Yuankai Huo
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Vanderbilt University, TN, USA
Principal Investigator
Dr. Yuankai Huo serves as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science, and Electrical and Computer Engineering, as well as the Director of the Biomedical Data Representation and Learning Lab (HRLB Lab) at Vanderbilt University. Additionally, he is an Assistant Professor of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Dr. Huo’s current research specializes in high-dimensional multi-modal data analysis, computational pathology and radiology, and medical computer vision. Dr. Huo has received prestigious awards, including the Charles E. Ives Journal Award from the Society for Imaging Science and Technology, the Early Career Achievement Award from the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine, and the NAIRR Pilot award from NSF. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and a lifetime member of SPIE, contributing as an organization committee member and area chair for leading medical image analysis conferences such as MICCAI, MIDL, and ISBI. Dr. Huo’s ongoing efforts are dedicated to advancing next-generation AI algorithms for ultra-high-resolution imaging and non-imaging data analysis.
Interests
- Medical Computer Vision
- Artificial Intelligence
- Ultra-high Resolution Data Analysis
Education
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PhD in Electrical Engineering, 2018
Vanderbilt University
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MS in Computer Science, 2014
Columbia University
Lab News
- If you are interested in joining the lab as a PhD student, please email me your CV. Details Link
Our Team
PhD Students
Chongyu Qu
PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Junchao Zhu
PhD student in Computer Science
Marilyn Lionts
PhD student in Computer Science
Yanfan Zhu
PhD student in Computer Science
Yuechen Yang
PhD student in Computer Science
Zhengyi Lu
PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Masters Students
Ruijie Wu
MS student in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Xiao Li
MS student in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Xindong Zheng
MS student in Computer Science
Ziyang Zhang
MS student in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Undergrad Students
Ali Sidiqyar
Undergraduate Student in Computer Science and Medicine, Health, and Society
Anikait Rawat
Undergraduate student in Computer Science and Mathematics
Ethan Hu
Undergraduate student in Computer Science
Runchen (Clara) Wang
Undergraduate student in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Data Science
Yang (Young) Yao
Undergraduate Student in Mathematics, Political Science, and Data Science
PhD Alumni
2024-05 Quan Liu
First position - Advanced AI/ML Scientist @ Accenture
2024-11 Ruining Deng
First position - Instructor of Artificial Intelligence @ Weill Cornell Medicine
2024-12 Can(Cathy) Cui
First position - Research Scientist @ Meta
2025-12 Tianyuan Yao
First position - Senior Machine Learning Scientist @ Pangea
2026-06 Junlin Guo
First position - Post-doc @ Oak Ridge National Lab
Alumni
| Name | Degree | Program | Leave Lab | First Job Position | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quan Liu | PhD | CS | 2024 | Advanced AI/ML Scientist at Accenture | HRLB PhD #001 |
| Ruining Deng | PhD | CS | 2024 | Instructor of Artificial Intelligence at Weill Cornell Medicine | HRLB PhD #002 |
| Can Cui | PhD | CS | 2024 | Research Scientist at Meta | HRLB PhD #003 |
| Tianyuan Yao | PhD | CS | 2025 | Senior Machine Learning Scientist at Pangea | HRLB PhD #004 |
| Junlin Guo | PhD | CS | 2026 | Post-doc at Oak Ridge National Lab | HRLB PhD #005 |
| Ho Hin (Peter) Lee | PhD | CS | 2023 | Research Scientist at Microsoft Research | Co-advise with Dr. Bennett Landman |
| Yucheng Tang | PhD | ECE | 2022 | Research Scientist at NVIDIA | Co-advise with Dr. Bennett Landman |
| Riqiang Gao | PhD | CS | 2022 | Research Scientist at Siemens Healthineers | Co-advise with Dr. Bennett Landman |
| Xindong Zheng | MS | CS | 2026 | PhD student at Vanderbilt University | |
| Xiao Li | MS | ECE | 2026 | PhD student at University of Florida | |
| Hanfeng (Jules) Zou | MS | CS | 2026 | PhD student at University of Florida | |
| Juming Xiong | MS | ECE | 2025 | PhD student at Vanderbilt University | |
| Zhengyi Lu | MS | ECE | 2025 | PhD student at Vanderbilt University | |
| Yanfan Zhu | MS | ECE | 2025 | PhD student at Vanderbilt University | |
| Jialin Yue | MS | ECE | 2025 | PhD student at Washington University at Saint Louis | |
| Siqi Lu | MS | ECE | 2025 | PhD student at William & Mary | |
| Muyang Li | MS | CS | 2025 | PhD student at University of Florida | SPIE Best Paper Award Finalist |
| Lining Yu | MS | CS | 2025 | ||
