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Aug 2026 – Aug 2027 (expected)

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Macau University of Science and Technology

School of Innovation Engineering

B.Sc. in Software Engineering

2021 – Aug 2025

Macau, China

Lead Researcher — Medical AI & Predictive Modeling

Designed and implemented a Dual-Tower Transformer (DT-Transformer) for in-hospital stroke mortality prediction using the multicenter eICU Collaborative Research Database. The architecture decouples categorical demographics from numerical vitals into separate encoding towers, achieving an AUPRC of 0.6171 (± 0.0058 over five seeds) — a 14.4% relative improvement over the strongest neural baseline. An Adaptive Runtime Safeguard clamps physiological outliers online within the data loader, ensuring stable, crash-free inference.

  • Outperformed the strongest neural baseline, NN (AUPRC 0.5394), and a standard Transformer (0.5279); tree ensembles still lead (XGBoost 0.6467, Random Forest 0.6236)
  • Implemented attention map visualization for clinical interpretability of feature importance
  • Paper accepted and presented on May 24, 2026 at the 2026 6th International Conference on Computer Communication and Artificial Intelligence (CCAI)
Young Ambassador and Researcher

Asia AI Education and Future Technology Association (AAE) — Remote / Hong Kong, China

  • Collaborated closely with Head Advisor Dr. Kwong-Cheong Wong on deep learning for stroke mortality prediction using the eICU database
  • Represented the association at CCAI 2026 in Nanjing, where the resulting paper received the Best Industrial Paper Award and the Best Presentation Award
Machine Learning Engineering Intern

China Southern Power Grid — Guangzhou

  • Processed 60 GB of multi-province power equipment inspection data to identify equipment fault frequencies and optimize inspection robot algorithms
  • Contributed to the development of closing and splitting functions for power inspection robots to support real-world operational accuracy
Reviewer and Program Committee Member

Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI)

  • Reviewed four submissions and was subsequently invited to serve as a Program Committee member
DT-Transformer — Clinical AI Training Pipeline
  • Engineered an end-to-end ML pipeline from raw eICU CSV ingestion (200,859 ICU stays) to model serialization, with reproducible preprocessing via custom DataLoader classes
  • Modular architecture separating data, model, training, and evaluation layers for maintainability
  • Multi-seed evaluation harness (5 seeds on a fixed patient-stratified split) with automated metric logging (AUROC, AUPRC, F1) across all baselines
  • Released open-source at Dual-Tower-Transformer-eICU-Stroke and Data-Preprocessing-for-eICU
Power Load Forecasting — Final Year Project

Multi-timescale LSTM for daily, weekly and quarterly power load forecasting, with an interactive decision-support system: 1.42% MAPE on daily predictions and 82% higher quarterly accuracy than ARIMA.

AI-Integrated Web Platform — Course Project

Full-stack web platform with a Vue.js front end, a Spring Boot REST back end and a Python microservice serving a trained scikit-learn classifier, with JWT role-based access control and Docker Compose deployment.

Personal Academic Website — zr-jia.github.io
  • Custom responsive static site from scratch — zero third-party UI frameworks
  • Component-based layout via Jekyll includes, Liquid templating, and CSS custom properties (design tokens)
  • Automated deployment via GitHub Pages CI/CD; SEO metadata, structured data, sitemap, robots.txt
  • Clinical Prediction

    Deep learning on electronic health records for ICU risk stratification and mortality prediction, building on work in stroke mortality prediction on the multicenter eICU database (CCAI 2026; PRICAI 2026, accepted).

  • Trustworthy Clinical AI

    Inference-time safeguards against physiological outliers, and attention-based interpretability that a clinician can check.

  • Reproducible Pipelines

    Multicenter clinical databases, leakage-free cohort construction, and open-source code.

Mandarin Native
English Upper-Intermediate
Google Scholar Zheng Rong JIA
IEEE Xplore Zhengrong Jia
Scopus 60820100100
Web of Science RFS-2719-2026
ResearchGate Zhengrong Jia
GitHub ZR-JIA
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