AI for Science

Curriculum Vitae

Email: yan.pang@siat.ac.cnWebsite: https://pangyan.me/Academic Profile: https://people.ucas.ac.cn/~pangyan
Email: yan.pang@siat.ac.cn

Profile

IEEE Senior Member and Associate Professor at the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Dr. Pang earned his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado in 2021. His research focuses on medical image analysis, embodied intelligent surgical robots, large-scale vision models, on-device models for AI chips, and blockchain security.

Between September 2022 and September 2025, he served as an associate professor at Guangzhou University. Prior to this, he worked as a machine learning scientist at Moffett AI in Los Altos, California, from April 2021 to May 2022. He also held instructor positions at the University of Colorado Denver and Metropolitan State University of Denver.

Dr. Yan Pang, IEEE Senior Member, is an Associate Professor at the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research focuses on the development of efficient and trustworthy artificial intelligence methods and systems for scientific inquiry and real-world applications, with particular emphasis on translating advanced models into practical, deployable technologies.

Academic & professional experience

2025.10 – Present
Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced TechnologyChinese Academy of SciencesAssociate Professor
2022.09 – 2025.09
Guangzhou UniversityAssociate Professor
2021.04 – 2022.05
Moffett AI, Los Altos, CAMachine Learning Scientist
2018.08 – 2021.05
Metropolitan State University of DenverInstructor, Department of Electrical Engineering Technology
2017.08 – 2021.05
University of Colorado DenverInstructor, Department of Electrical Engineering

Education

2017.08 – 2021.12
University of ColoradoDepartment of Electrical Engineering · Ph.D.
2015.08 – 2017.05
University of WyomingDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering · Ph.D. Student
2010.09 – 2013.05
Politecnico di TorinoDepartment of Electrical Engineering · Master
2005.09 – 2009.05
Henan Polytechnic UniversityDepartment of Automation · Bachelor

Journal Publications

  1. ZonoSeg: A Zonal-aware Prostate Segmentation Framework on 3D MRI ImagesYunhao Li, Aoying Wang, Qiong Wang, Ying Hu, Jing Qin, Yan Pang*2026 · IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
  2. HiLo: Spatial-Spectral Hybrid High-Low Frequency Activation for Heart and Brain Vessel SegmentationJiahui Huang, Xin Lei, Qiong Wang, Valentin Sinitsyn, Yun Zhu, Ying Hu, Hao Chen, Yan Pang*2026 · Expert Systems with Applications
  3. OCTMamba: A Lightweight Ear Segmentation Framework for 3D Portable Endoscopic OCT ScannerJiahui Huang, Junming Yan, Qiong Wang, Qingjie Meng, Jinpeng Li, Yan Pang*2026 · Expert Systems with Applications
  4. Highly cited paperUltraMamba: Mamba-based Multimodal Ultrasound Image Adaptive Fusion for Breast Lesion SegmentationJiahui Huang, Jiaxin Huang, Mingdu Zhang, Qiong Wang, Xiao-Qing Pei, Ying Hu, Hao Chen, Yan Pang*2026 · IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
  5. Highly cited paperEndoscopic Adaptive Transformer for Enhanced Polyp Segmentation in Endoscopic ImagingYan Pang, Yucheng Long, Zibin Chen, Ying Hu, Hao Chen, Qiong Wang2025 · IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
  6. SegTom: A 3D Volumetric Medical Image Segmentation Framework for Thoracoabdominal Multi-Organ Anatomical StructuresYan Pang, Yunhao Li, Jiaming Liang, Hao Chen, Ying Hu, Qiong Wang2025 · IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
  7. Highly cited paperSlim UNETRV2: 3D Image Segmentation for Resource-Limited Medical Portable DevicesYan Pang, Jiaming Liang, Junming Yan, Ying Hu, Hao Chen, Qiong Wang2025 · IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
  8. Graph-based Contract Sensing Framework for Smart Contract Vulnerability DetectionYan Pang, Xiangfu Liu, Teng Huang, Yile Hong, Jiahui Huang, Changyu Dong2025 · IEEE Transactions on Big Data
  9. SAMamba: Structure-Aware Mamba for Ethereum Fraud DetectionTeng Huang, Jiahui Huang, Changyu Dong, Sisi Duan, Yan Pang*2025 · IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
  10. Hierarchical Network with Local-Global Awareness for Ethereum Account De-anonymizationJiahui Huang, Teng Huang, Changyu Dong, Sisi Duan, Yan Pang*2025 · IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems
  11. Efficient Breast Lesion Segmentation from Ultrasound Videos Across Multiple Source-limited PlatformsYan Pang, Yunhao Li, Teng Huang, Jiaming Liang, Ziyu Ding, Hao Chen, Baoliang Zhao, Ying Hu, Zheng Zhang, Qiong Wang2025 · IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
  12. Online Self-distillation and Self-modeling for 3D Brain Tumor SegmentationYan Pang, Yunhao Li, Teng Huang, Jiaming Liang, Zhen Wang, Changyu Dong, Dongyang Kuang, Ying Hu, Hao Chen, Tim Lei, Qiong Wang2025 · IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
  13. AdaptFormer: An Adaptive Hierarchical Semantic Approach for Change Detection on Remote Sensing ImagesTeng Huang, Yile Hong, Yan Pang*, Jiaming Liang, Jie Hong, Lin Huang, Yuan Zhang, Yan Jia, Patrizia Savi2024 · IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement
  14. Highly cited paperSlim UNETR: Scale Hybrid Transformers to Efficient 3D Medical Image Segmentation Under Limited Computational ResourcesYan Pang, Jiaming Liang, Teng Huang, Hao Chen, Yunhao Li, Dan Li, Lin Huang, Qiong Wang2023 · IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
  15. Toward Learning Joint Inference Tasks for IASS-MTS Using Dual Attention Memory With Stochastic Generative ImputationZhen Wang, Yang Zhang, Yan Pang*, Nannan Wang, Mohamed Jaward Bah, Ke Li, Ji Zhang2023 · IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
  16. Smart Contract Watermarking Based on Code ObfuscationTeng Huang, Jiahui Huang, Yan Pang*, Hongyang Yan2023 · Information Sciences
  17. Sparse-Dyn: Sparse dynamic graph multirepresentation learning via event-based sparse temporal attention networkYan Pang, Ai Shan, Zhen Wang, Mengyu Wang, Jianwei Li, Ji Zhang, Teng Huang, Chao Liu2022 · International Journal of Intelligent Systems
  18. Graph Decipher: A transparent dual-attention graph neural network to understand the message-passing mechanism for the node classificationYan Pang, Teng Huang, Zhen Wang, Jianwei Li, Poorya Hosseini, Ji Zhang, Chao Liu, Shan Ai2022 · International Journal of Intelligent Systems
  19. Automated Large-Scale Extraction of Whistlers Using Mask-Scoring Regional Convolutional Neural NetworkVijay Harid, Chao Liu, Yan Pang, Akimun Jannat Alvina, Mark Golkowski, Poorya Hosseini, Morris Cohen2021 · Geophysical Research Letters
  20. Improved crop row detection with deep neural network for early-season maize stand count in UAV imageryYan Pang, Yeyin Shi, Shancheng Gao, Feng Jiang, Arun-Narenthiran Veeranampalayam-Sivakumar, Laura Thompson, Joe Luck, Chao Liu2020 · Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
  21. Automatic detection and quantification of hand movements toward development of an objective assessment of tremor and bradykinesia in Parkinson's diseaseYan Pang, Jake Christenson, Feng Jiang, Tim Lei, Remy Rhoades, Drew Kern, John A Thompson, Chao Liu2020 · Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Granted Patents

