About
Dr. Hao Chen is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He leads the SMART Lab focusing on trustworthy artificial intelligence for healthcare and serves as Associate Director in Center of Medical Imaging and Analysis. He obtained the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship in 2013 and received the PhD degree from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 2017. He was a postdoctoral research fellow in CUHK and a visiting scholar in Utrecht University Medical Center previously. His research interests include medical image analysis, artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision and bioinformatics. He has over 100 peer-reviewed publications (Google Scholar Citations 16,500+, h-index 57) in MICCAI, IEEE-TMI, MIA, CVPR, AAAI, Radiology, Lancet Digital Health, Nature Machine Intelligence, JAMA, etc. He received several premium awards including the MICCAI Young Scientist Impact Award in 2019 and a number of best paper awards. He also has rich industrial research experience and holds a dozen of patents. He serves as an Associate Editor of multiple journals including IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Neurocomputing, Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, Medical Physics, etc. He also served as a program committee (PC) member of multiple international conferences including Area Chair of MICCAI 2021 & 2022, ISBI 2022, MIDL 2022 and Senior PC of AAAI 2022, etc. During the past few years, he led his team winning 15+ medical grand challenges.
Research Interests
Medical image analysisArtificial intelligenceMachine learningComputervision
Last updated: 4/10/2026