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- HHB730, Hung Hom Bay Campus
- +852 2766 7681
- nizhuan.wang@polyu.edu.hk
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Dr. Nizhuan Wang is currently serving as a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Language Science and Technology at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. Prior to this role, he held positions at Shenzhen University as an Assistant Professor, Jiangsu Ocean University as a full Professor, and ShanghaiTech University as an Associate Researcher from 2016 to 2024.
He is Committee Member of Neural Regeneration and Tissue Organ Repair of Chinese Research Hospital Association, as well as the Board Member of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence Subspecialty Expert Group, a senior member of Chinese Biomedical Engineering Society, a member of Chinese Artificial Intelligence Society, a member of Chinese Neuroscience Society, a member of the board of the Shanghai Association for Noetic Science, a member of OHBM and IEEE, the Program Committee member of 2018 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation (ICIA), 2022 Chinese Conference on Biometric Recognition (CCBR), 2025 Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC), and 2026 AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2026), the Session Chairs of 2017 IEEE ICIA and 2018 ICIS, the Keynote Speaker of 2020 ICMLCA, the Program Committee Chair and Keynote Speaker of 2021 ICBIC, Keynote Speaker of 2022 ICBIC, Expert Speaker of 2025 Brain Science Theory Seminar Meeting, Speaker of 2025 The 4th Smart Healthcare and Rehabilitation Conference and the 7th Brain-Computer Interface Forum, Plenary Speaker of 2025 International Neural Regeneration Symposium (INRS2025), Invited Speaker of The 5th International Electronic Conference on Brain Sciences & 1st International Electronic Conference on Neurosciences (IECBS-IECNS 2026), Senior Associate Editor of Cognitive Neurodynamics (CODY) (Springer-Nature Press, JCR Q2, SCIE, IF2024: 3.9, 2025 - present), Associate Editor of Advanced Technology in Neuroscience (ATN) (Wolters Kluwer Health Press, 2025 - present), and Editorial Board Member of Algorithms (MDPI, 2026 - present). He has published over 90 scientific papers in many journals and conferences, i.e., IEEE TMI, IEEE TIM, IEEE TBME, IEEE JBHI, IEEE TNSRE, J Med Internet Res, Neural Netw, Hum Brain Mapp, Magn Reson Imaging, Brain Lang, J Neurolinguistics, AAAI, MICCAI, IEEE ICME, IEEE BIBM etc. He serves as the reviewer of many top journals such as Nat Comput Sci, Neuroimage, Hum Brain Mapp, IEEE Transactions, MED IMAGE ANAL, etc.
Education and Academic Qualifications
- 2016
PhD, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai, P.R. China
Academic and Professional Experience
- 2022 - 2024
Associate Researcher, School of Biomedical Engineering, ShanghaiTech University - 2018 - 2021
Professor and Head, Department of Software Engineering, School of Computer Engineering. Jiangsu Ocean University - 2016-2018 Tenure-track Assistant Professor and Deputy Head, Medical Information Engineering Department, School of Biomedical Engineering, Shenzhen University
Teaching Areas
- Computer Science
- Neuroscience
- Computational Linguistics
- Brain-Computer Interface
- Artificial Intelligence
- Signal / Image Processing
Research Interests
Selected Publications
- Gong, S., Li, Y., Kang, Z., Chai, B., Zeng, W., Yan, H., ... & Wang, N. (2026). LEL: Lipschitz Continuity Constrained Ensemble Learning for Efficient EEG-Based Intra-subject Emotion Recognition. IEEE Sensors Journal, 1-1. https://doi.org/10.1109/jsen.2026.3672658
- Dong, W., Li, Y., Zeng, W., Chen, L., Yan, H., Siok, W. T., & Wang, N. (2025). STARFormer: A novel spatio-temporal aggregation reorganization transformer of FMRI for brain disorder diagnosis. Neural Networks, 192, 107927. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2025.107927
- Chen, H., Zeng, W., Chen, C., Cai, L., Wang, F., Shi, Y., Wang, L., Zhang, W., Li, Y., Yan, H., Siok, W. T., & Wang, N. (2025). EEG emotion copilot: Optimizing lightweight LLMS for emotional EEG interpretation with assisted medical record generation. Neural Networks, 192, 107848. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2025.107848
- Komolafe, T. E., Monkam, P., Komolafe, B. F., & Wang, N. (Eds.). (2025). Modern Technologies in Healthcare: AI, Computer Vision, Robotics. CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003481959
- Li, Y., Zeng, W., Dong, W., Han, D., Chen, L., Chen, H., Kang, Z., Gong, S., Yan, H., Siok, W. T., & Wang, N. (2025). A tale of single-channel electroencephalography: devices, datasets, signal processing, applications, and future directions. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 74, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1109/tim.2025.3556900
- Cai, L., Zeng, W., Chen, H., Zhang, H., Li, Y., Feng, Y., Yan, H., Bian, L., Siok, W. T., & Wang, N. (2025). MM-GTUNets: Unified multi-modal graph deep learning for brain disorders prediction. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 44(9), 3705-3716. https://doi.org/10.1109/TMI.2025.3556420
- Yan, H., Mubonanyikuzo, V., Komolafe, T. E., Zhou, L., Wu, T., & Wang, N. (2025). Hybrid-RViT: Hybridizing ResNet-50 and vision transformer for enhanced Alzheimer’s disease detection. PloS ONE, 20(2), e0318998. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0318998
- Mubonanyikuzo, V., Yan, H., Komolafe, T. E., Zhou, L., Wu, T., & Wang, N. (2025). Detection of Alzheimer disease in neuroimages using vision transformers: systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of medical Internet Research, 27, 1-16. Article e62647. https://doi.org/10.2196/62647
- Li, Y., Kang, Z., Gong, S., Dong, W., Zeng, W., Yan, H., Siok, W. T., & Wang, N. (2025, June). Neural-MCRL: Neural multimodal contrastive representation learning for EEG-based visual decoding. In 2025 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1109/icme59968.2025.11210130
- 2025 - 2027
Principal Investigator, Personalizing Cantonese Speech Decoding in EEG-Based Brain-Computer Interfaces through Voiceprint Integration (Project No. P0056428) - 2024 - 2026
Principal Investigator, A Pilot Study of Cantonese Speech Brain-Machine Interface (BMI): Converting Neural Activity into Cantonese Text Using Electroencephalogram (EEG) Recordings (Project No. P0053210)
- 2025 - Present
Senior Associate Editor, Cognitive Neurodynamics (CODY) (Springer-Nature Press, JCR Q2, SCIE, IF2024: 3.9) - 2025 - Present
Associate Editor, Advanced Technology in Neuroscience (ATN) (Wolters Kluwer Health Press) - 2026 - Present
Editorial Board Member of Algorithms (MDPI)
- Committee Member of Neural Regeneration and Tissue Organ Repair of Chinese Research Hospital Association
- Board Member of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence Subspecialty Expert Group
- Senior member of Chinese Biomedical Engineering Society
- Board Member of the Shanghai Association for Noetic Science
- 2023
Excellent Master Thesis Supervisor of Jiangsu Ocean University - 2020
Excellent Undergraduate Thesis Supervisor of Jiangsu Province Award - 2019
Excellent Instructor of the National University Computer Ability Challenge Award - 2018
Shanghai Science and Technology Progress Award - 2018
The second prize of the 4th Lianyungang Natural Science Outstanding Academic Achievement Award - 2018
Finalist Winners of Young Scholar Award of the 5th Symposium of Research and Application on Neuroimage and EEG
