The people behind the lab

Meng Wang is an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Innovation & Precision Eye Health (InVision) and Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, working on precision and trustworthy artificial intelligence for healthcare. He received his PhD from Soochow University under the supervision of Prof. Xinjian Chen. He was a Scientist at the Institute of High Performance Computing, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), focusing on federated learning, trustworthy AI, and efficient large-scale models with Prof. Huazhu Fu, and a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard Medical School, working on cardiac MRI imaging with Prof. Reza Nezafat. Prior to his current position, he was a Research Fellow and Senior Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore under the mentorship of Prof. Ching-Yu Cheng, working on ophthalmic foundation models and multimodal AI.

His research focuses on trustworthy, multimodal, and clinically deployable AI for ophthalmology and broader healthcare. His interests include vision-language foundation models, multimodal AI, uncertainty modelling, open-set recognition, federated learning, and the safety and reliability of large models. His work has been published in leading journals and conferences, including Nature Communications, Cell Reports Medicine, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, CVPR, and MICCAI, and has received multiple international awards.