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Ying Chen
Incoming Ph.D. Student
Columbia University
About Me

I am an incoming Ph.D. student at Columbia University, where I will join the Laboratory of AI & Biomedical Science (LABS) under the supervision of Prof. Junhao (Hao) Wen. I completed my master's studies at Xiamen University under the supervision of Prof. Rongshan Yu.

My research interests lie at AI for science, with a particular focus on foundation models, generative AI, and multimodal learning for biomedical applications. My long-term goal is to build intelligent computational models that advance our understanding of human health and disease.

Education
  • Columbia University
    Columbia University
    Ph.D. Student
    2026.09 -
  • Xiamen University
    Xiamen University
    M.S. Student
    2023.09 - 2026.06
  • South China Normal University
    South China Normal University
    B.S. Student
    2019.09 - 2023.06
Experience
  • Shanghai AI LAB
    Shanghai AI LAB
    Research Intern
    2024.05 - 2026.02
Honors & Awards
  • Outstanding Master's Thesis Award, Xiamen University
    2026
  • South China Normal University Merit Student Scholarship (four times)
    2019-2023
News
2024
AI Transforms Music Industry: First AI-Composed Symphony Debuts in New York
Oct 19
Virtual Reality Theme Park Opens, Redefining Entertainment Industry
Mar 22
First Human Settlement Established on Mars, Marking New Era of Space Exploration. Read more
Jan 30
2023
Scientists Discover New Species of Bioluminescent Fish in Mariana Trench
Nov 28
AI-Powered Robot Chef Wins International Culinary Competition Featured
Sep 05
2022
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Jan 11
Selected Publications (view all )
BioMTAN: A Biological Knowledge-Guided Multi-Task Attention Network for Co-Enhanced Cancer Diagnosis and Prognosis
BioMTAN: A Biological Knowledge-Guided Multi-Task Attention Network for Co-Enhanced Cancer Diagnosis and Prognosis

Ying Chen*, Jiajing Xie*, Yuxiang Lin, Yuhang Song, Wenxian Yang, Rongshan Yu# (* equal contribution, # corresponding author)

IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (JBHI) 2026

BioMTAN integrates biological pathway knowledge with multi-task attention to jointly predict cancer molecular subtypes and survival risk from gene expression data.

BioMTAN: A Biological Knowledge-Guided Multi-Task Attention Network for Co-Enhanced Cancer Diagnosis and Prognosis

Ying Chen*, Jiajing Xie*, Yuxiang Lin, Yuhang Song, Wenxian Yang, Rongshan Yu# (* equal contribution, # corresponding author)

IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (JBHI) 2026

BioMTAN integrates biological pathway knowledge with multi-task attention to jointly predict cancer molecular subtypes and survival risk from gene expression data.

SurvMamba: State Space Model with Multi-Grained Multi-Modal Interaction for Survival Prediction
SurvMamba: State Space Model with Multi-Grained Multi-Modal Interaction for Survival Prediction

Ying Chen, Jiajing Xie, Yuxiang Lin, Yuhang Song, Chen Zhang, Wenxian Yang, Rongshan Yu# (# corresponding author)

IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) 2025

SurvMamba introduces Mamba-based hierarchical intra-modal and inter-modal interaction modules to integrate whole-slide images and transcriptomic data for efficient cancer survival prediction.

SurvMamba: State Space Model with Multi-Grained Multi-Modal Interaction for Survival Prediction

Ying Chen, Jiajing Xie, Yuxiang Lin, Yuhang Song, Chen Zhang, Wenxian Yang, Rongshan Yu# (# corresponding author)

IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) 2025

SurvMamba introduces Mamba-based hierarchical intra-modal and inter-modal interaction modules to integrate whole-slide images and transcriptomic data for efficient cancer survival prediction.

SlideChat: A Large Vision-Language Assistant for Whole-Slide Pathology Image Understanding
SlideChat: A Large Vision-Language Assistant for Whole-Slide Pathology Image Understanding

Ying Chen*, Guoan Wang*, Yuanfeng Ji*#, Yanjun Li, Jin Ye, Tianbin Li, Ming Hu, Rongshan Yu, Yu Qiao, Junjun He# (* equal contribution, # corresponding author)

IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2025

SlideChat is an open-source vision-language assistant for gigapixel whole-slide pathology images, built with SlideInstruction and evaluated on SlideBench across captioning and VQA tasks.

SlideChat: A Large Vision-Language Assistant for Whole-Slide Pathology Image Understanding

Ying Chen*, Guoan Wang*, Yuanfeng Ji*#, Yanjun Li, Jin Ye, Tianbin Li, Ming Hu, Rongshan Yu, Yu Qiao, Junjun He# (* equal contribution, # corresponding author)

IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2025

SlideChat is an open-source vision-language assistant for gigapixel whole-slide pathology images, built with SlideInstruction and evaluated on SlideBench across captioning and VQA tasks.

RAFNet: Restricted Attention Fusion Network for Sleep Apnea Detection
RAFNet: Restricted Attention Fusion Network for Sleep Apnea Detection

Ying Chen*, Huijun Yue*, Ruifeng Zou, Wenbin Lei, Wenjun Ma, Xiaomao Fan# (* equal contribution, # corresponding author)

Neural Networks 2023

RAFNet detects sleep apnea from single-lead ECG by using restricted attention to fuse target and adjacent ECG segments while suppressing redundant neighboring information.

RAFNet: Restricted Attention Fusion Network for Sleep Apnea Detection

Ying Chen*, Huijun Yue*, Ruifeng Zou, Wenbin Lei, Wenjun Ma, Xiaomao Fan# (* equal contribution, # corresponding author)

Neural Networks 2023

RAFNet detects sleep apnea from single-lead ECG by using restricted attention to fuse target and adjacent ECG segments while suppressing redundant neighboring information.

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