About me
I am a third-year PhD student at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), working on reliability, fairness, and trustworthiness of machine learning systems in medical imaging, advised by Aasa Feragen and Siavash Bigdeli.
My research centers on the reliability, interpretability, and fairness of ML systems in medical imaging. I have extensive experience with diffusion-based generative models, vision models (including VLMs), and bias detection methods.
News
- Jan, 2026 Patronus paper got accepted by ICLR 2026:) I am happy that it does not need to get through the ICML reviewing process again. My feeling about this acceptance is complicated; I am working on a side project about it and hopefully I will finish it before Feb and release it (it’s my reflection on our current publication model).
- Dec, 2025 Awww I was apparently very lazy in updating here! Several things I would like to mention:
- After join RISE-MICCAI and High5Girls, amazing things happened! For RISE-MICCAI, as an storytelling coordinator, the idea is that: true life journey warm and encourage people, thus we aim at collect and share those inspiring stories especially from researchers from LMIC countries. We have already have 2 episodes with Dr. Andrea Lara and Dr. Islem Rekik. You can check our Youtube@RISEMICCAI and Spotify! For High5Girls, we held the first course about personal data where we build tools for girls to visualize their personal data (e.g. Duolinguo, Spotify) and analysis those! (privacy is considered; we have zero access to girls’ data) I learned so much from the girls!!
- We wrapped up our paper on failure mode reasoning with subgroup discovery method for segmentation (which I did in Luzern! Oh my I truly miss there!) and submitted to somewhere. This is very first time I tried benchmarking something and taxonomizing based on the literature. It was very challenging, and there is definitely a lot more to do as follow-ups..
- We successfully organized the MedEurIPS workshop @ EurIPS! It was such an wonderful day, the 3 keynotes perfectly matches how I would like to see when talk about research on ML for medicine. Gathering with old friends and meeting new friends.. I truly grateful to be a part of the orginizing team!!
- I am now very close to the end of my PhD, the recent months is less exciting nor stressful than I thought it would be. Instead, I feel confused and overwhelmed, and tons of thoughts are in my mind every single day. I wonder whether it is just me or if this also happens to others. Feel free to reach out if you want to chat! I see this website as a safe place—having a personal website sounds so old-school, and I bet not that many people would really take a look 👀, right?!
- May, 2025. Grateful for the chance to contribute a bit more to equity — I’ve joined High5Girls as a role model and RISE-MICCAI as storytelling coordinator:)
- Mar, 2025. Happy to share our latest preprint: 🪄 Patronus: Bringing Transparency to Diffusion Models with Prototypes. We explore prototype-based explanations for diffusion models and how they can help diagnose spurious correlations — and yes, the code’s out too!
- Mar, 2025. I started my external research stay at the University of Luzern! I will be supervised by Christian F. Baumgartner and work with his team. This is my second time living in Switzerland—what a destiny! :)
- Oct, 2024. Manxi and I presented our paper Shortcut Learning in Medical Image Segmentation at MICCAI 2024 in Morocco. Together with Aasa, Tareen and many others, we also successfully organized the FAIMI workshop (again;) there.
This is the first time MICCAI was held in Africa – a milestone worth celebrating. Yet, knowing that only 40 out of 2,869 papers were submitted by Africa-based institutes was a stark reminder of the deep global disparities in research participation. Progress toward true inclusivity in science is still a long, long journey to go.. - Sep, 2024. Our paper, Fast Diffusion-Based Counterfactuals for Shortcut Removal and Generation (co-first-author with Paraskevas), has been accepted for an oral presentation at ECCV! After a long journey filled with ups and downs, it’s incredibly rewarding to see our work recognized (so far a bit) by the conference community. Can not wait to present and have (hopefully many!) interesting discussions in Milan this September 🍕
- Aug, 2024. After more than one-year’s procrastination, I finally recreated my personal webpage (this one!). I used Quarto to build it – it’s incredibly simple and includes the function to integrate code into the blogs, which I’m looking forward to trying out in a near (!) future.
