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Basics
| Name | Tianhao Fu |
| Label | AI Scientist |
| [email protected] | |
| Url | https://atatc.me |
| Summary | 2T9 EngSci at University of Toronto; Previously at Vector Institute, UHN, and SJTU |
Work
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2026.07 - Present -
2026.05 - 2026.09 Research Assistant
Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Dr. Bin Sheng)
Working on systematic reviews.
- Working on "Who Does Medical AI Serve? Hidden Institutional Logics Behind Clinical AI"
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2026.04 - 2026.09 Student Researcher
University Health Network (Dr. Jun Ma)
Working on medical MLLMs.
- Delivered a mini course on multimodal large language models
- Applied C-RadioV4-style multi-teacher distillation on the 35TB SLC-PFM Pathology dataset from three encoders: H-optimus-1, UNI2-H, and Virchow2
- Utilized feature clustering with summary/patch token extraction to reduce the wall time from years to weeks on only 4 H100 GPUs
- Explored zero-shot feature upsampling (NAF) on pathology foundation models
- Managed the MICCAI FLARE 2026 challenge
- Fine-tuned and evaluated MedGemma 1 and 1.5 on various tasks across classification, multi-label classification, detection, instance detection, cell counting, regression and report generation, using Compute Canada (SLURM) clusters, as one of the baselines
- Made skills for agents to remotely access MFA-controlled SLURM clusters through shared ControlMaster SSH sessions
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2025.09 - 2026.07 Research Team Lead
University of Toronto Machine Intelligence Student Team
Researching on downstream tasks in medical image processing.
- [UNSURE@MICCAI2026] The SegWithU Project (SegWithU: Uncertainty as Perturbation Energy for Single-Forward-Pass Risk-Aware Medical Image Segmentation)
- The AIP Project (Automated Iterative Pseudo-labeling)
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2024.08 - 2025.09 Research Intern
Vector Institute (Dr. Bo Wang)
Competing in medical AI challenges presented by MICCAI.
- Ranked 4th in the PANORAMA Challenge
- Ranked 4th in the SegSTRONG-C Challenge
- Helped with Fast nnU-Net
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2022.06 - Present Team Lead
Project Neura
Gathering researchers and developers to bring their ideas into reality. Developed projects like LEADS and MIP Candy.
- Gathering researchers and developers to bring their ideas into reality
- Developed MIP Candy (A Candy for Medical Image Processing), a fast-prototyping engine for complete experiment pipelines for medical image processing
- Developed LEADS (Lightweight Embedded Assisted Driving System), an end-to-end instrumentation, control, and analysis system for electric race cars
- Built Erbium, an infrastructure cloud compute platform with Docker
Education
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2025.09 - Present Canada
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2022.09 - 2025.06 Canada
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2018.09 - 2022.06 China
Awards
- 2026
- 2025
Digital Citizenship Graduation Award
STEM Fellowship, Royal Bank of Canada, LinkedIn Learning, and Villanova College
In recognition of exemplary digital leadership and the promotion of Canadian values.
- 2025
Ontario Scholar
Ontario Ministry of Education
Certificates
| IELTS (8.0 / 9.0) | ||
| British Council, IDP IELTS, and Cambridge University Press & Assessment | 2024-08-19 |
Languages
| English | |
| Fluent |
| Mandarin | |
| First Language |
Projects
- 2023.11 - 2025.09
LEADS
Lightweight Embedded Assisted Driving System
- Developed an onboard instrumentation system that displays data like the wheel speed
- Developed a webpage dashboard that remotely monitors the vehicles’ status from the Pit crew
- Developed a multi-camera streaming and recording system
- Developed support for saving and replaying vehicle data
- Developed an efficient real-time data link using pure TCP/IP
- Developed a data analysis tool set that teaches the driver how to drive
- Customized the Ubuntu OS
- Developed support for multiple screens
- Developed GPS support
- 2025.08 - Present
MIP Candy
A Candy for Medical Image Processing
- Developed a framework that brings ready-to-use training, inference, and evaluation pipelines together with aesthetics, so users can focus on their experiments, not boilerplate
- Developed a visualization system that helps the user see the complex data
- Accelerated training with a preloading mechanism
- Accelerated sliding window custom CUDA kernels
- 2025.09 - 2026.02
The AIP Project
Automated Iterative Pseudo-labeling
- Proposed an innovative way to make pseudo-labeling more efficient and effective
- 2025.11 - 2025.12
CIV102 Bridge Project
Best Winner Solution for Automated Calculation and Optimization with Extensive Docs
- Top 1 in the cohort and 2nd in the class of 2025
- Developed a complex cross-section composition and solving system
- Developed a bridge solver
- Calculated the optimal cross-section dimensions by turning the design into a COP (Convex Optimization Problem)
- 2026.02 - 2026.04
SegWithU
Uncertainty as Perturbation Energy for Single-Forward-Pass Risk-Aware Medical Image Segmentation
- Proposed a novel single-forward-pass uncertainty estimation method that models uncertainty as perturbation energy
- Conducted experiments that show SOTA performance on ACDC, BraTS2024, and LiTS datasets