Aug 2024 — present
PhD, Biomedical Engineering
National University of Singapore
Research interests: AI scientists and autonomous discovery, self-evolving AI systems, and generative model collapse under synthetic-data contamination.
Curriculum vitae
Electrical engineering, then machine learning, now a doctorate housed in biomedical engineering — the through-line is generative AI and the conditions under which it fails.
Education
Aug 2020 — May 2022
MSc, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Research interests: machine learning and data analytics.
Aug 2016 — Jun 2020
BEng, Electrical Engineering
Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
Tsien Hsue-shen Class for Top Students.
Research experience
Feb 2024 — present
Associate in Research
Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore
Research at the intersection of AI and the biomedical sciences, focused on automated discovery systems and generative AI applications in healthcare.
Jul 2022 — Oct 2023
Associate in Research
Department of Radiology, Duke University Medical Center
- Human Bone Project. Built a multi-label classification model predicting both bone type and MRI series type (axial / sagittal / coronal); annotated bone MRIs for segmentation training; implemented a 3D bone segmentation model.
- Body Composition Project. Predicted disease risk from CT-based body composition analysis.
Contact
- Email hongyu.h@nus.edu.sg
- Scholar Google Scholar profile
- GitHub github.com/Hongyu-He