🐑 About Me

I was a research assistant at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. I received the Ph.D. from Sichuan University (四川大学) in 2025, advised by Yi Zhang(张意). From 2024 to 2025, I was a research intern at A*STAR, advised by Joey Tianyi Zhou. I have published over 20 first-authored papers in top-tier journals and conferences, including IJCV, IEEE T-IFS, IEEE T-NNLS, IEEE T-SMCS, IEEE T-AI, IEEE J-BHI, PR, CVPR, AAAI, and others. One paper is selected as ESI highly cited paper. Additionally, I have served as a reviewer for several prestigious journals and conferences, such as IEEE T-PAMI, IEEE T-IP, IEEE T-IFS, IEEE T-DSC, IEEE T-MI, IEEE T-MM, IEEE T-NNLS, CVPR, ICCV, and MICCAI, among others.

If you have any advice or are interested in exploring academic collaborations, please feel free to contact me at cziyuanyang@gmail.com. I welcome your insights and look forward to potential collaborations.

My research interests encompass the following areas:

• AI Security
• AI in Healthcare
• Biometrics
• Federated Learning
• AI Efficiency

🔥 News

• 2025.01: 🎉 One paper is accepted by PMB! Congrats to Lang and Yingyu!
• 2025.01: 🎉 One paper is accepted by ICLR! Congrats to Zhuxin!
• 2025.01: 🎉 One paper is accepted by IEEE TBME! Congrats to Yingyu!
• 2025.12: 🎉 A survey is accepted by IEEE TSMCS! Congrats to Chengrui!
• 2025.11: 🎉 One paper is accepted by AAAI!
• 2025.11: 🎉 One paper is accepted by IEEE JSTSP! Congrats to Maosong!
• 2025.10: 🎉 One paper is accepted by BIBM! Congrats to Yingyu!
• 2025.09: 🎉 One paper is accepted by IEEE T-CSVT! Congrats to Lixin!
• 2025.09: 🎉 One paper is accepted by IEEE SPL!
• 2025.09: 🎉 One paper is accepted by T-IFS! Congrats to Yunlong!
• 2025.08: 🎉 One paper is accepted by PR!
• 2025.05: 🎉 One paper is accepted by IEEE IOT-J! Congrats to Chengrui!
• 2025.04: 🎉 One paper is accepted by T-ETCI! Congrats to Hui!
• 2025.03: 🎉 One paper is accepted by T-AI!
• 2025.02: 🎉 One paper is accepted by Pattern Recognition! Congrats to Congcong!

💻 Selected Publications

#: Co-First Author *: Corresponding Author

Please find my full paper list at my Google Scholar.

☁️ Federated Learning

• CVPR Patient-Level Anatomy Meets Scanning-Level Physics: Personalized Federated Low-Dose CT Denoising Empowered by Large Language Model
  Ziyuan Yang, Yingyu Chen, Zhiwen Wang, et al. IEEE / CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference, 2025.|
• PR Enhancing Federated Learning through Exploring Filter-Aware Relationships and Personalizing Local Structures
  Ziyuan Yang, Zerui Shao, Huijie Huangfu, et al. Pattern Recognition, 2025.
• TNNLS Hypernetwork-based Physics-Driven Personalized Federated Learning for CT Imaging
  🔥ESI Highly Cited Paper
  Ziyuan Yang*, Wenjun Xia, Yingyu Chen, et al. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2025.|
• JBHI Dynamic Corrected Split Federated Learning with Homomorphic Encryption for U-shaped Medical Image Networks
  Ziyuan Yang, Yingyu Chen, Huijie Huangfu, et al. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 2023.|

🔒 Security and Privacy Analysis

• ICLR Zero-Sacrifice Persistent-Robustness Adversarial Defense for Pre-Trained Encoders
  Zhuxin Lei, Ziyuan Yang^*, Yi Zhang^*. International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026.
• AAAI Poisoned Distillation: Injecting Backdoors into Distilled Datasets Without Raw Data Access
  Ziyuan Yang, Ming Yan, Yi Zhang, Joey Tianyi Zhou. AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2026. |
• TAI A Novel Privacy-Enhancing Framework for Low-Dose CT Denoising
  Ziyuan Yang, Huijie Huangfu, Maosong Ran, et al. IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, 2025. |
• TIFS A Dual-Level Cancelable Framework for Palmprint Verification and Hack-Proof Data Storage
  Ziyuan Yang, Ming Kang, Andrew Beng Jin Teoh, et al. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2024.|
• MICCAI Inject Backdoor in Measured Data to Jeopardize Full-Stack Medical Image Analysis System
  Ziyuan Yang, Yingyu Chen, Mengyu Sun, et al. International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, 2024.

