Jinlin Xiang

Jinlinx@uw.edu

Final-year Ph.D. candidate in Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Washington, advised by Prof. Eli Shlizerman. My research interests lie broadly in computer vision and machine learning, with a focus on developing knowledge transfer algorithms that enable lightweight AI models to achieve performance comparable to large models. I have over two years of industry experience in healthcare AI, with hands-on work involving audio, video, clinical trial text, multimodal data, and real-world applications of large language models. Expected graduation: March 2026.

Before my Ph.D. study, I received a Master of Science degree in Engineering from the University of Washington in 2021, thesis option, specializing in Data science and machine learning. In my master’s degree, I closely worked with Prof. Eli Shlizerman and Prof. Arka Majumdar about Optical Neural Networks. I received my Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Design Manufacturing and Automation (MDMA) at Chongqing University in 2018, which closely cooperated with National University of Singapore. I received Summer School certificate from Queen’s Univeristy of Belfast in 2016.

News

Jul 1, 2025	One paper published at Nature Communications.
Mar 20, 2025	🎉 Excited to join the Editorial and Reviewer Board of the Journal of Human Cognition
Mar 10, 2025	🎉I have passed my General Exam and am now a Ph.D. Candidate in UW Electrical & Computer Engineering
Jan 14, 2025	One paper accepted at Advanced Photonics Nexus.
Oct 28, 2024	One paper accepted at WACV.

Recent Publications

MICCAI-DECAF

Incremental Learning Meets Transfer Learning: Application to Multi-site Prostate MRI Segmentation

Chenyu You*, Jinlin Xiang*, Kun Su, and 5 more authors

In Distributed, Collaborative, and Federated Learning, and Affordable AI and Healthcare for Resource Diverse Global Health 2022

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Applied Optics

Knowledge distillation circumvents nonlinearity for optical convolutional neural networks

Jinlin Xiang, Shane Colburn, Arka Majumdar, and 1 more author

Applied Optics 2022

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ICCV

TKIL: Tangent Kernel Optimization for Class Balanced Incremental Learning

Jinlin Xiang, and Eli Shlizerman

In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision 2023

Poster
IEEE T-IV

Driver’s Hand-Foot Coordination and Global-Regional Brain Functional Connectivity under Fatigue: Via Graph Theory and Explainable Artificial Intelligence

Yingzhang Wu, Wenbo Li, Jie Zhang, and 4 more authors

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles 2023
CIBM

DN-ODE: Data-driven neural-ODE modeling for breast cancer tumor dynamics and progression-free survivals

Jinlin Xiang, Bozhao Qi, Marc Cerou, and 2 more authors

Computers in Biology and Medicine 2024

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Pharmacokinetic/Pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) modeling is crucial in the development of new drugs. However, traditional population-based PK/PD models encounter challenges when modeling for individual patients. We aim to explore the potential of constructing a pharmacodynamic model for individual breast cancer pharmacodynamics leveraging only limited data from early clinical trial phases. While previous studies on Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs) suggest promising results in clinical trial practices, they primarily focused on theoretical applications or independent PK/PD modeling. PD modeling from complex and irregular clinical trial data, especially when interacting with PK parameters, is still unclear. To achieve that, we introduce a Data-driven Neural Ordinary Differential Equation (DN-ODE) modeling for breast cancer tumor dynamics and progression-free survival data. To validate this approach, experiments are conducted with early-phase clinical trial data from the Amcenestrant (an oral treatment for breast cancer) dataset (AMEERA 1-2), aiming to predict pharmacodynamics in the later phase (AMEERA 3). DN-ODE model achieves RMSE scores of 8.78 and 0.21 in tumor size and progression-free survival, respectively, with R2 scores over 0.9 for each task. Compared to PK/PD methodologies, DN-ODE is able to predict robust individual tumor dynamics with only limited cycle data. We also introduce Principal Component Analysis visualizations for encoder results, demonstrating the DN-ODE’s capability to discern individual distributions and diverse tumor growth patterns. Therefore, DN-ODE facilitates comprehensive drug efficacy assessments, pinpoints potential responders, and aids in trial design.
APN

Compressed meta-optical encoder for image classification

Anna Wirth-Singh*, Jinlin* Xiang, Minho Choi*, and 5 more authors

Advanced Photonics Nexus 2025
WACV

Endoscopic Scoring and Localization in Unconstrained Clinical Trial Videos

Jinlin Xiang, Hillol Sarker, Bozhao Qi, and 8 more authors

In Proceedings of the Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Feb 2025
NCOMMS

Transferable polychromatic optical encoder for neural networks

Minho Choi*, Jinlin Xiang*, Anna Wirth-Singh, and 3 more authors

Nature Communications Jul 2025