About me

I’m a Ph.D Student (2022 Fall) in CSE of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) supervised by Prof. Hao CHEN. Before that, I obtained the B.Eng and Msc. degree in CS, SCUT in 2019 and 2022.

News

  • [04/2024] One paper was accepted by TCSVT.
  • [01/2024] One paper was accepted by ICLR 2024 as Spotlight paper!!
  • [07/2023] One paper was accepted by ICCV 2023!!
  • [08/2022] I start Ph.D at SMARTLab@HKUST on 2022 Fall.
  • [06/2022] I received my master degree at SCUT.
  • [06/2021] I start internship at Tencent AI Lab under the supervison of Dr. De Cai and Xiao Han.
  • [12/2020] I’m honored with National Scholarship.

Education

08/2022 - present    HKUST, Hong Kong, China
PhD in Computer Science and Engineering
09/2019 - 06/2022    South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China
Master in Computer Science and Technology
09/2015 - 06/2019    South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China
Bachelor in Computer Science and Technology

Experience

06/2021 - 09/2021    Tencent AI Lab, Shenzhen, China
Intern researcher on Computer Vision, Computational Cervical Cytology

Research Interests

Multimodal Learning (e.g. Fusion, Missing Modality, Prompting and Foundation Model Pretraining), Survival Analysis, Optimal Transport and Domain Adaptation/Generalization


(^: Equally Contributed, *: Corresponding Authors)

Preprint

iMD4GC: Incomplete Multimodal Data Integration to Advance Precise Treatment Response Prediction and Survival Analysis for Gastric Cancer
Fengtao Zhou, Yingxue Xu, Yanfen Cui, Shenyan Zhang, Yun Zhu, Weiyang He, Jiguang Wang, Xin Wang, Ronald Chan, Louis Ho Shing Lau, Chu Han, Dafu Zhang, Zhenhui Li, Hao Chen*
[Arxiv], 2024

Selected Publications [Full List]

Prototypical Information Bottlenecking and Disentangling for Multimodal Cancer Survival Prediction
Yilan Zhang^, Yingxue Xu^ (Co-first author), Jianqi Chen, Fengying Xie, Hao Chen*
ICLR (Spotlight, top-5%), 2024
[Paper], [Arxiv], [Code].

Multimodal Optimal Transport-based Co-Attention Transformer with Global Structure Consistency for Survival Prediction
Yingxue Xu, Hao Chen*
ICCV, 2023
[Paper], [ArXiv], [Code].

Modeling Hierarchical Structural Distance for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation
Yingxue Xu, Guihua Wen, Yang Hu, Pei Yang*
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), 2024
[Paper], [Arxiv]

Task-Coupling Elastic Learning for Physical Sign-based Medical Image Classification (Perspective Featured Article)
Yingxue Xu, Guihua Wen*, Pei Yang, Baochao Fan, Yang Hu, Mingnan Luo, Changjun Wang
IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 2021
[Paper]

Multiple Attentional Pyramid Networks for Chinese Herbal Recognition
Yingxue Xu, Guihua Wen*, Yang Hu, Mingnan Luo, Dan Dai, Yishan Zhuang, Wendy Hall,
Pattern Recognition, 2020
[Paper]

Teaching

Course

2023 SpringTACOMP2011 - Programming with C++
2023 FallTACOMP1021 - Introduction to Computer Science

Advised Mentee

  • Yilan Zhang (05/2023 - present, M.S. in Beihang University)
  • Yihui Wang (06/2023 - present, Ph.D in HKUST)
  • Chenyu Zhao (08/2023 - present, MPhil in HKUST)
  • KWOK Sze Heng Douglas (01/2023 - 08/2023, UG in HKUST)