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Basics

Name Tianhao Fu
Label AI Scientist
Email [email protected]
Url https://atatc.me
Summary 2T9 EngSci at University of Toronto; Previously at Vector Institute, UHN, and SJTU

Work

  • 2026.07 - Present
    Vice President Research
    University of Toronto Machine Intelligence Student Team
  • 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"
  • 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
  • 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)
  • 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
  • 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

  • 2025.09 - Present

    Canada

    BASc
    University of Toronto
    Engineering Science (PEY Co-op)
    • Machine Intelligence
  • 2022.09 - 2025.06

    Canada

    OSSD and AP
    St. Thomas of Villanova College
  • 2018.09 - 2022.06

    China

    Compulsory Education
    Shanghai Southwest Weiyu Middle School

Awards

  • 2026
    Dean's Honour List
    University of Toronto
    Awarded for outstanding academic performance.
  • 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