Zhi-Ri Tang 汤知日

School of Intelligent Systems Science and Engineering, Jinan University
暨南大学智能科学与工程学院

Email: gerintang@163.com; tangzhiri@jnu.edu.cn

Brief Introduction | Position | Recent Publications | Awards | Professional Activities |

Brief Introduction

  • Zhi-Ri Tang is an Associate Professor at School of Intelligent Systems Science and Engineering, Jinan University. His current research area is forward-deployed engineering (FDE) of artificial intelligence, including biomedical engineering, embodied intelligence, and low-altitude economics. In recent years, he has authored or co-authored many papers in refereed journals and conferences, including 3 ESI highly cited papers. He has also won the silver medal and first prize in the 2018 Intel InnovateFPGA Global Innovation Competition in the Greater China Regional Final, and first price in 2024 ASC Student Supercomputer Challenge Finals (as advisor).
  • 汤知日,暨南大学智能科学与工程学院副教授,研究生导师,入选国家级青年人才、广东省海外人才支持项目。 主要的研究方向为人工智能现场部署工程(Forward Deployed Engineering, FDE),包括生物医学工程/具身智能/低空经济等,相关研究成果在行业知名SCI期刊及国际会议上发表论文多篇,其中3篇入选ESI高被引论文。 曾获2018年Intel InnovateFPGA全球创新大赛大中华区决赛银牌及一等奖,作为指导老师获得2024年ASC全球大学生超算比赛一等奖。
  • Opening: 本课题组长期招募优秀本科生和研究生,研究方向主要为人工智能现场部署工程(Forward Deployed Engineering, FDE),包括将人工智能应用于智慧医疗/药物研发/具身智能/低空经济等,内容涉及在软件/硬件层面对图像/信号/离散数据等进行处理,欢迎感兴趣的同学邮件与我联系!

Position

  • 2024.2-now                 Associate Professor at School of Intelligent Systems Science and Engineering, Jinan University, China.
  • 2022.3-2022.8            Visiting Researcher at Academy for Engineering and Technology, Fudan University, China.

Recent Publications

  • H Gao, Y Zheng, L Xiao, Y Chen, K Song, W Wu, ZR Tang, Thermal-Physics Inspired Cross-Modal Alignment for AAV-Based RGB-T Salient Object Detection, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 2026.
  • X Liu, Q Jin, TT Zhang, ZR Tang, Y Chen, Z Liu, Category-Guided Vision-Language Model for IoMT-Enabled Medical Report Generation under Heterogeneous Imaging Data, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2026.
  • H Gao, Y Zheng, M Song, L Xiao, TT Zhang, ZR Tang, G-SalAlignMamba: Geometry-Aware Vision Mamba for Dual-Modal Salient Object Detection, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2026.
  • P Guo, T Zhang, X Lin, X Li, ZR Tang, Q Zhang, Few-for-Many Personalized Federated Learning, Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2026.
  • R Hu, ZR Tang, R Yang, A joint lightly perturbation and synthesizing optimization attack framework for point cloud perturbation, Applied Soft Computing, 2024.
  • Z Yu, X Li, J Li, W Chen, ZR Tang, D Geng, HSA-net with a novel CAD pipeline boosts both clinical brain tumor MR image classification and segmentation, Computers in Biology and Medicine, 2024.
  • R Hu, ZR Tang, R Yang, Z Wang, MDSSN: An end-to-end deep network on triangle mesh parameterization, Knowledge-Based Systems, 2024.
  • ZR Tang, HS Wong, Z Yu, Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning with Domain Adaptation for Multi-Disease Ocular Disease Recognition, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 2023.
  • K Hua, X Fang, ZR Tang, Y Cheng, Z Yu, DCAM-NET: A novel domain generalization optic cup and optic disc segmentation pipeline with multi-region and multi-scale convolution attention mechanism, Computers in Biology and Medicine, 2023.
  • Z Wang, ZR Tang, J Zhang, Y Fang, Toward a blind image quality evaluator in the wild by learning beyond human opinion scores, Pattern Recognition, 2023.

Awards

Scholarship and honors:

  • WILEY Top Cited Article Award, 2024
  • Outstanding Academic Performance Award (OAPA), City University of Hong Kong, 2020, 2021
  • Research Tuition Scholarship (RTS), City University of Hong Kong, 2020-2021, 2021-2022, 2022-2023
  • Research Studentship (HKPFS Reward Studentship and TA Scheme), City University of Hong Kong, 2019-2023
  • Outstanding Graduate, Wuhan University, 2019
  • Outstanding Scholarship, Wuhan University, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018
  • Outstanding Student, Wuhan University, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018

Competitions:

  • First Price (Rank 7 of over 300 teams), 2024 ASC Student Supercomputer Challenge Finals (as advisor), 2024
  • Second Prize (Rank 16-32 of over 200 teams) in the Preliminaries, International Collegiate Competition for Brain-Inspired Computing (ICCBC), 2019
  • Award of Excellence (Rank 7 of over 500 teams), Intel InnovateFPGA Global Innovation Competition in Global Grand Final, 2018
  • Silver Medal and First Prize (Rank 2 of over 200 teams), Intel InnovateFPGA Global Innovation Competition in Greater China Regional Final, 2018
  • First Prize (Rank 1 of over 30 teams), the 12th Wuhan University “HUAWEI Cup” Graduate Students Electronic Design Competition, 2018
  • Third Prize, the 6th National Undergraduate Students Integrated Circuit Design Competition, 2016

Professional Activities

Journal Served:

  • Leading Guest Editor, Mathematics, Special Issue on "AI-Driven Innovations in Healthcare: Advances in Machine Learning and Computer Vision", 2024-2025
  • Academic Editor, Scientific Programming, 2022-2024
  • Topic Coordinator, Frontiers in Neuroscience/Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, Research Topic on "Advanced Deep Learning Approaches for Medical Neuroimaging Data with Limitation", 2023
  • Associate Editor, Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022
  • Guest Editor Assistant, Telecom, Special issue on "Security and Privacy Countermeasures for Internet of Things (IoT)", 2021

Conference Served:

  • International Program Committee, 2026 10th International Conference on Intelligent Systems, Metaheuristics & Swarm Intelligence (ISMSI 2026), Cebu City, Philippines, Apr. 24-26, 2026
  • Session Chair in Zero-Trust Cloud-Native Security & Privacy Computing, The 5th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Information Processing and Cloud Computing (AIIPCC 2025), Zhuhai, China, Dec. 18-20, 2025
  • Publicity Chairs (and Session Chairs in Systems and Applications for Intelligent Networked Things), 2025 The Conference on Intelligent Networked Things (CINT 2025), Zhuhai, China, Jun. 10-12, 2025
  • International Program Committee, 2025 9th International Conference on Intelligent Systems, Metaheuristics & Swarm Intelligence (ISMSI 2025), Tokyo, Japan, Apr. 26-28, 2025
  • Program Committee, The 29th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP 2022), New Delhi, India, Nov. 22-26, 2022
  • Program Committee, The 4th International Conference on Science of Cyber Security (SciSec 2022), Shimane, Japan, Aug. 10-12, 2022
  • Technical Program Committee, The 1st International Workshop on Security and Privacy for Sustainable Development Goals in The 31st International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2022), Honolulu, USA, Jul. 25-28, 2022
  • International Program Committee, 2022 9th International Conference on Soft Computing & Machine Intelligence (ISCMI 2022), Toronto, Canada, Nov. 26-27, 2022

Membership:

  • IEEE Member (S'20, M'24), 2020-
  • IEEE Young Professionals, 2020-
  • EAI Member, 2021-