Personal profile
Personal profile
Dr. Sifan Song is an Assistant Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. Prior to joining XJTLU, he served as a Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital (2024–2026), working with Dr. Quanzheng Li, Dr. Xiang Li, and Dr. Dufan Wu. His research focuses on representation learning, parameter-efficient fine-tuning, and explainable frameworks for large-scale natural and medical images, with an emphasis on 2D/3D segmentation and generation across CT, MRI, and PET, as well as efficient multimodal learning and the integration of large language models and multi-agent systems for real-world applications.
He received a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Liverpool. He also holds an MSc in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Southampton and an MSc in Bioinformatics from the University of Edinburgh. During his doctoral training, he was a Visiting Doctoral Student with the MIRACLE team at the University of Science and Technology of China (2022–2024), working with Prof. Shaohua (Kevin) Zhou, and a Visiting Doctoral Student at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen) (2019–2020), working with Dr. Jiaming Zhang.
He serves as a reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, and Medical Physics, and regularly reviews for conferences such as AAAI, CVPR, ICLR, NeurIPS, MICCAI, ECCV, WACV, and ISBI. Dr. Song has also collaborated with GE HealthCare on projects and clinical pipelines, and has worked with medical AI companies. His current work aims to bridge advanced AI methodologies with real-world problems and interdisciplinary education.
Experience
Assistant Professor, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, 2026.02 ~ present
Resarch Fellow, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, 2024.02 ~ 2026.02
Teaching
My office is at D-5077, and you are welcome to visit me during my office hours (Monday 15:00–17:00 (XEC D-5077), Thursday 13:00–15:00 (SIP CB144)), or send me an email to make an appointment.
AY25/26-S2: Co-teacher of DTS002, DTS004
Awards and honours
- Best Paper Award Finalist (ISBI 2022): Bilateral-vit for robust fovea localization.
- 2nd Place in MICCAI 2021 Contest, GAMMA Challenge (2nd in sub-task 1, glaucoma grading based on 3D multi-modality images; 1st in sub-task 3, optic disc and cup segmentation)
Related documents
Education/Academic qualification
PhD, Computer Science, University of Liverpool, UK
1 May 2020 → 21 Nov 2023
Award Date: 21 Nov 2023
Master, Artificial Intelligence, University of Southampton
1 Sept 2018 → 1 Sept 2019
Award Date: 1 Sept 2019
Master, Bioinformatics, The University of Edinburgh
1 Sept 2015 → 1 Sept 2016
Award Date: 1 Sept 2016
Research areas
- Medical Image Analysis
- Disentanglement Deep Learning
- Representation Learning
- Foundation Models
- Multi-modal Learning
- AI Agent
Person Types
- Staff
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):
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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A Novel Fourier Adjacency Transformer for Advanced EEG Emotion Recognition
Wang, J., Huang, Y., Song, S., Wang, B., Su, J. & Ding, J., 2026, Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2025 - 28th International Conference, Proceedings. Gee, J. C., Hong, J., Sudre, C. H., Golland, P., Alexander, D. C., Iglesias, J. E., Venkataraman, A. & Kim, J. H. (eds.). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, p. 13-23 11 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 15971 LNCS).Research output: Chapter in Book or Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Proceeding › peer-review
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Beyond Adapter Retrieval: Latent Geometry-Preserving Composition via Sparse Task Projection
Jin, P., Shu, P., Song, S., Kim, S., Xiao, Q., Chen, C., Liu, T., Li, X. & Li, Q., 2026, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Koenig, S., Jenkins, C. & Taylor, M. E. (eds.). 27 ed. Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, p. 22417-22425 9 p. (Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence; vol. 40, no. 27).Research output: Chapter in Book or Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Proceeding › peer-review
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Cascaded 3D Diffusion Models for Whole-Body 3D 18-F FDG PET/CT Synthesis from Demographics
Yoon, S., Song, S., Jin, P., Tivnan, M., Oh, Y., Kim, S., Wu, D., Li, X. & Li, Q., 2026, Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention , MICCAI 2025 - 28th International Conference, 2025, Proceedings. Gee, J. C., Hong, J., Sudre, C. H., Golland, P., Alexander, D. C., Iglesias, J. E., Venkataraman, A. & Kim, J. H. (eds.). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, p. 99-109 11 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 15962 LNCS).Research output: Chapter in Book or Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Proceeding › peer-review
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CryoFlow: Prediction of Frozen Region Growth in Kidney Cryoablation Using a 3D Flow-Matching
Yoon, S., Oh, Y., Tivnan, M., Song, S., Jin, P., Kim, S., Wu, D., Cho, H. J., Uppot, R. & Li, Q., 2026, Collaborative Intelligence and Autonomy in Image-Guided Surgery - 1st International Workshop, COLAS 2025, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2025, Proceedings. Dou, Q., Ban, Y., Jin, Y., Bano, S. & Unberath, M. (eds.). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, p. 64-73 10 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 16298 LNCS).Research output: Chapter in Book or Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Proceeding › peer-review
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MAST-Pro: Dynamic Mixture-of-Experts for Adaptive Segmentation of Pan-Tumors with Knowledge-Driven Prompts
Meng, R., Song, S., Jin, P., Teng, L., Wang, Y., Sun, Y., Chen, L., Oh, Y., Li, X., Li, Q., Guo, N. & Shen, D., 2026, Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2025 - 28th International Conference, 2025, Proceedings. Gee, J. C., Hong, J., Sudre, C. H., Golland, P., Park, J., Alexander, D. C., Iglesias, J. E., Venkataraman, A. & Kim, J. H. (eds.). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, p. 310-320 11 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 15975 LNCS).Research output: Chapter in Book or Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Proceeding › peer-review
1 Citation (Scopus)