Hanqi Jiang (蒋瀚祺)

Stanford University Visiting Student, Stanford University
University of Georgia Final-year Ph.D. Student, The University of Georgia
Co-founder of GyriQAI

I am a final-year Ph.D. student at University of Georgia, supervised by Distinguished Research Professor Tianming Liu. I am also a visiting student at Stanford University, guided by Prof. Lei Xing. My research focus is Quantum AI & Medical Image Analysis & Brain-inspired AI. If you are seeking any form of academic cooperation, please feel free to email me at hanqi.jiang@uga.edu (UGA) or hjiang81@mgh.harvard.edu (MGH).


Education
  • University of Georgia

    University of Georgia

    Ph.D. in Computer Science Sep. 2024 - Now

  • Lancaster University

    Lancaster University

    B.S. in Computer Science (First-Class Honored) Sep. 2019 - Jul. 2023

  • Beijing Jiaotong University

    Beijing Jiaotong University

    B.Eng. in Computer Science Sep. 2019 - Jul. 2023

Honors & Awards
  • NSF Student Travel Award, AAAI FSS25 (QIML) 2025
  • Outstanding Graduation Project of Beijing Province 2023
Experience
  • Stanford University

    Stanford University

    Visiting Student, guided by Prof. Lei Xing Aug. 2026 - Now

  • Center for Advanced Medical Computing and Analysis (CAMCA), MGB/Harvard Medical School

    Center for Advanced Medical Computing and Analysis (CAMCA), MGB/Harvard Medical School

    Radiology Research Mar. 2025 - Now

  • School of Computing, UGA

    School of Computing, UGA

    Research Assistant & Teaching Assistant Sep. 2024 - Now

  • School of Data Science, CUHK(SZ)

    School of Data Science, CUHK(SZ)

    Research Assistant Jul. 2023 - Sep. 2023

News
2026
🎉 A paper is accepted by NeurIPS 2026 Evaluations & Datasets Track (CORE A*)!
Sep 25
📰 Our work on SYNAPSE and long-term AI agent memory was featured by UGA's Franklin College of Arts and Sciences.
Sep 16
🎉 Two papers are accepted by EMNLP 2026 (CORE A*)!
Aug 25
🎓 I started as a visiting student at Stanford University, guided by Prof. Lei Xing.
Aug 10
🎉 A paper is accepted by ACL 2026 (CORE A*)!
Apr 06
🎉 A paper is accepted by ICME 2026 (CORE A)!
Mar 16
🎉 A paper is accepted by Journal of Manufacturing Systems (IF=14.2) !
Jan 29
🎉 A paper is accepted by SenSys 2026 (CORE A*)!
Jan 29
🎉 A paper is accepted by Meta-Radiology (IF=13.3)!
Jan 27
2025
🎉 A paper is accepted by NeurIPS 2025 Workshop!
Nov 17
🎉 A paper is accepted by QIML AAAI Fall 2025 Symposium!
Aug 25
🎉 A paper is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (IF=4.5)!
Aug 13
🎉 A paper is accepted by 2025 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Artificial Intelligence!
Aug 10
🎉 A paper is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (IF=10.2)!
Jun 13
🎓 I transferred to the University of Georgia, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, School of Computing as a PhD student of Computer Science.
Apr 16
👨‍🔬 I joined Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital as an intern, guided by Prof. Xiang Li.
Mar 19
🎉 A paper is accepted by ICLR 2025 (CORE A*)!
Jan 21
🎉 A paper is accepted by ISBI 2025 (oral presentation), see you in Houston!
Jan 01
2024
🎉 A paper is accepted by AAAI 2025 (CORE A*)!
Dec 08
🎉 A paper is accepted by IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering (IF=17.2)!
Oct 30

Selected Publications

All publications

MedVIGIL: Evaluating Trustworthy Medical VLMs Under Broken Visual Evidence

Hanqi Jiang, Junhao Chen, Yi Pan, Lifeng Chen, Weihang You, Haozhen Gong, Ruiyu Yan, Jinglei Lv, Lin Zhao, Hui Ren, Quanzheng Li, Tianming Liu, Xiang Li(† corresponding author)

NeurIPS 2026 (Evaluations & Datasets Track)

Paper Project Dataset Blog
Abstract

MedVIGIL evaluates whether medical vision-language models recognize when visual evidence no longer supports an answer. The clinician-supervised benchmark tests false premises, wording changes, and image perturbations, measuring safe refusal and silent failure alongside answer correctness.

SYNAPSE: Empowering LLM Agents with Episodic-Semantic Memory via Spreading Activation

Hanqi Jiang, Junhao Chen, Yi Pan, Ling Chen, Weihang You, Yifan Zhou, Ruidong Zhang, Yohannes Abate, Tianming Liu(† corresponding author)

Findings of ACL 2026

Paper Code Blog
Abstract

SYNAPSE organizes episodic and semantic memories in a unified graph. Spreading activation, lateral inhibition, and temporal decay identify relevant subgraphs, while hybrid retrieval combines graph activation with semantic similarity to support long-term agent memory.

