Weichen Huang

weichen-huang.github.io

weichen.huang.2020@gmail.com

weichen-huang

weichen-huang

weichen-huang

Blackrock

Dublin city, Dublin Ireland

+353-85-1191-391

Interests

competitive programming , artificial intelligence , computer science , computational neuroscience

Skills

OOP Languages: C++, Python, Java, C

Hackerrank: https://www.hackerrank.com/weichenhuang06

Codeforces: https://codeforces.com/profile/WHCPP

Education

St Andrew's College

High school, Dublin

  • Junior Cycle
  • Transition Year
  • DELF B1 - French language
  • International Baccalaureate

2019 - Present

MIT OpenCourseWare

Online Course, Cambridge, Massachusetts

  • Introduction to Algorithms 6.006
  • Mathematics for Computer Science 6.042J
  • Single Variable Calculus 18.01
  • Mathematics of Machine Learning 18.657
  • Differential Equations 18.03
  • Multivariable Calculus 18.02
  • Design and Analysis of Algorithms 6046J

2021 - 2022

Stanford University

Online Course, Stanford, California

  • Mathematical Thinking
  • Logical notation and problem solving

2021 - 2022

Art of Problem Solving

High School Math Contests, https://virtual.aopsacademy.org/

  • Algebra (Algebraic Manipulations, polynomials, sequences and series)
  • Number theory (modular arithmetic, divisbility theory)
  • Combinatorics (fundamental principle of counting, combinations and permutations, probability)
  • Advanced Geometry (triangle theorems, circle theorems, polygons, 3D geometry)
  • Practice AMC contests

2022 - 2022

Work

RSI Researcher, MIT

dicarlolab.mit.edu/

Continued neuromorphic computing research following RSI summer school, with Yudi Xie and Prof. James J. DiCarlo, on convergent neural representations.

2024 - Present

Research Intern, University College Dublin

www.ucd-ml-mi.com/

Research internship at UCD Machine Learning for Medical Imaging Lab under Dr. Kathleen Curran

  • RSNA 2023 Collaborative Paper with Z. Chang, K. Curran: Improved Multimodal Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease through MRI and PET Image Fusion
  • T-junction detection
  • IMVIP 2023 Collaborative Paper with K. Curran: Spurious Correlation Mitigation in CXR Images via Reinforcement learning and Self-Supervision

2023 - Present

Activities

Rickoid, RSI-MIT 2024

www.cee.org/programs/research-science-institute

Worked on a research project in neuromorphic computing at MIT BCS DiCarlo Lab under mentorship of Yudi Xie (22 June - 3 August)

  • Presented 'Convergent Neural Representations: Are artificial neural networks trained on different latent variables converging to similar representations of the ventral stream?'

2024 - 2024

Participant, University of Cambridge

www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/new-cambridge-centre-ai-medicine-ccaim-0

University of Cambridge Centre for AI in Medicine Summer School (11 September - 15 September)

  • (Module) Time-Series in Healthcare
  • (Module) Individualised Treatment Effects
  • (Module) Synthetic Data
  • (Module) Causal Deep Learning ML for Clinical Trials
  • (Module) Large Language Models

2023 - 2023

Participant, University College Dublin

www.ucd-ml-mi.com/

UCD Medical Imaging Summer School (7 June - 21 August)

  • (Module) Fourier transforms in MRI Imaging
  • (Module) Federated Learning
  • (Module) Segmentation
  • (Module) Explainable AI
  • (Project) MRNet: Knee MRI Examination using Spatial Attention and Vision Transformers

2023 - 2023

Participant, University College London

medicss.cs.ucl.ac.uk/

UCL Medical Image Computing Summer School (MedICSS, 11 July - 15 July)

  • (Module) Improving hearing care pathways with the use of machine learning
  • (Module) Computer Vision in Minimally Invasive Surgery
  • (Module) Data-driven disease progression modelling
  • (Module) Surgical video understanding with AI
  • (Techniques) PET Imaging, Cardiovascular MRI, Lung Fibrosis Imaging, Tomography
  • (Project) How old is your brain? Predicting brain age with deep learning (Utilized Keras and Tensorflow libraries, Interacted with different medical imaging datatypes)

2022 - 2022

Volunteer and presenter, ICCV Paris 2023

iccv2023.thecvf.com/

Volunteered and presented at the International Conference on Computer Vision

  • Presented a multimodal contrastive learning method for Alzheimer's detection (arxiv: 2308.15469)
  • Volunteered for organising the conference, which involves helping presenters and setting up IT equipment

2023 - 2023

Co-president, St Andrew's College Maths Club

www.sac.ie/page/?title=Extra+Curricular+Activities&pid=140

Co-organiser of St Andrew's College Math Club

  • Preparing problems for maths club members, registering the school into competitions such as Canadian Senior Maths Contest, presenting key concepts in number theory, combinatorics, algebra and geometry to maths club members

2022 - Present

President, St Andrew's College Competitive Programming Club

www.sac.ie/page/?title=Extra+Curricular+Activities&pid=140

Started a Competitive programming club in St Andrew's College.

