Austin T. Wang

PhD Candidate at Simon Fraser University

Simon Fraser University

Biography

Austin Wang is a Ph.D. student at Simon Fraser University. His research interests include computer vision and natural language, including scene understanding and generation, and applications of AI to health.

Interests

Computer Vision
Natural Language Processing
Scene Understanding and Generation
Health
Christianity

Education

PhD Candidate in Computer Science, 2023-present
Simon Fraser University
MEng in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2020
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
BS in Computer Science and Engineering, 2020
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Skills

Technical

Python

C++

SQL

Pytorch

Version Control (Git)

AWS

Agile

Hobbies

Volleyball

FIRST Robotics

Cooking

Music

Biblical Studies

Experience

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Iterative Health

May 2019 – August 2023 Cambridge, Massachusetts

Developed image- and video-based computer vision models for endoscopy data toward detection of colorectal cancer and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).

Projects

OPDMulti Demo

Building a demo for animating openable part detection on RGB images

BIOSCAN

using ML to tackle problems of biodiversity

Recent Publications

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Pablo Millan Arias, Niousha Sadjadi, Monireh Safari, ZeMing Gong, Austin T. Wang, Scott C. Lowe, Joakim Bruslund Haurum, Iuliia Zarubiieva, Dirk Steinke, Lila Kari, Angel X. Chang, Graham W. Taylor (2023). BarcodeBERT: Transformers for Biodiversity Analysis. Proceedings of the NeurIPS Workshop on Self-Supervised Learning: Theory and Practice.

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Austin Wang (2020). Real-time computer-aided polyp detection and localization for clinical applications.

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