Ruining Deng

Weill Cornell Medicine

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Tata Innovation Center

11 E Loop Rd

New York, NY, 10044

Dr. Ruining Deng is an Instructor of Artificial Intelligence in the Department of Radiology at Weill Cornell Medicine, working under the mentorship of Dr. Mert Sabuncu. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Vanderbilt University under the supervision of Dr. Yuankai Huo. His research focuses on developing clinically grounded artificial intelligence technologies for biomedical data analysis, with particular interests in digital pathology, medical imaging, and spatial molecular profiling. By integrating clinical knowledge with advances in machine learning, he aims to build AI systems that address real-world challenges in medicine. His work centers on cross-modal learning, AI-powered tools for clinical and translational research, democratizing computational pathology, and leveraging foundation models to construct comprehensive multimodal atlases of human disease. Please find his latest CV and full publications.

Besides being a research assistant at Vanderbilt University, Dr. Deng was a visiting scholar at the University of Notre Dame, as well as a member of the research staff at Guangdong Provincial Cardiovascular Institute. He has also served as a software engineer intern at Bridge Investment Group in Charlotte, NC. Recently, he completed a summer internship at Roche Diagnostics USA as an imaging scientist. More professional experience can be found in his latest resume.

🎓 Joining the lab. We are looking for graduate and undergraduate students and interns to join our team. If you’re passionate about artificial intelligence for healthcare applications, please send your CV and other materials to rud4004@med.cornell.edu.

🤝 Collaborations. We welcome broad collaborations in developing AI solutions for medical applications. Please contact rud4004@med.cornell.edu.

news

Feb212026 1 paper is accepted by CVPR 2026. Congratulations to Rachit!
Feb142026 2 papers are accepted by MIDL 2026 (1 oral, 1 spotlight presentation). Congratulations to Yuechen and Junchao!
Jan262026 Dr. Deng serves as Area Chair in MICCAI 2026.
Dec242025 Dr. Deng receives IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI) Distinguished Reviewer award at the Platinum Level (Top 200 Reviewers: 8 Platinum, 12 Gold, 28 Silver, 152 Bronze). Thanks IEEE TMI!
Nov062025 Dr. Deng receives the 2026 HIMA Doctoral Dissertation Award from the Histopathological Image Analysis (HIMA) workshop and the Association for Pathology Informatics (API). Thanks HIMA and API!
Oct302025 7 papers are accepted at SPIE Medical Imaging 2026. Congrats to everyone!
Aug172025 Dr. Deng is serving as the Program Chair at MIDL 2026.
Jun302025 We receive CTSC Pilot Award from Weill Cornell Medicine on Real-Time AI-Powered Microscopic Analysis. Thanks WCM!
Jun172025 1 paper is accepted by MICCAI 2025. Congratulations to Daniel!
May082025 Dr. Deng receives Conference Travel Award from MIDL 2025.
May082025 Dr. Deng receives Outstanding Graduate in Research from Vanderbilt.
Apr212025 Dr. Deng is invited to give a talk about “CASC-AI: Consensus-aware Self-corrective Learning for Noise Cell Segmentation” at University of Florida.
Mar272025 2 papers are accepted by MIDL 2025 as orals. Congratulations to Junchao and Ruining!
Feb272025 1 paper is accepted by CVPR 2025. Congratulations to Junchao!
Feb142025 Dr. Deng is serving as the Scientific Committee at CVPR 2025 Medical Computer Vision Workshop.
Feb142025 Dr. Deng is serving as the Area Chair at MICCAI 2025.
Nov082024 Dr. Deng starts a new position as an Instructor of Artificial Intelligence at Weill Cornell Medicine.
Nov082024 Mr. Deng passes the thesis defense for his Ph.D. degree at Vanderbilt University.
Nov032024 Mr. Deng serves as Technical Program Committee Reviewer in ISBI 2025.
Oct142024 Mr. Deng receives Gold-level Distinguished Reviewer Certificate from IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging.
Sep232024 Mr. Deng is attending “From Atlas to Practice Innovation Lab” hosted by HuBMAP and NIH.
Jun272024 Mr. Deng is serving as the Program Committee at MICCAI2024 MOVI.
Jun192024 1 paper is accepted by MICCAI 2024.
May082024 1 paper receives C.F. Chen Best Paper Runner-up award at Vanderbilt.
Apr152024 Mr. Deng receives Cornell NYC AIMI Fellowship from Weill Cornell Medicine. Thanks WCM Department of Radiology!
Apr012024 Mr. Deng is serving as the Executive Committee at MICCAI 2024 KPIs Challenge.
Mar082024 Mr. Deng is invited to give a talk about “Knowledge-infused Learning In Computational Pathology” at Weill Cornell Medicine.
Feb262024 1 paper is accepted by Medical Image Analysis.
Feb262024 1 paper is accepted by CVPR 2024.
Feb202024 2 papers are selected as Robert F. Wagner All-Conference Best Student Paper Award Finalist in SPIE Medical Imaging 2024.
Feb162024 Mr. Deng receives Graduate Student Travel Award from Vanderbilt.
Dec162023 Mr. Deng is serving as the Program Committee at Med-Neurips 2023.
Oct302023 3 papers are accepted by SPIE Medical Imaging 2024.
Oct022023 Mr. Deng is serving as the Program Committee at ICCV CVAMD 2023.
Aug182023 Mr. Deng receives Student Conference Travel Grant from SPIE Medical Imaging.
Aug182023 Mr. Deng is invited to give a talk about “Multimodal Learning & Cross-modality Attention-based Multimodal Fusion Patient Survival Prediction” at Roche.
Jul102023 Mr. Deng is serving as the Local Organizing Committee and Virtual Session Volunteer at MIDL 2023.
Jun232023 1 paper is accepted by MICCAI 2023.
May302023 1 paper is accepted by MIDL 2023 Short Paper Track.
May152023 Mr. Deng is becoming an imaging scientist intern at Roche.
Mar142023 1 paper is accepted by IEEE Transaction on Biomedical Engineering.
Feb162023 Mr. Deng receives Graduate Student Travel Award from Vanderbilt.
Dec022022 Mr. Deng is serving as the Program Committee at Med-Neurips 2022.
Nov142022 Mr. Deng is invited to give a talk about “Knowledge-infused Efficient Learning For Giga-pixel Virtual Microscopy Image” at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
Oct302022 2 papers are accepted by SPIE Medical Imaging 2023.
Aug042022 1 paper is accepted by MICCAI MMMI 2022.
Feb282022 1 paper is accepted by MIDL 2022.
Feb162022 Mr. Deng receives Graduate Student Travel Award from Vanderbilt.
Oct302021 1 paper is accepted by SPIE Medical Imaging 2022.
Jul222021 1 paper is accepted by DGM4MICCAI 2021.
Feb282021 1 paper is accepted by IEEE Transaction on Medical Imaging.
May082020 Mr. Deng is becoming a software engineer intern at Bridge Investment Group.
Feb012020 Mr. Deng is joining in Hrlb Lab.