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Academic

Biography

I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Central Florida, affiliated with the Institute of Artificial Intelligence (IAI). I work under Dr. Yu Tian and Dr. Mubarak Shah on problems in computer vision, with a focus on medical AI and models that connect medical images with clinical decisions.

I am interested in building systems that can understand medical images and videos, model how diseases change over time, and support safer decision-making in clinical scenarios.

Interests

  • Medical image understanding
  • Medical foundation models
  • Medical world models
  • Vision-language learning

Education

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2025 - Present
    University of Central Florida
  • M.Eng. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2023 - 2025
    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • B.Eng. in Electronic Science and Technology, 2020 - 2024
    Zhejiang University

News

  • Jun 2026CLARITY is accepted to ECCV 2026.
  • Jun 2026CoMET-Bench is released on arXiv for conditional multi-event temporal grounding in long-form video.
  • Jan 2026Medical SAM3 is released on arXiv for universal prompt-driven medical image segmentation.
  • Fall 2025I started my Ph.D. study in Computer Science at the University of Central Florida.

Education

University of Central Florida

Ph.D. Student in Computer Science

Fall 2025 - Present

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

M.Eng. in Electrical and Computer Engineering

2023 - 2025

Zhejiang University

B.Eng. in Electronic Science and Technology

2020 - 2024

Publications

CLARITY: Medical World Model for Guiding Treatment Decisions by Modeling Context-Aware Disease Trajectories in Latent Space
Tianxingjian Ding, Yuanhao Zou, Chen Chen, Mubarak Shah, Yu Tian
ECCV 2026
Medical SAM3: A Foundation Model for Universal Prompt-Driven Medical Image Segmentation
Chongcong Jiang*, Tianxingjian Ding*, Chuhan Song*, Jiachen Tu, Ziyang Yan, Yihua Shao, Zhenyi Wang, Yuzhang Shang, Tianyu Han
arXiv preprint, 2026
Conditional Multi-Event Temporal Grounding in Long-Form Video
Yuanhao Zou, Arthad Kulkarni, Lucas Toñanez, Lincoln Spencer, Guangyu Sun, Tianxingjian Ding, Andong Deng, Yi Li, Shuangjun Liu, Yuan Li, Dashan Gao, Ning Bi, Taotao Jing, Shuai Zhang, Chen Chen
arXiv preprint, 2026