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Medical Imaging Research for Translational Healthcare with Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Department of Medicine in the College of Medicine
About the Lab Overview

The PI

Wei Shao, PhD, MS

Wei.Shao
UF Mirthai Lab

Dr. Wei Shao is an Assistant Professor of AI in Quantitative Health in the Department of Medicine and Assistant Director of AI Imaging Research at the Intelligent Critical Care Center (IC3) at the University of Florida. He also holds affiliate appointments in the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics. Dr. Shao received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering and M.S. in Mathematics from the University of Iowa in 2019, where his research focused on mathematical modeling for medical image registration. From 2019 to 2022, he completed his postdoctoral fellowship in Deep Learning for Medical Imaging in the Department of Radiology at Stanford University. His research focuses on developing mathematical and deep learning frameworks for medical image analysis, with emphasis on 3D and 4D generative diffusion models, vision-language models, and agentic AI for precision health and intelligent clinical care.

Current Research Interests

  • Medical Image Analysis
  • Deep Learning
  • Vision-Language Models
  • Multi-modal Data Fusion
  • Generative AI
  • Foundation Models

Education and Training

  • Postdoctoral, Stanford University, USA (2019 – 2022)
  • PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Iowa, USA (2014-2019)
  • MS, Mathematics, University of Iowa, USA (2014-2018)
  • BE, Electronics and Information Engineering, Soochow University, China (2014)

Academic Positions

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Florida (2022 – present)
  • Affiliate Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida (2022-present)
  • Assistant Director, AI Imaging Research, Intelligent Clinical Care Center, University of Florida (2022-present)

Honors and Awards

  • IEEE Senior Membership (2024-present)
  • Meritorious Winner Award (role: Mentor), CVPR 2025 Challenge on Text-guided 3D Biomedical Image Segmentation (2025)
  • Oberndorf AI Medical Scholarship Award (role: Mentor, award amount: $5,000), UF College of Medicine & Intelligent Clinical Care Center (2025)
  • Founders’ Award Paper Winner (role: AI mentor, award amount: $5,000), The Southern Association for Vascular Surgery (2023)
  • Winner Award (1st place out of 23 teams), The CTVIE19 Grand Challenge, AAPM, USA (2019)

Service Activities

Journal Associate Editor

  • IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (2025-present)

Journal Reviewer (selected list)

  • The Lancet
  • Nature Machine Intelligence
  • Medical Image Analysis
  • IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
  • Nature Communications
  • IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
  • Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Community Service

  • Student Recruitment and Admissions Committee, Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics, University of Florida (2023-present)
  • Session Chair, International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society, Orlando (2024)
  • Planning Committee, University of Florida Intelligent Clinical Care Center’s (IC3) Seminar Series (2022 – present)
  • Co-Organizer: AI2Heal Datathon, Intelligent Critical Care Center, University of Florida College of Medicine (2022-2023)
  • Program Committee, International Conference on Bioengineering, Biomedical Signal and Image Processing (BIOMESIP) (2021)
  • Planning Committee, IBIIS & AIMI Annual Retreat, Stanford University (2020)