| Yifei Wu | MS | CS | 2025 | PhD student at Beihang University | |
| Yitian Long | MS | DSI | 2025 | PhD student at Fudan University | |
| Xueyuan Li | MS | DSI | 2024 | Staff Research Associate at UCSF | SPIE Best Paper Award Finalist |
| Changzhe Liu | MS | ECE | 2023 | PhD student at Vanderbilt University | |
| Yilin Ye | MS | DSI | 2022 | Data Scientist at Walmart Global Tech | SPIE Best Paper Award Finalist |
| Yuan Li | MS | DSI | 2022 | PhD student at Southern Methodist University | |
| Xing Li | MS | Intern | 2021 | ML Software Engineer at Essenlix Corporation | |
| Shiru Wang | MS | Intern | 2021 | PhD student at Dartmouth College | |
| Tianyuan Yao | MS | Intern | 2021 | PhD student at Vanderbilt University | SPIE Best Paper Award Finalist |
| Mengyang Zhao | MS | Intern | 2021 | PhD student at Dartmouth College | |
| Wenying Gu | MS | DSI | 2021 | PhD student at UT Health | |
| Zekun Wang | MS | DSI | 2021 | Associate Research Engineer at Indeed | |
| Qianyi Sun | MS | DSI | 2021 | Software Engineer at Amazon | |
| Can Luo | MS | DSI | 2020 | PhD student at Vanderbilt University | |
| Quan Liu | MS | Intern | 2020 | PhD student at Vanderbilt University | |
| Ruining Deng | MS | ECE | 2020 | PhD student at Vanderbilt University | |
| Ye Chen | MS | ECE | 2020 | PhD student at Santa Clara University | |
| Xuan Wang | MS | CS | 2019 | PhD student at Auburn University | |
| Hyeonsoo Moon | MS | CS | 2018 | Machcine Learning Engineer at LG Research | |
| Runchen Wang | UG | CS | 2026 | PhD student at Duke University | |
| Tobenna Udeze | UG | CS | 2026 | Pre-PhD student at University of Chicago | |
| Jiahao Yu | UG | CS | 2026 | MS student at Carnegie Mellon University | |
| Xiaoyu (Howard) Huang | UG | CS | 2026 | MS student at Dartmouth College | |
| Michael Tung | UG | CS | 2026 | MS student at Johns Hopkins University | |
| John Bohatch | UG | Intern | 2025 | VISE fellow | |
| Franklin Hu | UG | Intern | 2025 | Software Engineer at Capital One | |
| Darwin Deng | UG | Intern | 2024 | UG student at Yale University | |
| William Gu | UG | Intern | 2024 | UG student at Columbia University | |
| Margaret Alexander | UG | CS | 2024 | PhD student at St. Jude’s Graduate School | |
| Zuhayr Asad | UG | CS | 2024 | Intern at General Catalyst | |
| Jiayuan Chen | UG | Intern | 2023 | MS student at Ohio State University | |
| Peize Li | UG | CS | 2023 | Software Engineer at Roblox | |
| Yilin Liu | UG | CS | 2023 | MS student at Standford | |
| Haoju Leng | UG | CS | 2023 | MS student at Carnegie Mellon University | |
| Ethan Nguyen | UG | CS | 2023 | Software Engineer at Capital One | Goldwater scholar |
| Chenxi Dong | UG | CS | 2022 | MS student at University of Pennsylvania | SPIE Best Paper Award Finalist |
| Carter Caldwell | UG | CS | 2022 | Associate Software Engineer at iCapital | |
| Zheyu Zhu | UG | CS | 2022 | Software Engineer at Amazon | |
| Yuzhe Lu | UG | CS | 2022 | MS student at Carnegie Mellon University | CRA Award Honorable Mentions |
| Raahul Natarrajan | UG | CS | 2022 | PhD student at Vanderbilt University | |
| Jiachen (Charlie) Xu | UG | CS | 2022 | MS student at University of Toronto | VISE fellow |
| Kaifeng Pang | UG | Intern | 2022 | MS student at UCLA | |
| Ololade Adetula | UG | Intern | 2022 | Aspirnaut Summer Research | |
| Michael Knight | UG | CS | 2021 | Research Assistant at Vanderbilt University Medical Center | |
| Yuxuan (Bill) Shi | UG | CS | 2021 | MS student at Columbia University | VUSRP scholar |
| Aadarsh Jha | UG | CS | 2021 | Software Engineer at Microsoft | President of VandyHacks |
| Jiaxin He | UG | CS | 2021 | MS student at UCSD | DSI fellow |
| Yilin (Erika) Liu | UG | CS | 2021 | Software Engineer Intern at Tencent | DSI fellow |
| Chang (Sunnie) Qu | UG | CS | 2021 | MS student at Cornell University | |
| Jiawei Zhu | UG | CS | 2021 | MS student at Carnegie Mellon University | |
| Yuxuan (Carl) Zhang | UG | CS | 2021 | MS student at Duke University | |
| Zhengkai Xie | UG | CS | 2021 | MS student at Columbia University | |
| Yunxi Xiong | UG | CS | 2018 | Software Engineer at Facebook | |
| Jiacheng Wang | UG | CS | 2018 | Software Engineer at Google | VUSRP scholar; ACCRE fellow; Dean’s list |
| Mengchu Chen | UG | CS | 2018 | Software Engineer at Facebook | |
| Yuang Yao | UG | CS | 2017 | Software Engineer at Facebook | |
| Meg Bobo | UG | EE | 2017 | Advisory Services Analyst at Optum | VISE fellow |
| Victor Mulindwa | HS | Intern | 2024 | Vanderbilt SSMV program | |
| Ku Moo | HS | Intern | 2024 | Aspirnaut Summer Research | |
| Evelyn Prudenciano | HS | Intern | 2024 | Aspirnaut Summer Research | |
| Nadine Thao | HS | Intern | 2022 | Aspirnaut Summer Research | |
| Cam (Julia) Nguyen | HS | STEM | 2021 | Undergraduate Student at Brown University |