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SCRI scholars honoured as RGC Senior Research Fellow in recognition of outstanding research achievements

25 Jul 2025


Prof. TAN Kay Chen, Head of the Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, Chair Professor of Computational Intelligence, and Member of the Otto Poon Charitable Foundation Smart Cities Research Institute (SCRI), has been awarded fellowships under the Research Grants Council’s (RGC) Senior Research Fellow Scheme (SRFS) and Research Fellow Scheme (RFS) 2025/26, in recognition of their outstanding research achievements in the fields of biomedical engineering, artificial intelligence, and advanced materials.

Prof. Tan’s project, “Towards adaptive pretrained vision-language foundation models for medical image analysis”, aims to develop an integrated intelligent interpretation system to provide personalised and human-centric healthcare, featuring several functionalities such as visual question answering, radiology reports and computer-aided diagnosis.

Press release: https://polyu.me/44KjwrY

 

Online coverage:

Dot Dot News – https://polyu.me/419eoeA (Chinese only)

hkong.hk – https://polyu.me/46VZ2hh (Chinese only)



Research Units Otto Poon Charitable Foundation Smart Cities Research Institute

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