ViThinker: Active Vision-Language Reasoning via Dynamic Perceptual Querying

Weihang You, Qingchan Zhu, David Liu, Yi Pan, Geng Yuan, Hanqi Jiang†(† corresponding author)

ICME 2026 Spotlight

Paper
Abstract

ViThinker enables vision-language models to generate perceptual queries during reasoning. A two-stage training curriculum distills frozen vision experts and learns task-driven querying, allowing the model to synthesize relevant visual features without external tool calls at inference time.

Quantum Artificial Intelligence: A Comprehensive Survey

Hanqi Jiang, Yi Pan, Junhao Chen, Zhengliang Liu, Lichao Sun, Quanzheng Li, Lu Zhang, Dajiang Zhu, Xianqiao Wang, Wei Liu, Xiang Li, Gang Li, Wei Zhang, Lin Zhao, Xiaowei Yu, Yingfeng Wang, Tianming Liu(† corresponding author)

Meta-Radiology 2026 IF=13.3

Paper
Abstract

This survey examines the bidirectional relationship between quantum computing and artificial intelligence, covering AI for quantum hardware and algorithms, quantum methods for learning, and the practical challenges of hybrid quantum-classical systems.

ADLGen: Synthesizing Symbolic, Event-Triggered Sensor Sequences for Human Activity Modeling

Weihang You*, Hanqi Jiang*, Zishuai Liu, Zihang Xie, Tianming Liu, Jin Lu, Fei Dou†(* equal contribution)(† corresponding author)

SenSys 2026

Paper
Abstract

ADLGen synthesizes symbolic, event-triggered sensor sequences for human activity modeling, providing a novel approach to activity recognition and modeling.

Bridging Classical and Quantum Computing for Next-Generation Language Models

Yi Pan*, Hanqi Jiang*, Junhao Chen, Yiwei Li, Huaqin Zhao, Lin Zhao, Yohannes Abate, Yingfeng Wang†, Tianming Liu†(* equal contribution)(† corresponding author)

AAAI QIML 2025 Conference

Paper
Abstract

We introduce Adaptive Quantum-Classical Fusion (AQCF), the first framework to bridge quantum and classical computing through dynamic, quantum-classical co-design for next-generation language models.

MolQAE: Quantum Autoencoder for Molecular Representation Learning

Yi Pan*, Hanqi Jiang*, Wei Ruan, Dajiang Zhu, Xiang Li, Yohannes Abate, Yingfeng Wang†, Tianming Liu†(* equal contribution)(† corresponding author)

QAI 2025 Conference

Paper
Abstract

Quantum Autoencoder for Molecular Representation Learning.

Argus: Leveraging Multi-View Images for Improved 3D Scene Understanding with Large Language Models

Yifan Xu, Chao Zhang, Hanqi Jiang, Xiaoyan Wang, Ruifei Ma, Yiwei Li, Zihao Wu, Zeju Li, Xiangde Liu†(† corresponding author)

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems 2025 Journal (IF=10.2)

Paper
Abstract

Leveraging Multi-View Images for Improved 3D Scene Understanding with Large Language Models.

EG-SpikeFormer: Eye-Gaze Guided Transformer on Spiking Neural Networks for Medical Image Analysis

Yi Pan*, Hanqi Jiang*, Junhao Chen, Yiwei Li, Huaqin Zhao, Yifan Zhou, Peng Shu, Zihao Wu, Zhengliang Liu, Dajiang Zhu, Xiang Li, Yohannes Abate, Tianming Liu†(* equal contribution)(† corresponding author)

ISBI 2025 Oral Conference

Paper
Abstract

Eye-Gaze Guided Transformer on Spiking Neural Networks for Medical Image Analysis.

Eye-gaze Guided Multi-modal Alignment for Medical Representation Learning

Chong Ma, Hanqi Jiang, Wenting Chen, Yiwei Li, Zihao Wu, Xiaowei Yu, Zhengliang Liu, Lei Guo, Dajiang Zhu, Tuo Zhang, Dinggang Shen, Tianming Liu†, Xiang Li†(† corresponding author)

NeurIPS 2024 Conference

Paper
Abstract

We propose EGMA, a novel framework for medical multi-modal alignment, marking the first attempt to integrate eye-gaze data into vision-language pre-training. EGMA outperforms existing state-of-the-art medical multi-modal pre-training methods, and realizes notable enhancements in image classification and image-text retrieval tasks. EGMA demonstrates that even a small amount of eye-gaze data can effectively assist in multi-modal pre-training and improve the feature representation ability of the model.