  • Preparing problems for coding club members, introducing new members to programming languages: C++, Python, registering the school into competitions such as Bebras Computing Challenge, presenting key concepts in Data Structures and Algorithms to club members

2022 - Present

Publications

Multimodal Representation Learning using Adaptive Graph Construction, Weichen Huang, , 2024

arxiv.org/abs/2410.06395

High School Projects project track (top 4 out of 335 submissions), the Thirty-Eighth Annual 2024 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS).

Multimodal Contrastive Learning and Tabular Attention for Automated Alzheimer's Disease Prediction, Weichen Huang, , 2023

arxiv.org/abs/2308.15469

2023 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)

Improved Multimodal Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease through MRI and PET Image Fusion, Weichen Huang, Z. Chang, Prof. K. Curran, , 2023

www.rsna.org/annual-meeting

Radiology Conference & Annual Meeting - RSNA 2023

Spurious Correlation Mitigation in CXR Images via Reinforcement learning and Self-Supervision, Weichen Huang, Prof. K. Curran, , 2023

www.universityofgalway.ie/c3i/news---events/imvip_2023/

25th Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference

Feature scaling and attention convolutions for extreme precipitation prediction, Weichen Huang, , 2022

ai4good.org/fragile-earth-2022/

ACM KDD 2022 Workshop: Fragile Earth 2022; also presented at Self Help Africa, Irish Aid program

Awards

NeurIPS'24 High School Projects paper award, NeurIPS'24, 2024

High School Projects project track (top 4 out of 335 submissions), the Thirty-Eighth Annual 2024 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS). Dec 10, 2024.

USACO Gold, USACO, 2023

USACO Gold Division

Western Europe Olympiad in Informatics, WEOI, 2024

Irish team member (rank 42): https://weoi.org/results/2023/

AIPO/IrlCPC Finalist, AIPO, 2024

AIPO/IrlCPC Finalist 2022, 2023, 2024. Top 10 competitive programmers in Ireland. IOI Selection team

Meta Hacker Cup (round 2), Facebook, 2022

http://www.facebook.com/codingcompetitions/hacker-cup/2022/certificate/810515623321556

Google Kickstart (round E, F, G), Google, 2022

https://codingcompetitions.withgoogle.com/kickstart/certificate/summary/00000000008caba4

Category 2nd place, BT Young Scientist Exhibition, BT Young Scientist Exhibition, 2024

Title: Multimodal Contrastive Learning and Tabular Attention for Automated Alzheimer's Disease Prediction, report: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.15469v1; code repository: https://huggingface.co/spaces/whuang06/btdemo2024

Irish Research Council Award, Irish Research Council, 2024

Scifest Boston Scientific Award, Boston Scientific, 2024

Category 1st place, BT Young Scientist Exhibition, BT Young Scientist Exhibition, 2023

Title: Self-Supervised Cross-Modal Representation Learning, code repository: https://huggingface.co/spaces/whuang06/CXR_predict

Stripe Software Award, Stripe, 2023

Category 1st place, BT Young Scientist Exhibition, BT Young Scientist Exhibition, 2022

Title: Extreme weather prediction using attention augmented convolutions, project page: https://weichen-huang.github.io/projects/saconvnets

Met Eireann Award, Met Eireann, 2022

Category 1st place, BT Young Scientist Exhibition, BT Young Scientist Exhibition, 2021

Title: Using Efficientnets and lung X-ray imaging to detect COVID-19, project page: https://weichen-huang.github.io/projects/covidEfficientnet

BPhO Bronze, BPhO, 2024

Bronze medal in British Physics Olympiad

Canadian Senior Math Contest, CSMC, 2024

Distinction and Roll of Honour in Canadian Senior Math Contest

Canadian Senior Math Contest, CSMC, 2023

Roll of Honour in Canadian Senior Math Contest

IrMO Finalist, Irish Math Olympiad, 2022

Finalist in Math Olympiad

TY Distinction, St. Andrews College, 2023

Awarded Gold Distinction at TY Closing Ceremony

SciFest 2021 Innovator's award, St Andrew's College, 2021

St Andrew's College Academic Award, St Andrew's College, 2021

References

Available on request