👶🏻 Biometrics

• TSMCS Deep Learning in Palmprint Recognition: A Comprehensive Survey
  Chengrui Gao, Ziyuan Yang^*, Wei Jia, et al. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems, 2026.
• IJCV Physics-Driven Spectrum-Consistent Federated Learning for Palmprint Verification
  Ziyuan Yang, Andrew Beng Jin Teoh, Bob Zhang, et al. International Jouranl of Computer Vision, 2024.|
• TIFS Comprehensive Competition Mechanism in Palmprint Recognition
  Ziyuan Yang, Huijie Huangfu, Lu Leng, et al. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2023. |
• TIM CO3Net: Coordinate-Aware Contrastive Competitive Neural Network for Palmprint Recognition
  Ziyuan Yang, Wenjun Xia, Yifan Qiao, et al. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 2023. |
• AIRE Multi-order Texture Features for Palmprint Recognition
  Ziyuan Yang, Lu Leng, Bob Zhang, et al. Artificial Intelligence Review, 2023. |

🏥 AI in Healthcare

• TCSVT Generalizable MRI Motion Correction via Compressed Sensing Equivariant Imaging Prior
  Zhiwen Wang, Maosong Ran, Ziyuan Yang, et al. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 2024. |
• TNNLS SOUL-Net: A Sparse and Low-Rank Unrolling Network for Spectral CT Image Reconstruction
  Xiang Chen, Wenjun Xia, Ziyuan Yang, et al. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2023.
• TRPMS RegFormer: A Local-Nonlocal Regularization-Based Model for Sparse-View CT Reconstruction
  Wenjun Xia, Ziyuan Yang, Zexin Lu, et al. IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences, 2023. |

🎖 Honors and Awards

• IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging Distinguished Reviewer
• Scholarship by China Scholarship Council
• 2023, 2024 National Scholarship
• Provincial Outstanding PhD Graduates
• Sichuan Provincial Outstanding Doctoral Thesis on Cyberspace Security
• Outstanding Provincial Master’s Thesis
• Outstanding PhD Graduates of Sichuan University
• 2023, 2024 Outstanding Graduate Student
• Rank #2 in IJCB 2023 Competition (SynFacePAD-2023)
• 2023-2025 First-Class Academic Scholarship
• 2020, 2021 Provincial Scholarship
• 2020-2021 Special-Class Academic Scholarship

📖 Education

• 2021.09 - 2025.06, Ph.D., College of Computer Science, Sichuan Univeristy, Chengdu.
• 2018.09 - 2021.06, M.E., School of Information Engineering, Nanchang University, Nanchang.
• 2014.09 - 2018.06, B.E., School of Software, Nanchang Hangkong University, Nanchang.

📂 Experience

• 2025.09 - 2025.12, Research Assistant, Department of Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Hong Kong.
• 2024.05 - 2025.03, Research Intern, Centre for Frontier AI Research (CFAR), A*STAR, Singapore.

💻 Funding

• LLM-Guided Low-Dose CT Reconstruction, Tianfu Jiangxi Lab, $500,000 (RMB), PI.

💬 Talks

• 2025.07 “LLM-Guided Physics-Driven Low-Dose CT Reconstruction” – Presented at MICS 2025, Cixi, Zhejiang.
• 2025.06 “Patient-Level Anatomy-Driven and Scanning-Level Physics-Driven Low-Dose CT Reconstruction” – Presented at BME 2025, Suzhou, Jiangsu.
• 2024.11 “Privacy and Security in Medical Imaging” – Presented at Nanyang Technological University, hosted by Prof. Yeo’s research group.

💼 Service

Editor

Guest Editor for CMC - Computers, Materials & Continua

Journal Reviewer

IEEE T-PAMI, IEEE T-IP, IEEE T-IFS, IEEE T-DSC, IEEE T-MI, IEEE T-MM, IEEE T-NNLS, IEEE T-MC, IEEE T-ASL, IEEE T-CSVT, IEEE T-SMCS, IEEE T-II, IEEE T-BC, IEEE COMST, IEEE TCDS, IEEE T-Mech, IEE SPL, IEEE IoTJ, IEEE Sens-J, IEEE J-BHI, AIRE, AIME, IET CV / SP / Biom, etc.

Conference Reviewer

CVPR, ICCV, ACM MM, ICME, MICCAI, EMNLP, IJCNN, ISBI, WCCI, etc.

Acknowledgements

I would thank all my collaborators and advisors, they helped me a lot.