Chen J, Guo Y, Guo H, Wang Y, Yin R, Better Listening through Seeing? Origins and Theory-Driven Solution to Multimodal Cognitive Conflict in Image Generation, INFORMS Workshop on Data Science, San Francisco, CA. Nov. 2026
Zhu W, Chen X, Wang Z, Wang J, Dong X, Cai R, Sang H, Wang H, Qiu P, Deng Y, Huang M, Tiwari P, Rappazzo BH, Wang Y, AriadneMem: Threading the Maze of Lifelong Memory for LLM Agents, Workshop on Efficient Reasoning, Conference on Language Modeling (COLM), Oct. 2026
Zhu W, Dong X, Chen X, Cai R, Qiu P, Wang Z, Frunza O, Deng Y, Tang S, Gu J, Wang Y, Your Agent is More Brittle Than You Think: Efficiently Mitigating Indirect Injections in Agentic LLMs, Workshop on Efficient Reasoning, Conference on Language Modeling (COLM), Oct. 2026
Chen J, Guo Y, Guo H, Wang Y, Yin R, Better Listening through Seeing? Origins and Theory-Driven Solution to Multimodal Cognitive Conflict in Image Generation. Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST) , San Francisco, CA, Oct. 2026
Chen Y, Zhu W, Chen X, Wang Z, Li X, Qiu P, Wang H, Dong X, Xiong Y, Schneider, A, Nevmyaka Y, Wang Y, AHA: Aligning Large Audio-Language Models for Reasoning Hallucinations via Counterfactual Hard Negatives, The 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, (ACL) Findings, July 2026
Chen X, Zhu W, Qiu P, Dong X, Wang H, Wu H, Li H, Sotiras A, Wang Y, Razi A, DRA-GRPO: Your GRPO Needs to Know Diverse Reasoning Paths for Mathematical Reasoning, The 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, (ACL) Findings, July 2026
Chen X, Zhu W, Li G, Dong X, Xiong Y, Wang H, Qiu P, Song Q, Wang Z, Tang S, Wang Y, Razi A, OTPrune: Distribution-Aligned Visual Token Pruning via Optimal Transport, In IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Findings Workshop, Denver, CO, June 2026.
Dong X, Zhu W, Wang H, Chen X, Qiu P, Yin R, Su Y, Wang Y, Talk Before You Retrieve: Agent-Led Discussions for better RAG in Medical QA, Workshop on Multi-Agent Learning and Its Opportunities in the Era of Generative AI, the Fourteen Internation Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), Apr. 2026
Xiong Y, Dong X, Zhu W, Li X, Dumitrascu OM, Wang Y, SGW-GAN: Sliced Gromov-Wasserstein Guided GANs for Retinal Fundus Image Enhancement, Workshop on Pixels to Patients: Bridging CV State-of-Art with Clinical Impact, IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACVW), Tucson AZ, Mar. 2026. [Oral]
Dong X, Zhu W, Xiong Y, Chen X, Wang H, Li X, Cheng J, Wang Z, Tang S, Dumitrascu OM, Wang Y, VAOT: Vessel-Aware Optimal Transport for Retinal Fundus Enhancement, Workshop on Pixels to Patients: Bridging CV State-of-Art with Clinical Impact, IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACVW), Tucson AZ, Mar. 2026. [Oral]
Li X, Zhu W, Dong X, Wang H, Xiong Y, Dumitrascu OM, Wang Y, nnMobileNet++: Towards Efficient Hybrid Networks for Retinal Image Analysis, Workshop on Pixels to Patients: Bridging CV State-of-Art with Clinical Impact, IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACVW), Tucson AZ, Mar. 2026.
Dong X, Zhu W, Chen X, Wang H, Li X, Xiong Y, Cheng J, Wang Z, Tang S, Dumitrascu OM, Wang Y, Bridging Restoration and Diagnosis: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Retinal Fundus Enhancement, Workshop on Pixels to Patients: Bridging CV State-of-Art with Clinical Impact, IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACVW), Tucson AZ, Mar. 2026.
Zhu W, Dong X, Li X, Qiu P, Chen X, Northrup W, Razi A, Sotiras A, Su Y, Wang Z, Tang S, Wang Y, What Matters in Reinforcement Learning Based Training for Medical Vision Language Model: An Empirical Study, Workshop on Pixels to Patients: Bridging CV State-of-Art with Clinical Impact, IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACVW), Tucson AZ, Mar. 2026.
