Dr. Yan Pang
Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Email: yan.pang@siat.ac.cn
Address: No. 1068, Xueyuan Avenue, Nanshan District, Shenzhen
Postal Code: 518055
Research Areas
Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Smart Healthcare, LLM, Blockchain, Embodied Intelligent Surgical Robots, AI Chips, On-Device Large Models, Parallel Computing, etc.
Education
- 2017–08 – 2021–12 University of Colorado, USA — Ph.D.
- 2010–09 – 2013–05 Politecnico di Torino, Italy — Master
- 2005–09 – 2009–05 Henan Polytechnic University, China — Bachelor
Experience
Work Experience
- 2025–10 – Present Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences — Associate Research Professor
- 2022–09 – 2025–09 Guangzhou University — Associate Professor
- 2021–05 – 2022–05 Moffett AI (USA) — Senior Engineer
Teaching Experience
- 2018–08 – 2021–05 University of Colorado Denver, USA — Lecturer
- 2017–08 – 2021–05 Metropolitan State University of Denver, USA — Lecturer
Publications
Papers
Huang J., Lei X., Wang Q., Sinitsyn V., Zhu Y., Hu Y., Chen H., Pang Y.* HiLo: Spatial-Spectral Hybrid High-Low Frequency Activation for Heart and Brain Vessel Segmentation, in Expert Systems With Applications, 2026
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.133453
Huang J., Yan. J., Wang Q., Meng Q., Li J., Pang Y.* OCTMamba: A Lightweight Ear Segmentation Framework for 3D Portable Endoscopic OCT Scanner, in Expert Systems with Applications, vol. 315, no. 5, pp. 131678, 2026
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.131678
Huang J., Huang J., Zhang M., Wang Q., Pei X., Hu Y., Chen H., Pang Y.* UltraMamba: Mamba-based Multimodal Ultrasound Image Adaptive Fusion for Breast Lesion Segmentation, in IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 45, no. 5, pp.2360-2372, 2026
https://doi.org/10.1109/TMI.2026.3653779
Pang Y., Long Y., Chen Z., Hu Y. Chen H., Wang Q. Endoscopic Adaptive Transformer for Enhanced Polyp Segmentation in Endoscopic Imaging, in IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 45, no. 3, pp. 987-999, 2026
https://doi.org/10.1109/TMI.2025.3615677
Pang Y., Li Y., Liang J., Chen H., Hu Y., Wang Q. SegTom: A 3D Volumetric Medical Image Segmentation Framework for Thoracoabdominal Multi-Organ Anatomical Structures, in IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 551-563, 2026
https://doi.org/10.1109/JBHI.2025.3606266
Pang Y., Liang J., Yan J., Hu Y., Chen H., Wang, Q. Slim UNETRV2: 3D Image Segmentation for Resource-Limited Medical Portable Devices, in IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 542-553, 2026
https://doi.org/10.1109/TMI.2025.3602145
Pang Y., Liu X., Huang T., Hong Y., Huang J., Duan S., Dong C. Graph-based Contract Sensing Framework for Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection, in IEEE Transactions on Big Data, vol. 11, no. 6, pp. 3356-3368, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1109/TBDATA.2025.3594303
Huang T., Huang J., Dong C., Duan S., Pang Y.* SAMamba: Structure-Aware Mamba for Ethereum Fraud Detection, in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol. 20, pp. 7410-7423, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1109/TIFS.2025.3589015
Huang J., Huang T., Dong C., Duan S., Pang Y.* Hierarchical Network with Local-Global Awareness for Ethereum Account De-anonymization, in IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems, 2025, vol. 55, no. 9, pp. 5839-5852, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1109/TSMC.2025.3571795
Pang Y., Li Y., Huang T., Liang J., Ding Z., Chen H., Zhao B., Hu Y., Zhang Z., Wang Q. Efficient Breast Lesion Segmentation from Ultrasound Videos Across Multiple Source-limited Platforms, in IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, vol. 29, no. 12, pp. 8890-8903, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1109/JBHI.2025.3543435
Pang Y., Li Y., Huang T., Liang J., Wang Z., Dong C., Kuang D., Hu Y., Chen H., Lei T., Wang Q. Online Self-distillation and Self-modeling for 3D Brain Tumor, in IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, vol. 29, no. 12, pp. 8965-8975, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1109/JBHI.2025.3530715
Pang Y., Liang J., Huang T., Chen H., Li Y., Li D., Huang L., Wang, Q. Slim UNETR: Scale Hybrid Transformers to Efficient 3D Medical Image Segmentation Under Limited Computational Resources, in IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 43, no. 3, pp. 994-1005, 2024
https://doi.org/10.1109/TMI.2023.3326188
Wang Z., Zhang Y., Pang Y.*, Wang N., Bah M. J., Li K., Zhang J. Toward Learning Joint Inference Tasks for IASS-MTS Using Dual Attention Memory with Stochastic Generative Imputation. in IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 35(12), 17504-7518, 2024
https://doi.org/10.1109/TNNLS.2023.3305542
Huang T., Hong Y., Pang Y.*, Liang J., Hong J., Huang L., Zhang Y., Jia Y., Savi P. AdaptFormer: An adaptive hierarchical semantic approach for change detection on remote sensing images. in IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 73, pp. 1-12, 2024
https://doi.org/10.1109/TIM.2024.3387494
Huang T., Huang J., Pang Y.*, Hong Y. Smart contract watermarking based on code obfuscation. in Information Sciences, vol. 628, pp. 439-448, 2023
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2023.01.126
Pang Y., Shan A., Wang Z., Wang M., Li J., Zhang J., Huang T., Liu, C. Sparse‐Dyn: Sparse dynamic graph multi-representation learning via event‐based sparse temporal attention network. in International Journal of Intelligent Systems, vol 37, no. 11, pp. 8770-8789, 2022
https://doi.org/10.1002/int.22967
Pang Y., Huang T., Wang Z., Li J., Hosseini P., Zhang J., Liu C., Ai S. Graph Decipher: A transparent dual‐attention graph neural network to understand the message‐passing mechanism for the node classification. in International Journal of Intelligent Systems, vol. 37, no. 11, pp 8747-8769, 2022
https://doi.org/10.1002/int.22966
Harid V., Liu C., Pang Y., Alvina A. J., Golkowski M., Hosseini P., Cohen M. Automated large‐scale extraction of whistlers using mask‐scoring regional convolutional neural network. in Geophysical Research Letters,
vol. 48, no. 15, e2021GL093819, 2021
https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL093819
Pang Y., Shi Y., Gao S., Jiang F., Sivakumar A. N., Thompson L., Luck J., Liu, C. Improved crop row detection with deep neural network for early-season maize stand count in UAV imagery. in Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, vol. 178, pp. 105766, 2020
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2020.105766
Pang Y., Christenson J., Jiang F., Lei T., Rhoades R., Kern D., Thompson J. A., & Liu, C. Automatic detection and quantification of hand movements toward development of an objective assessment of tremor and bradykinesia in Parkinson's disease. in Journal of Neuroscience Methods, vol. 333, pp. 108576, 2020
Research Interests
Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Smart Healthcare, Large-scale Models, Blockchain, Embodied Intelligent Surgical Robots, AI Chips, On-Device Models, Parallel Computing