PhD/Postdoc/Visiting Scholar/RA Opportunities on AI, Robotics & Perception at CUHK Hong Kong

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PhD/Postdoc/RA (and Visiting Scholar/Prof/Ph.D.) Opportunities in AI, Robotics & Perception at CUHK Hong Kong

 

[RESEARCH AREA]

 

There are multiple openings for Postdoc/RA (and Visiting Scholar/Prof/Ph.D.) to perform research on Medical Robotics Perception & AI at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK, Hong Kong) starting immediately. Particularly, the main areas of interest include AI-assisted endoscopic diagnosis, biorobotics & intelligent systems, multisensory perception, AI learning and control in image-guided procedures, medical mechatronics, continuum, and soft flexible robots and sensors, deployable motion generation, compliance modulation/sensing, cooperative and context-aware flexible/soft sensors/actuators in human environments. For more details, please refer to the recent publications at Google Scholar or the lab website http://labren.org/.

 

The scholars will have opportunities to work with an interdisciplinary team consisting of clinicians and researchers from robotics, AI & perception, imaging, and medicine.
The salary/remunerations will be highly competitive and commensurate with qualifications and experience (e.g., Postdoc salary will be typically above 4300USD per month plus medical insurance etc.).

[QUALIFICATIONS]

* Background in AI, Computer Science/Engineering, Electronic or Mechanical Engineering, robotics, medical physics, automation, or mechatronics background
* Preferably have hands-on experience in AI/robots/sensors, instrumentation, intelligent systems

* Strong problem-solving, writing, programming, interpersonal, and analytical skills
* Outstanding academic records/publications or recognitions from worldwide top-ranking institutes
* Self-motivated and preferably with strong academic records 

[HOW TO APPLY]

Qualified candidates are invited to express their interests through an email with detailed supporting documents (including CV, transcripts, HK visa status, research interests, education background, experiences, GPA, representative publications, demo projects) to Prof. Hongliang Ren ASAP email: <hlren@ee.cuhk.edu.hk> Due to the significant amount of emails, we seek understandings that only shortlisted candidates will be informed/invited to interview.

Team presentations at IJCAI 2023

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Congratulations to the following members for the presentations at  IJCAI2023 Macau, IJCAI2023 Symposium on Multimodal Reasoning – Techniques, Applications, and Challenges:

Multimodal Reasoning and Language Prompting for Interactive Learning Assistant for Robotic Surgery. Gokul Kannan, Lalithkumar Seenivasan, Hongliang Ren
IJCAI-2023 Symposium Session on Medical Large Models
Talk by Dr. Ren: Surgical motion understanding and generation towards intelligent minimally invasive robotic procedures

6 papers accepted by MICCAI2023

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Congratulations to the following members for the papers accepted by MICCAI2023:

Revisiting distillation for continual learning on visual question localized-answering in robotic surgery

L Bai, M Islam, H Ren*

Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2023
Rectifying noisy labels with sequential prior: multi-scale temporal feature affinity learning for robust video segmentation

B Cui, M Zhang, M Xu, A Wang, W Yuan*, H Ren*

Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2023
Co-attention gated vision-language embedding for visual question localized-answering in robotic surgery

L Bai, M Islam, H Ren*

Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2023
LLCaps: learning to illuminate low-light capsule endoscopy with curved wavelet attention and reverse diffusion

L Bai, T Chen, Y Wu, A Wang, M Islam, H Ren*

Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2023
S2ME: Spatial-Spectral Mutual Teaching and Ensemble Learning for Scribble-supervised Polyp Segmentation

A Wang, M Xu, Y Zhang, M Islam, H Ren*

arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.00451, MICCAI2023
SurgicalGPT: End-to-End Language-Vision GPT for visual question answering in surgery

L Seenivasan, M Islam, G Kannan, H Ren*

arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.09974, MICCAI2023

Team presentations and award at ICRA2023

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Congratulations to the following members for the papers accepted by ICRA2023 and presentations at  ICRA2023:

Surgical-VQLA: transformer with gated vision-language embedding for visual question localized-answering in robotic surgery

L Bai, M Islam, L Seenivasan, H Ren*

arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.11692, ICRA 2023

Rethinking Feature Extraction: Gradient-Based Localized Feature Extraction for End-To-End Surgical Downstream Tasks

W Pang, M Islam, S Mitheran, L Seenivasan, M Xu, H Ren
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 7 (4), 12623-12630
Congratulations on the excellent work done and poster award in ICRA workshop New Evolutions in Surgical Robotics: Embracing Multimodal Imaging Guidance, Intelligence, and Bio-inspired Mechanisms held at ICRA 2023.
  • Domain Adaptive Sim-to-Real Segmentation of Oropharyngeal Organs Towards Robot-assisted Intubation, Guankun Wang, Tian-Ao Ren, Jiewen Lai, Long Bai, and Hongliang Ren
  • Relational Reasoning in VQA Models for Visual Question Answering in Robotic Surgery, Lalithkumar and Hongliang Ren
https://www.icra2023.org/

Team award at 48th International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva

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Our Team (Ruoyi, Jiewen, et al..) project Vision-guided Fiberoptic Nasotracheal Intubation Robot won Silver Medal, at the 48th International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva,  in April 2023!

The project was also showcased at

  • 2023, June, Interview with TVB New Technology Health Information新科技健康資訊 for Intubation Robot
  • 2023, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, HKTDC Hong Kong International Medical and Healthcare Fair, 16-18 May

Dr Ren Won Healthy Longevity Catalyst Award 2022

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Dr. Ren won the Healthy Longevity Catalyst Award (Hong Kong) 2022 with research on intragastric balloons.

More information can be found at:

https://healthylongevitychallenge.org/winners/swallowable-encapsuled-multi-stable-intragastric-balloons-for-obesity-treatment-semibot/

CUHK bags three wins at Healthy Longevity Catalyst Awards (Hong Kong) 2022

https://www.orkts.cuhk.edu.hk/en/news-events/announcements/3429-cuhk-bags-three-wins-at-healthy-longevity-catalyst-awards-hong-kong-2022
CUHK bags three wins at Healthy Longevity Catalyst Awards (Hong Kong) 2022 Scholars from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) won three awards at the Healthy Longevity Catalyst Awards (Hong Kong) 2022.

3 papers accepted by MICCAI2022

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Congratulations to the following members for the papers accepted by MICCAI2022:

  • An et al Rethinking Surgical Instrument Segmentation: A Background Image Can Be All You Need
  • Lalith et al Surgical-VQA: Visual Question Answering in Surgical Scenes using Transformer
  • Mengya et al Rethinking Surgical Captioning: End-to-End Window-Based MLP Transformer Using Patches

 

Team awards at The 8th Hong Kong University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition

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Our Team projects Modular Parallel Robot and Magnetic Capsule won awards at The 8th Hong Kong University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, organized by Hong Kong New Generation Cultural Association, on May 27-28, 2022!

Third-place Award: Magnetic Capsule, Presented by Sishen
Merit Award: Modular Parallel Robot, Presented by Wenchao

 

Team presentations at ICRA2022

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Congratulations to the following members for the 3 papers accepted by ICRA2022 and presentations at  ICRA2022:

Godwin: Chip-Less Real-Time Wireless Sensing of Endotracheal Intubation Tubes by Printing and Mounting Conformable Antenna Tag 

Lalith: Global-Reasoned Multi-Task Learning Model for Surgical Scene Understanding

Ling: SIRNet: Fine-Grained Surgical Interaction Recognition

Godwin and Lalith are presenting at ICRA on site this year:
https://www.icra2022.org/