Wang H, Zhu W, Tang S, Wang Z, Dong X, Li X, Chen X, Bastola A, Huang X, Wang Y, Razi A, EZBlender: Efficient 3D Editing with Plan-and-ReAct Agent, Workshop on Visual Art, Generative AI, and the Legal/Ethical Dilemma, IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACVW), Tucson AZ, Mar. 2026.
Zhu W, Chen X, Wang Z, Tang S, Ghosh S, Dong X, Koner R, Wang Y, EVTP-IVS: Effective Visual Token Pruning For Unifying Instruction Visual Segmentation In Multi-Modal Large Language Models, IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Tucson AZ, Mar. 2026.
Chen X, Zhu W, Qiu P, Wang H, Li H, Wu H, Sotiras A, Wang Y, Razi A, Prompt-OT: An Optimal Transport Regularization Paradigm for Knowledge Preservation in Vision-Language Model Adaptation, IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Tucson AZ, Mar. 2026.
Chen X, Qiu P, Zhu W, Wang H, Li H, Dong X, Sun X, Yu X, Wang Y, Razi A, Sotiras A, Cracking Instance Jigsaw Puzzles: A Superior Alternative to Multiple Instance Learning for Whole Slide Image Analysis, International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Oct. 2025
Che J, Guo Y, Guo H, Wang Y, Yin R, Better Listening Through Seeing: Theory-Driven Image Generation for Multimodal Online Learning, Summer Workshop on AI for Business (SWAIB), Jul 2025
Yang Z, Zhou M, Shan M, Wen B, Xuan Z, Hill M, Bai H, Qi G-J, Wang Y, OmniMotionGPT: Animal Motion Generation with Limited Data, In IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Seattle, WA, June 2024.
Zhu W, Qiu P, Chen X, Li X, Lepore N, Dumitrascu O, Wang Y, nnMobileNet: Rethinking CNN for Retinopathy Research, Data Curation and Augmentation in Enhancing Medical Imaging Applications Workshop (DCAMI), in conjunction with CVPR 2024, Seattle, WA, June 2024.
Rouhi R, Tanedo J, Wei I M, Valder M, Zanjal S, Gajawelli N, Nelson M, Deoni S, Wang Y, Linguraru M G, Lepore N, Automated Segmentation of the Hippoampus in Pediatric Imaging, 18th International Symposium on Medical Information Processing and Analysis (SIPAIM). Mexico City, Mexico. Nov., 2023
Fu Y, Huang Y, Dong S, Wang Y, Yu T, Niu M, Zhuo C, SFCNEXT: A Simple Fully Convolutional Network for Effective Brain Age Estimation with Small Sample Size, In IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro (ISBI), Apr. 2023
Xiong Y, Tu Y, Lu Z-L, Wang Y, Characterizing visual cortical magnification with topological smoothing and optimal transportation, SPIE Medical Imaging, Feb. 2023
Fan D, Gajawelli N, Paulli A, Perry E, Tanedo J, Deoni S, Linguraru M, Wang Y, and Lepore N, NEC-NET : Segmentation and Feature Extraction Network for the Neurocranium in Early Childhood, 18th International Symposium on Medical Information Processing and Analysis (SIPAIM). Campinas, Brazil. Nov., 2022.
Htite, ED., Gajawelli, N., Saint-Martin, C., Wei, M., Sarah, P., Wang, Y., Wintermark, P., Deoni, S., Lepore, N., Brossard-Racine, M. (2021). Altered hippocampal morphometry in infants born preterm. 17th International Symposium on Medical Information Processing and Analysis (SIPAIM). Campinas, Brazil. Nov., 2021. Platform Presentation.
