I am a PhD student in the Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics (DCMB) at the University of Michigan (U-M). I am a member of the Machine Learning in Neurosurgery Laboratory, led by Dr. Todd Hollon. My research focuses on computer vision, machine learning, and biomedical data science. I am especially interested in representation learning and integrating observations from multiple modalities. Previously, I completed a joint BSE/MSE degree program in Computer Science and Engineering at U-M, where I also played tenor saxophone in the Michigan Marching Band.

Recent Publications

ICLR LMRL WORKSHOP | 2026 SPOTLIGHT

Incorporating contextual information into KGWAS for interpretable GWAS discovery

Cheng Jiang, ..., Burkhard Hoeckendorf, Heming Yao, and David Richmond

NEURIPS AIM-FM WORKSHOP | 2024

A self-supervised framework for learning whole slide representations

Xinhai Hou *, Cheng Jiang*, ..., Honglak Lee, and Todd C. Hollon

NATURE | 2024

Foundation models for fast, label-free detection of glioma infiltration

Akhil Kondepudi, Melike Pekmezci, Xinhai Hou, Katie Scotford, Cheng Jiang, ..., Shawn Hervey-Jumper, and Todd Hollon

CVPR | 2023 HIGHLIGHT

Hierarchical discriminative learning improves visual representations of biomedical microscopy

Cheng Jiang*, Xinhai Hou*, ..., Honglak Lee, and Todd C. Hollon

NEURIPS DATASETS & BENCHMARKS | 2022

OpenSRH: optimizing brain tumor surgery using intraoperative stimulated Raman histology

Cheng Jiang*, Asadur Chowdury*, Xinhai Hou*, ..., Honglak Lee, and Todd C. Hollon

Awards

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke | NIH/NINDS F31NS135973 | December 2023

University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School | April 2022

National Science Foundation | March 2021

University of Michigan Marching Band | May 2019

University of Michigan EECS Department | March 2019

University of Michigan | March 2017

Teaching

Summer Program @ University of Michigan

Summer 2022 | Summer 2021

ENGR 101 @ University of Michigan

Introduction to Computers & Programming

Winter 2021 | Fall 2020 | Winter 2020 | Fall 2019