Zheng Rong JIA
Medical AI & Predictive Modeling · Independent Researcher
B.Sc. Software Engineering
Macau University of Science and Technology
Graduated Aug 2025
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Deep Learning for Stroke Mortality Prediction in eICU: A Dual-Tower Transformer Framework
CCAI 2026 (EI-indexed)
- 2026 Finalizing the open-source release of the DT-Transformer framework for reproducible clinical AI research.
- 2026 Paper Accepted at CCAI 2026: "Deep Learning for Stroke Mortality Prediction in eICU: A Dual-Tower Transformer Framework" (Upcoming: May 2026).
- 2025 Earned B.Sc. in Software Engineering from Macau University of Science and Technology.
Transformer-based temporal modeling on longitudinal EHR data; early warning systems for ICU critical events with missing-data-aware architectures, building on prior work in stroke risk prediction (CCAI 2024).
Vision Transformer and hybrid CNN-ViT architectures for brain MRI segmentation; semi-supervised learning strategies to address annotation scarcity in radiology AI, with focus on multi-class lesion delineation.
Faithfulness evaluation of attention-based saliency methods for deep radiology models; human-in-the-loop clinical validation frameworks to bridge the gap between model accuracy and clinician trust in high-stakes diagnosis.
Lead Researcher — Medical AI
Aug 2025 – PresentIndependent · Clinical AI · Stroke Mortality Prediction · eICU
- Designed a Dual-Tower Transformer achieving AUPRC of 0.6171 — a 14.4% improvement over neural baselines — on the multicenter eICU database (200k+ records)
- Integrated an Adaptive Runtime Safeguard for out-of-distribution detection at inference time, ensuring clinical deployment safety
- Paper accepted at CCAI 2026 (EI-indexed)
Time-Series Forecasting — Undergraduate Thesis
2023 – 2024Python · PyTorch · LSTM · Pandas · NumPy
Built an LSTM-based sequential forecasting model with a full preprocessing pipeline (normalization, sliding-window construction, data-leakage-free splits), achieving 1.42% MAPE on the held-out test set.
MLE Intern — China Southern Power Grid AI
Jul – Aug 2024 · GuangzhouFine-tuned YOLOv8 for inspection robots; built and maintained a 60 GB multi-province industrial image dataset. Evaluation score: 100/100.