Dr Liu Yong is Deputy Department Director, Computing & Intelligence Department at Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC), A*STAR, Singapore. He is also Adjunct Associate Professor at Duke-NUS Medical School, NUS and Adjunct Principal Investigator at Singapore Eye Research Institute (SERI).
Being passionate on the potential of AI on healthcare, he has led multiple research projects in multimodal machine learning, medical imaging analysis, especially AI for digital ophthalmology and other areas in healthcare. Together with clinicians, he has been awarded large scale programme and multiple grants as PI in the area of AI for healthcare. He and his team have been awarded multiple grants from AI SG, NMRC, IAF-PP, and NHIC. He and his team have also published top tier papers in New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet Digital Health, Nature Aging, Ophthalmology, Neurology, Annals of Neurology, and also top-tier AI papers (AAAI, CVPR, IJCAI, MICCAI). He has won the Nation Award (Covid-19) Commendation Medal. His papers received Best Paper Award at REMIA workshop with 2022 MICCAI, Best Paper Award at BeyondLabeler Workshop on International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2016. He and his team has also won the 3rd Place GAMMA Challenge in MICCAI 2021, the NSCC Outstanding HPC Innovation Award 2017, and the first prize of Rakuten TV recommendation Challenge 2015.
Contact: liuyong@ihpc.a-star.edu.sg