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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 30 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences and first-authored more than 15 publications at prestigious journals/conferences, such as 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.. and a lead guest editor for Frontiers in Medicine.
- Email address: y.m.meng@exeter.ac.uk
I am seeking self-motivated MRes and Ph. D students. If you are interested in working with me, please send me an email about your background (CV, transcripts, etc..) News
- 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 industry-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 Industry-funded UK-rate full PhD studentship as PI , 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 .
- 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 industry-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 Industry-funded UK-rate full PhD studentship as PI , the student is expected to start in September 2024.
