Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

The candidate will be working on medical 3D-related topics. Research directions include Computer Vision, medical image computing, 3D scene understanding, and reconstruction, encompassing areas such as XR/AR/VR, 3D reconstruction techniques for clinical decision support and diagnosis, medical image analysis, and interdisciplinary fields involving robotic surgery intelligence.
Our MMAI group (https://www.monash.edu/mmai-group/home) has previously published works in top academic conferences and journals such as JAMA, The Lancet, Nature, MICCAI, CVPR, ACL, EMNLP, AAAI, KDD, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICCV, TPAMI, MIA, Bioinformatics, among others. Feel free to reach out if this opportunity piques your interest!

20172025

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Personal profile

Biography

Dr. Xuelian Cheng currently is a Research Fellow at Monash Suzhou and an Adjunct Lecturer at Monash University Australia. Prior to this role, She completed my PhD at Monash University under the guidance of A/Prof. Zongyuan Ge , A/Prof. Mehrtash Harandi , and Prof. Tom Drummond . She had contributed to diverse research projects with industrial companies including Tencent (Canberra XR lab), IIAI, Airdoc and SenseTime. The outcomes resulted in publications in top ML/CV and medical imaging conferences. She had the opportunity to work remotely as a research intern at IIAI and work with scholars at MBZUAI (April 2021 to October 2021). She worked as a research intern at Tencent XR Lab in Canberra, Australia (August 2022 to February 2023).  

Research Interests

Previous representative works include deep learning for 3D visual perception and reconstruction, automated machine learning (AutoML), video analysis and object detection. With a keen interest in the interdisciplinary realm of machine learning, computer vision, medical image analysis, and robotic surgery intelligence, she aspires to leverage her expertise in ML/CV to pioneer novel approaches for disease detection, diagnosis, and monitoring, as well as surgical interventions. Her focus extends to the application of visual medical data (AR/VR/XR) technologies for educational purposes, aiming to make significant strides in enhancing patient outcomes and revolutionizing medical practice.
 
Accepting prospective PhD students. If you're interested in working with me, please send an email including your CV and transcripts. [2024 On Hold]

Teaching Experience

Lecturer

FIT5047 Fundamentals of artificial intelligence, S1, Monash University (Suzhou), 2025↝

FIT5226 Multi agent systems and collective behaviour, S1, Monash University (Suzhou), 2025↝

FIT5216 Modelling discrete optimization problems, S1, Monash University (Suzhou), 2024↝2025

FIT5037 Network security, T3, Monash University (Suzhou), 2024↝2025

FIT5222 Planning and automated reasoning, T3, Monash University (Suzhou), 2024↝

Teaching Assistant

ECE4179 Neural networks and deep learning, Monash University (Clayton), 2020↝2022

ECE4076 Computer vision, Monash University (Clayton), 2020↝2022

 

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being

Research area keywords

  • Computer Vision
  • Medical Imaging
  • Machine Learning

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