  1. 端侧模型的医学图像分析方法、装置、设备及存储介质，授权号: ZL202411705738.8
  2. 基于多模态图像的脊柱检测方法、装置、设备及存储介质，授权号: ZL202411752951.4
  3. 一种医学图像分割方法、装置及介质，授权号: ZL202410616680.3
  4. 用户身份识别方法、系统、设备及存储介质，授权号: ZL202410633064.9
  5. 防御模型被窃取攻击的方法、系统、设备及存储介质，授权号: ZL202410456738.2
  6. 自蒸馏与自学习的医学图像分割方法、装置及存储介质，授权号: ZL202410615709.6
  7. 一种文本生成粤剧视频的方法、装置、电子设备及介质，授权号: ZL202411065751.1
  8. 医学视频乳腺病变特征快速分割方法、装置、设备及介质，授权号: ZL202410485386.3
  9. 基于标记移除网络的高精度钢琴手势数据集构建方法，授权号: ZL202411072622.5
  10. 图像识别方法、装置、设备及存储介质，授权号: ZL202410623942.9
  11. 智能合约的漏洞检测方法、装置、设备及介质，授权号: ZL202410547779.2
  12. 内窥镜图像息肉分割方法、装置、计算机设备及存储介质，授权号: ZL202510675256.0

Teaching Experience

2022.09 – 2025.09
Guangzhou University
  • 181940016-1Computer Vision Processing
  • 180600065-1Natural Language Processing
  • 210600058-1Assembly Language Processing
2018.08 – 2021.05
Metropolitan State University of Denver
  • EET/CPE 2350Advanced Technical Programming
  • EET/CPE 3330Digital Circuits/Systems II
  • EET/CPE 4020Digital Circuits/Systems III
  • CPE 4600VLSI Circuits and Systems
2017.08 – 2021.05
University of Colorado Denver
  • ELEC 4561Hardware and Software Interface
  • ELEC 2531Logic Lab