Mukherjee S Paquette N, Gajawelli N, Wang Y, Wallace J, Nelson MD, Panigrahy A, Lepore N, Deep-learning based tractography for neonates, 16th International Symposium on Medical Information Processing and Analysis (SIPAIM), Lima, Peru, Oct. 2020
Tu Y, Ta D, Lu Z-L, Wang Y, “Diffeomorphic Smoothing for Retinotopic Mapping“, In IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro (ISBI), Apr. 2020 [Oral] (Best Paper Award Finalist)
Mi L, Zhang W, Wang Y, “Regularized Wasserstein Means for Aligning Distributional Data”, Optimal Transport & Machine Learning, a NeurIPS 2019 Workshop, Vancouver, Dec. 2019
Wen C, Lei N, Ma M, Qi X, Zhang W, Wang Y, Gu X, “Surface Foliation Based Brain Morphometry Analysis“, 7th MICCAI Workshop on Mathematical Foundations of Computational Anatomy, in Conjunction with MICCAI, Oct. 2019 [Oral]
Paquette, N., Suri A, Ganesh B, Tsao S, Gaonkar B, Wang Y, Nelson M, Panigrahy A, and Lepore N, “Neonaral Brain MRI Cortical Segmentation via Geodesic Transforms”, in IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI). 2019, IEEE: Venice, Italy
Mi L, Zhang W, Gu X, Wang Y, “Variational Wasserstein Clustering“, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Munich, Germany, Sep. 2018
Gajawelli N, Denoi S, Shi J, Dirks H, Linguraru MG, Nelson MD, Wang Y, Lepore N, Cranial Thickness Changes in Early Childhood, 13th International Symposium on Medical Information Processing and Analysis (SIPAIM), San Andres Island, Colombia, Oct. 2017
Gajawelli N, Deoni S, Dirks H, Dean D, O’Muircheartaigh J, Wang Y, Nelson M, Coulon O, Lepore N, “Central Sulcus Development in Early Childhood“, the 39th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2017
Vlasova R, Gajawelli N, Wang Y, Dirks H, Dean D, O’Muircheataigh J, Lao Y, Yoon J, Nelson M D, Deoni S, Lepore N, “Putamen development in children 12 to 21 months old“, Proc. SPIE 10160, 12th International Symposium on Medical Information Processing and Analysis (SIPAIM), Tandil, Argentina, Dec. 2016
Li Y, Wang J, Yang T, Chen J, Liu L, Zhan L, Hibar DP, Jahanshad N, Wang Y, Zhao S, Thompson PM, Ye J, “Identification of Alzheimer’s Disease Risk Factors by Tree-Structured Group Lasso Screening”, In IEEE International Symposium on BIOMEDICAL IMAGING: From Nano to Macro (ISBI). 2016.
Shi J, Wang Y, Lao Y, Zeschin R, Mi L, Nelson MD, Panigrahy A, Leporé N, “Abnormal Ventricular Development in Preterm Neonates with Visually Normal MRIs”, 11th International Symposium on Medical Information Processing and Analysis (SIPAIM), Nov. 2015, Cuenca, Ecuador
Gajawellia N, Deonic S, Shi J, Xu, L, Dirks, H, Dean D, O’Muircheartaigh, Sawardekar S, Ezis A, Nelson MD, Wang Y, Leporé N, “Changes in Neurocranium Thickness in Early Childhood”, 11th International Symposium on Medical Information Processing and Analysis (SIPAIM), Nov. 2015, Cuenca, Ecuador
Ta D, Shi J, Barton B, Brewer A, Lu Z-L, Wang Y, “Characterizing Human Retinotopic Mapping with Conformal Geometry: Conformal Distortion Analysis”, the 8th International Workshop on High Performance Computing for Biomedical Image Analysis (HPC-MICCAI), 2015
Gajawelli N, Deoni SCL, Dirks H, Dean D, O’Muircheartaigh J, Sawardekar S, Ezis A, Wang Y, Nelson M, Coulon O, Leporé N, “Characterization of the central sulcus in the brain in early childhood”, 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Milano, Italy, Aug. 2015.
Yang T, Wang J, Sun Q, Hibar DP, Jahanshad N, Liu L, Wang Y, Zhan L, Thompson PM, Ye J, “Detecting Genetic Risk Factors for Alzheimer’s Disease in Whole Genome Sequence Data via Lasso Screening.” In IEEE International Symposium on BIOMEDICAL IMAGING: From Nano to Macro. 2015.
Gutman B, Jahanshad N, Ching CRK, Wang Y, Kochunov P, Nichols T, Thompson PM, “Medial Demons Registration Localizes the Degree of Genetic Influence over Subcortical Shape Variability: An N=1480 Meta-Analysis”, In IEEE International Symposium on BIOMEDICAL IMAGING: From Nano to Macro. 2015.
