People

Meet the SMILE team.

Students and collaborators in the lab work on machine learning, computer vision, medical imaging, and computational biology.

Portrait of Professor Junzhou Huang

Lead faculty

Junzhou Huang

Jenkins Garrett Professor in Computer Science and Engineering at The University of Texas at Arlington. His research spans machine learning, computer vision, medical image analysis, and bioinformatics.

Machine learningComputer visionMedical image analysisBioinformatics

Current members

Ph.D. researchers

10 members
YM

Yuwei Miao

Ph.D. Student · Since 2022

Machine learningBioinformatics
QZ

Qifeng Zhou

Ph.D. Student · Since 2022

Computational pathologyMultimodal learning
TM

Thao M. Dang

Ph.D. Student · Since 2023

Medical imagingRepresentation learning
JY

Jingquan Yan

Ph.D. Student · Since 2024

Machine learningAI for biology
HL

Haiqing Li

Ph.D. Student · Since 2024

Multimodal learningMedical AI
YW

Yinhao Wu

Ph.D. Student · Since 2025

Medical image analysisComputer vision
ZZ

Zheng Zheng

Ph.D. Student · Since 2025

Multimodal learningSurvival prediction
XH

Xiao Hu

Ph.D. Student · Since 2025

CL

Chuanqi Lao

Ph.D. Student · Since 2026

TT

Thanh Tran

Ph.D. Student · Since 2026

Alumni

Where SMILE researchers go next.

NameYearsNext chapter
Weizhi An2019–2026Google
Saiyang Na2021–2026Sanford Lab
Wenliang Zhong2021–2026Amazon
Feng Jiang2022–2026Amazon
Mohammad Minhazul Haq2016–2023Caris Life Sciences
Hehuan Ma2018–2023PostDoc
Chaochao Yan2017–2022Google
Ashwin Raju2017–2022Covera Health
Jinyu Yang2018–2022Amazon
Yuzhi Guo2018–2022Kent State University
Ruoyu Li2014–2020Facebook
Sheng Wang2015–2020Google
Xinliang Zhu2015–2020Amazon
Jiawen Yao2014–2019PAII
Zheng Xu2014–2018Google
Yeqing Li2012–2016Google