Jintai Chen

Jintai Chen

Assistant Professor at HKUST(GZ)/HKUST; Passionate about AI for Healthcare.

Hey, I am Jintai Chen, a tenure-track assistant professor at HKUST, guangzhou campus.

Prior to that, I am a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where I collaborated closely with Prof. Jimeng Sun. I obtained my Ph.D. from the College of Computer Science and Technology at Zhejiang University, under the supervision of Prof. Jian Wu. My research interests lie at the intersection of AI and healthcare, with a particular focus on developing generalizable foundation models and generative models to address real-world medical challenges, including clinical trial optimization, biomedical discovery, clinical predictive modeling, and health monitoring.

I am actively seeking highly motivated Ph.D. students, research assistants, and postdoctoral researchers with strong backgrounds in computer science, statistics, or other related subjects. Proficiency in coding is required.

For Ph.D. applications, please fill out the form.

For research assistant applications, please fill out the form.

For postdoc applications, please email me directly at jtchen147[AT]gmail[DOT]com.

For MPhil students, please contact me after passing the interview with the school’s Red Bird MPhil committee.

📄 Selected Publications

(*: Equal contribution; $\dagger$: Corresponding author(s))

The full list can be accessed on Google Scholar.

I. Clinical Predictive Modelling

◦ Biosignal Processing

◦ Medical Image Analysis

◦ Multi-modal EHR Analysis

II. AI for Drug Development

◦ Protein and Drug Design

◦ Clinical Trial Design

  • [AAAI|Oral] ProtCLIP: Function-Informed Protein Multi-Modal Learning, Hanjing Zhou$^*$, Mingze Yin$^*$, Wei Wu, Mingyang Li, Kun Fu, Jintai Chen$^\dagger$, Jian Wu$^\dagger$, Zheng Wang$^\dagger$, AAAI Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, 2025

  • [HDS] Multi-modal CLIP-informed protein editing, Mingze Yin$^*$, Hanjing Zhou$^*$, Yiheng Zhu, Miao Lin, Yixuan Wu, Jialu Wu, Hongxia Xu, Chang-Yu Hsieh, Tingjun Hou$^\dagger$, Jintai Chen$^\dagger$, Jian Wu$^\dagger$, Health Data Science, 2024

III. General AI Methodology

🎖 Awards

  • 2023.04, Excellent Doctoral Graduates of Zhejiang Province, China (Top 1%)
  • 2023.04, Excellent Doctoral Graduates of Zhejiang University (Top 1%)
  • 2023.04, 产学研合作创新成果奖，浙江省产学研合作创新与促进奖
  • 2023.02, 医学影像智能处理关键技术创新与应用, 产学研合作创新成果二等奖, 中国产学研合作促进会
  • 2023.02, 科技进步二等奖，中国电子学会
  • 2022.10, Huawei Fundamental Research Scholarship (Top 3%)
  • 2021.10, Tencent Doctoral Scholarship (Top 1%)
  • 2021.10, National Scholarship of China (Top 1%)
  • 2020.10, Outstanding Doctoral Student Scholarship (Top 3%)
  • 2019.10, Doctoral Freshman Scholarship (Top 3%)
  • 2016.10, Chinese Bank Scholarship (Undergraduate) (Top 1%)
  • 2015.10, National Scholarship (Undergraduate) (Top 1%)

💬 Talks

  • 2024.12, Advanced Guidelines and Principles for Academic Writing, @International Campus of SCUT
  • 2024.12, AI for Healthcare: New Perspectives and New Applications, @International Campus of SCUT
  • 2024.11, From Single-Modality to Multi-Modality Learning: Shaping the Future of Digital Medicine, @ Datathon Challenge, Beijing
  • 2022.11, How to Excel in AI-for-healthcare Researches, @ Shanghai University
  • 2022.10, ECG Signal Processing and Synthesis for Computer-Aided Heart Disease Diagnosis, @ Carnegie Mellon University
  • 2022.10, ECG Synthesis for New View and New Data, @ Shanghai AI Lab
  • 2022.09, Part-Hierarchy Learning, @ ByteDance
  • 2022.06, Supervised Tabular Learning, @ UberAI
  • 2021.10, Domain Mixup for Distant Transfer Learning, @ Shanghai Jiaotong University

🏫 Courses

  • AIAA1010 - Academic Orientation for Al Students (Spring 2025)
  • AIAA6011B - Frontier of “AI for Healthcare” (Spring 2025)
  • AIAA6101 - Artificial Intelligence Seminar (Spring 2025)

🔎 Professional Services

  • Reviewer @ ML/AI/AI4H Conferences: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, KDD, AAAI, IJCAI, ACM MM, AISTATS, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ACL, EMNLP, MICCAI, ISBI.
  • Area Chair/Senior Program Chair: IJCAI;
  • Review for Journals: TPAMI, TNNLS, TCBB, JBHI, Frontiers in Public Health, JBSM, TCDS, Frontiers in Genetics
  • Guest Editor for Journals: JBHI, spj Health Data Science
  • Executive Board Member of the Digital Medicine Symposium within the China Computer Federation
  • Committee Member of the Computer Academy of Guangdong
  • Committee Member of the Guangdong Respiratory and Health Association
  • Workshop Organization: ICLR 2025 Workshop on AI for Children: Healthcare, Psychology, Education (AI4CHL) , Corresponding organizer, [website]
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