I am currently a 4th year (2021-) Ph.D. candidate at Robotics, Embodied AI, and Navigation In-vivo Lab, Department of Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, supervised by Prof. Hongliang Ren. Previously, I was an Embedded Software Engineer at Continental Automotive in Singapore. Before that, I worked with Prof. Chengkuo Lee in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore and received my M.Sc. degree in 2019. From 2014 to 2018, I studied at Soochow University and received B.Eng. degree in Information Engineering.
My research focuses on efficient & robust medical image analysis and intelligent robotic surgery. I am recently interested in Visual Foundation Models, Multi-modal LLM, and Embodied AI. I am always open to discussions and collaborations, so please feel free to reach out to me via email if you have any questions or would like to explore potential collaborations.
🔥 News
- 2025.06: One paper on semi-supervised polyp segmentation is accepted by Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics (CMIG).
- 2025.03: Two papers on ESD Dissection Trajectory Prediction and Dissection Zone Segmentation are accepted at ICRA 2025 and IPCAI 2025, respectively.
- 2024.10: Two papers on vision-guided robotic surgery have been accepted at IEEE ROBIO 2024.
- 2024.08: One paper “Benchmarking Robustness of Endoscopic Depth Estimation with Synthetically Corrupted Data” has been accepted at the Simulation and Synthesis in Medical Imaging (SASHIMI) workshop at MICCAI 2024.
- 2023.08: Our paper “SAM Meets Robotic Surgery: An Empirical Study on Generalization, Robustness and Adaptation” has been accepted as an Oral Presentation at the MedAGI workshop, MICCAI 2023.
- 2023.06: Our paper “Generalizing Surgical Instruments Segmentation to Unseen Domains with One-to-Many Synthesis” is accepted by IROS-2023.
- 2023.06: One paper about robust medical image segmentation is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering.
- 2023.05: One paper about annotation-efficient polyp segmentation was early accepted by MICCAI-2023.
- 2022.06: One paper about synthetic data generation from limited sources is accepted by MICCAI-2022.
📝 Publications
*: First author; **: Corresponding author
Conference Papers
Benchmarking Robustness of Endoscopic Depth Estimation with Synthetically Corrupted Data
An Wang*, Haochen Yin, Beilei Cui, Mengya Xu, and Hongliang Ren**
MICCAI 2024 Simulation and Synthesis in Medical Imaging (SASHIMI) Workshop
Web-based Augmented Reality with Auto-Scaling and Real-Time Head Tracking towards Markerless Neurointerventional Preoperative Planning and Training of Head-mounted Robotic Needle Insertion
Hon Lung Ho*, Yupeng Wang*, An Wang*, Long Bai, and Hongliang Ren**
IEEE ROBIO 2024
Journal Papers
Surgical-VQLA++: Adversarial contrastive learning for calibrated robust visual question-localized answering in robotic surgery
Long Bai, Guankun Wang, Mobarakol Islam, Lalithkumar Seenivasan, An Wang, Hongliang Ren
Information Fusion, 2024 paper | code
Preprints
SAM 2 in Robotic Surgery: An Empirical Evaluation for Robustness and Generalization in Surgical Video Segmentation
Jieming Yu, An Wang, Wenzhen Dong, Mengya Xu, Mobarakol Islam, Jie Wang, Long Bai, Hongliang Ren
Endo-TTAP: Robust Endoscopic Tissue Tracking via Multi-Facet Guided Attention and Hybrid Flow-point Supervision
Rulin Zhou*, Wenlong He*, An Wang*, Qiqi Yao, Haijun Hu, Jiankun Wang, Xi Zhang and Hongliang Ren**
IEEE RAL (In submission)
VL-SurgPT: Bridging Vision and Language for Robust Surgical Point Tracking
Rulin Zhou*, Wenlong He*, An Wang*, Xuanhui Zeng, Jianhang Zhang, Xi Zhang, Chaowei Zhu, Haijun Hu**, and Hongliang Ren**
ACM MM Dataset (Under Review)
EndoControlMag: Robust Endoscopic Vascular Motion Magnification with Periodic Reference Resetting and Hierarchical Tissue-aware Dual-Mask Control
An Wang*, Rulin Zhou*, Mengya Xu*, Yiru Ye, Longfei Gou, Yiting Chang, Hao Chen, Chwee Ming Lim, Jiankun Wang, Hongliang Ren**
Medical Image Analysis (Under Review)
Book Chapter
3D Reconstruction of Deformable Tissues in Robotic Surgery
Mengya Xu, Tiebing Tang, Ziqi Guo, An Wang, Beilei Cui, Long Bai, Hongliang Ren
Handbook of Robotic Surgery, 2024
🎖 Honors and Awards
- 2024.09, SUSTech Fellowship
- 2018.06, Excellent Graduate of Soochow University
📖 Educations
- 2021.10 - now, Ph.D. Candidate, Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
- 2018.08 - 2019.06, M.Sc., Electrical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- 2014.09 - 2018.06, B.Eng., Information Engineering, Soochow University, Suzhou, China
💻 Teaching Assistant
- Embedded Systems Design, 2024.09 - 2024.12
- Intelligent Interactive Robot Practice, 2024.01 - 2024.05
- Intelligent Wearable Electronics, 2023.01 - 2023.05
- Probability for Engineers, 2021.09 - 2021.12, 2022.09 - 2022.12, 2023.09 - 2023.12
- Robotic Perception and Intelligence, 2022.01 - 2022.05