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Tianang Leng

Senior Student of Artificial Intelligence

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Basic Information

  • University : Huazhong University of Science and Technology (U.S. News)
  • Major : Artificial Intelligence
  • GPA : 3.97/4 (Tanscript pdf)
  • Rank : 1
  • TOFEL : 109 GRE : 325

My research interest now lies in the fields of protein-protein interaction prediction and de novo protein design. I am working on developing approaches to harness the invaluable data encapsulated within the metagenome.

Research Experience

  • Machine Learning and Computational Biology Group, Research Intern    Sept. 2023 - now
  • I am working with Machine Learning and Computational Biology Group (IIIS, Tsinghua -> Westlake University) on sequence-based protein-protein interaction predictions and de novo peptide design strategies, under the mentorship of Prof. Jianyang Zeng.
  • University of California, Irvine, Research Intern       Jun. 2023 - Sept. 2023
  • I worked with Prof. Xiaohui Xie at ICS on inventing novel data-efficient few-shot learning approach for Medical Image Segmentation with Segment Anything Model (SAM).
  • Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Research Intern      Jun. 2022 - Aug. 2022
  • I worked with Brain-Computer Interface and Machine Learning Lab on designing fast and reliable EEG-based Motor Imagine algorithms for Brain Computer Interfaces, under the mentorship of Prof. Dongrui Wu.
  • Cambridge University, Remote Intern      May. 2022 - Jun. 2022
  • I worked with Prof. Pietro Liò to overcome the masking issues in Face Recognition during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Awards and Scholarships

  • Freshmen study for merit scholarships (2021)
  • School merit scholarship (top 6%) (2021)
  • National Scholarship (top 1.8%) (2021)
  • School merit scholarship (top 6%) (2022)
  • National Scholarship (top 1.8%) (2022)
  • Outstanding Undergraduates in Term of Academic Performance (top 1%) (2022)

Publication

Self-Sampling Meta SAM: Enhancing Few-shot Medical Image Segmentation with Meta-Learning (WACV 2024)

Here we introduce three novel modules for Segment Anything Model (SAM) for efficient few-shot medical image segmentation, experiments on popular abdominal CT and MRI dataset showed average improvements of 10.21% and 1.80% in terms of DSC, respectively.
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Projects and Contests

Kaggle: Predict Student Performance from Game Play

Utilizing insights from BERT and MAE, we developed a sequence classification model to accurately predict students' performance through a series of gameplay actions, earning us a prestigious bronze medal (top 5.6%).
[Contest Link]

2022 World Robot Contest - BCI Controlled Robot Contest

Utilizing Euclidean Alignment and Independent Component Analysis (ICA), we generated a substantial volume of high-quality data, successfully mitigating the over-fitting issue prevalent in EEG based Brain-Computer Interfaces. Impressively, I secured the 20th position among 283 global teams predominantly comprised of master's and Ph.D. students.
[Contest Link] [Code]

2022 HUST-Cambridge Foundations of Data Science - Masked Face Recognition

By incorporating a lightweight Convolutional Block Attention Module into ArcFace and optimizing the training with challenging images isolated using MCTNN, I successfully honed the network's focus on distinguishing features such as the eyes and hairline, thereby enhancing the performance by a notable 4%.
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Undergraduate Innovation and Entrepreneurship Project - Intelligent football game analysis

By adeptly merging a transformer-based tracker with YOLOv5, I successfully developed a system capable of mitigating player and ball occlusion issues, enabling automatic and precise tracking of the small soccer ball at real-time FPS through a whole game.

2022 Robocom Robot developer competition (Detect whether pedestrians are wearing masks properly) - Second class prize

Contribution: I proposed to use MTCNN + Arcface to process pictures sequentially, first extract faces and then identify masks with feature vectors. We got a pretty good result on off-line test set.