Generative Medical AI · Surgical Intelligence
I am Tong (Davis) Chen, a medical AI researcher who recently defended my Ph.D. thesis at The University of Sydney, supervised by Associate Prof. Luping Zhou. My work spans generative models, multimodal large language models, and vision-language-action systems, with a focus on clinically meaningful medical and surgical intelligence.
I have been fortunate to work with Prof. Hongliang Ren (CUHK), Paul S. Scotti (Sophont), and Xiaoyu Yue (XPENG Robotics).
Generative Medical Vision
Diffusion and autoregressive models for restoration, reconstruction, and controllable generation.
Surgical Intelligence
Open-world perception, multimodal understanding, and spatially grounded assistance for surgery.
VLA & Foundation Models
Vision-language-action learning and medical foundation models for interactive clinical systems.
News
Successfully defended my Ph.D. thesis at The University of Sydney.
One paper was accepted by ECCV 2026.
Selected as a DAAD AINeT Fellow in the AI in Neuroscience track.
One paper was accepted by CVPR 2026.
Two papers were accepted by AAAI 2026.
Received the NeurIPS 2025 Top Reviewer Award.
SurgSora, WiD-PET, and Endo-4DGX were accepted by MICCAI 2025.
LighTDiff received the MICCAI 2024 Best Paper Runner-Up Award.
MindEye2 was accepted by ICML 2024.
LLCaps was selected for an oral presentation at MICCAI 2023.
Publications
† denotes equal contribution.
EndoIR: Degradation-Agnostic All-in-One Endoscopic Image Restoration via Noise-Aware Routing Diffusion
SurgSora: Object-Aware Diffusion Model for Controllable Surgical Video Generation
WiD-PET: PET Image Reconstruction from Low-Dose Data Using a Wavelet-Informed Diffusion Model with Fast Inference
Paper and code coming soon.
LighTDiff: Surgical Endoscopic Image Low-Light Enhancement with T-Diffusion
EndoUIC: Promptable Diffusion Transformer for Unified Illumination Correction in Capsule Endoscopy
MindEye2: Shared-Subject Models Enable fMRI-To-Image With 1 Hour of Data
LLCaps: Learning to Illuminate Low-Light Capsule Endoscopy with Curved Wavelet Attention and Reverse Diffusion
Experience
Research Intern · Alibaba DAMO Academy
Alibaba Group, Hangzhou, China.
Researcher · MedARC Neuroimaging
Worked with Paul S. Scotti on generative neural decoding.
External Collaborator · The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Department of Electronic Engineering, supervised by Prof. Hongliang Ren.
Research Intern · Tsinghua University
MengShi Automatic Driving Lab, supervised by Associate Prof. Xinyu Zhang.
Research Intern · Beijing Institute of Technology
UV Lab of the Ministry of Education, supervised by Associate Prof. Yi Tang.
Honors & Awards
Education & Teaching
Education
- Ph.D. · Electrical and Information Engineering
- The University of Sydney · 2023–2026
- B.S. · Optoelectronic Engineering
- Beijing Institute of Technology · 2018–2022
Teaching
- ELEC5622 · Signals, Software and Health
- Teaching Assistant · 2023–2025
Mentoring
| Name | Role | Period | Next step |
|---|---|---|---|
| Xinyu Ma | Intern | 2024–2025 | Ph.D. student · MPU |
| Yuhan Liu | Intern | 2024–2025 | — |
| Wenyang Wang | Intern | 2024–2025 | Researcher · Shanghai AI Lab |
| Junyi Wang | Intern | 2024–2025 | — |
| Shuya Yang | Intern | 2024–2025 | Ph.D. student · HKU |
| Mengchen Wang | Intern | 2025–2026 | Ph.D. student · MPU |
| Shuhuai Wang | Intern | 2026–Present | — |