical Image Analysis.
• April 2024, Acceptance of an NHS-funded UK-rate full PhD studentship as PI (£45,000 external), the student is expected to start in September 2024.