Wade BSC, Valcour V, Busovaca E, Esmaeli-Firidouni P, Joshi SH, Wang Y, Thompson PM, “Subcortical shape and volume abnormalities in an elderly HIV+ cohort”, SPIE, Medical Imaging, 2015
Shi R, Zeng W, Su Z, Damasio H, Lu Z, Wang Y, Yau S.-T. Gu X, Hyperbolic Harmonic Mapping for Constrained Brain Registration, IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pp. 2531-2538, Portland, Oregan, June, 2013 [Oral]
Su Z, Zeng W, Shi R, Wang Y, Sun J, Gu X, Area Preserving Brain Mapping, IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pp. 2235-2242, Portland, Oregan, June, 2013
An X, Liu Z, Shi Y, Li N, Wang Y, Joshi S, “Modeling Dynamic Cellular Morphology in Images”, the 15th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2012, Nice, France, Oct. 2012, Proceedings, Part I. pp. 340-347
Dong B, Mao Y, Dinov ID, Tu Z, Shi Y,Wang Y, Toga AW, “Wavelet-Based Representation of Biological Shapes“, International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC), Part I, Las Vegas, NV, USA, 2009, pp. 955-964
Lui LM, Wang Y, Chan TF, “ PDE on manifold using global conformal parametrization“, Variational, Geometric, and Level Set Methods in Computer Vision: Third International Workshop, VLSM 2005, Beijing, China, Oct. 16, 2005, pp. 307-319
Wang Y, Gu X, Hayashi KM, Chan TF, Thompson PM and Yau S-T, “Brain Surface Parameterization using Riemann Surface Structure“, Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2005: 8th International Conference, Palm Springs, CA, USA, Oct. 26-29, 2005, Proceedings, Part II, pp. 657-665
Wang Y, Lui LM, Chan TF and Thompson PM, “Optimization of Brain Conformal Mapping with Landmarks“, Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2005: 8th International Conference, Palm Springs, CA USA, Oct. 26-29, 2005, Proceedings, Part II, pp. 675-683
Wang Y, Gu X, Hayashi KM, Chan TF, Thompson PM and Yau S-T, “Brain Surface Conformal Parameterization“, Proceedings of the Eighth IASTED International Conference on Computer Graphics and Imaging (CGIM), Honolulu, HI, USA, Aug. 2005, pp. 76-81
Wang Y, Gu X, Chan TF, Thompson PM and Yau S-T “ Volumetric Harmonic Brain Mapping“, IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro (ISBI), Washington D.C., Apr. 2004, pp. 1275-1278
Gu X, Wang Y, and Yau S-T, “ Multiresolution Computation of Conformal Structures of Surfaces“, International Conference on Computer, Communication and Control Technologies: CCCT ’03. This paper won the best paper award in the session: Computing Technologies.
Wang Y, Phillips IT and Haralick RM, “ A Study on the Document Zone Content Classification Problem“, D. Lopresti, Hu J, and R. Kashi (Eds.), Document Image Analysis System V, 5th International Workshop DAS 2002, Princeton, NJ, USA, Aug. 2002. Proceedings, pp. 212 – 223.
Wang Y and Hu J, “ Detecting Tables in HTML Documents“, D. Lopresti, Hu J, and R. Kashi (Eds.), Document Image Analysis System V, 5th International Workshop DAS 2002, Princeton, NJ, USA, Aug. 2002. Proceedings, pp. 249 – 260. This paper won the best student paper award.
Wang Y, Phillips IT and Haralick RM, “ Table Detection Via Probability Optimization“, D. Lopresti, Hu J, and R. Kashi (Eds.), Document Image Analysis System V, 5th International Workshop DAS 2002, Princeton, NJ, USA, Aug. 2002. Proceedings, pp. 272 – 282.
Wang Y, Phillips IT and Haralick RM, “ A Method for Document Zone Content Classification“, 16th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR2002, Vol. 3, pp. 196 – 199, Quebec City, Canada, Aug. 2002.
Wang Y, Phillips IT and Haralick RM, “ Statistical-based Approach to Word Segmentation“, 15th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR2000, Vol. 4, pp.555-558, Barcelona, Spain, September 2000.
Aksoy S, Ye M, Schauf ML, Song M, Wang Y, Haralick RM, and et al., “Algorithm Performance Contest“, 15th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2000, vol. 4, pp. 870-876. Barcelona, Spain, Sep. 2000.
Wang Y, Phillips IT and Haralick RM, “ From Image to SGML/XML Representation: One Method“, International Workshop on Document Layout Interpretation and Its Applications (DLIA’99), Bangalore, India, September 1999