AI RESEARCH STUDENT

Hi, I'm Anteng Cai.

Learning by building.
Researching for better care.

I explore medical AI, representation learning, and multimodal systems — from respiratory sounds and robust ECG models to organ-centric image segmentation.

Medical AIRepresentation learningMultimodal systems
EDUCATION

University of Liverpool

B.Sc. · Data Science and Big Data Technology

Sep 2023 — Present3.6 / 4.0 GPA

Academic Half ScholarshipTop 10% · 2023–2024

01 / SELECTED RESEARCH

Learning from medical data.

Sound, signals & images
GENERATIVE AUDIO01
ICASSP 2027 · Submitted

C2GA

Respiratory sound generative augmentation

Class-controllable synthesis for small, noisy, and imbalanced respiratory-sound datasets.

+6.65 ppValidation macro-F1 · Dataset 2
42.85% → 49.50%
My contribution & method

Third author. Reproduced temporal and self-supervised baselines, built downstream classification experiments, ran ablations, tuned augmentation settings, and contributed to verification and manuscript revision.

Conditional VQ-VAE → autoregressive prior → controlled synthesis → downstream validation. Dataset 1 macro-F1 improved from 73.20% to 77.15%.

VQ-VAE · TransformerRelated code ↗
ROBUST BIOSIGNALS02
IEEE BIBM 2026 · Accepted short paper

Missing-lead ECG

Controlled attribution of robustness

Understanding what makes ECG classifiers robust when anatomical groups of leads are missing.

+0.0243Hard-structured macro AUPRC
Compact 1D-ResNet · PTB-XL
My contribution & method

Third author. Contributed to controlled ablation design, robustness evaluation, result analysis, hyperparameter comparison, and manuscript preparation.

Structured masking improved macro AUPRC from 0.7494 to 0.7737 for the compact 1D-ResNet. Gains also held for xResNet1d101 and InceptionTime1d, with consistent direction across all five seeds.

Structured masking · PTB-XL2026
MEDICAL IMAGING03
Ongoing research

OrganSlot / OWT

Modular organ representations

Appendable, optionally frozen organ-specific token banks for modular medical image segmentation.

+10.76 ppDirect-post Dice · WORD ROI20
64.44% → 75.20%
My contribution & method

Implemented PyTorch/DDP training and evaluation, resolved distributed all-reduce deadlocks, and ran 2D/3D shared-head, independent-query, Slot Attention, and reconstruction ablations.

Current evidence is all-class offline. AutoPET Direct Dice was 87.98% versus 88.30% for OWT; indirect reconstruction remains a bottleneck (7.39% on WORD ROI20).

Slot Attention · ViT · DDP2026 — Present

02 / INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

From experiments
to working systems.

Hands-on work across industrial vision, speech recognition, and multimodal model development.

Let's connect

Shiyuan Technology

Aug 2025 — Mar 2026

Computer Vision Algorithm Intern

Built PCBA data and evaluation pipelines, explored model calibration and parameter fusion, and implemented U-Net3+ DataMatrix reconstruction with 98% offline accuracy.

Patent contribution

Contributed technical work supporting granted Chinese invention patent CN122510276B on multi-model parameter fusion for PCBA image detection (Sep 2026).

Industrial visionCalibration / ECEU-Net3+

DeepBlue Technology

Nov 2024 — Jun 2025

AI Algorithm and Product Intern

Reproduced CLIP/BERT-based models for image classification, medical NLP, and NER; trained Transformer models and validated Docker deployments.

CLIP / BERTPyTorchDocker

iFLYTEK

Dec 2024 — Feb 2025

Speech AI Algorithm Intern

Prepared and checked speech datasets, assisted Conformer, Paraformer, and Transformer-CTC experiments, and analyzed recognition quality with WER/CER.

ASRAudio augmentationConformer

03 / EXPLORATIONS

Always building something.

Research tools & side projects

MEDICAL IMAGING

Lumbar spine imaging

Reproducing the RSNA 2024 lumbar-spine pipeline; training nnU-Net v2 on SPIDER and investigating segmentation-guided anatomical priors.

nnU-Net v2 · MRI · 3DIn progress
MEDICAL AUDIO

Respiratory sound classification

Exploring deep learning for respiratory sound classification, with audio preprocessing and downstream model evaluation.

Deep learning · AudioView repository →
ROBOTICS & REINFORCEMENT LEARNING

Robotic arm simulation

ROS2 + Isaac Sim control and planning; reinforcement-learning state, action, and reward design, with WebSocket-based visualization.

ROS2 · Isaac Sim · RLJun — Aug 2025
CREATIVE CODING

3D editor & Rocksi

A small creative playground: a 3D editor with a custom card-based programming interface, built with JavaScript.

JavaScript · 3DView repository →
Also on GitHub: UR5 with Gazebo, MoveIt & RViz ↗

04 / TOOLBOX

Tools I work with.

Models & learning

PyTorch · TensorFlow · Transformers · VQ-VAE · CLIP · Slot Attention · MAE

Medical & speech AI

nnU-Net v2 · MONAI · DICOM / NIfTI · Librosa · Torchaudio · FFmpeg

Code & systems

Python · C++ · SQL · Linux · Docker · CUDA · PyTorch DDP · ROS2

KEEP IN TOUCH

Good work starts with a conversation.

Medical AI, representation learning, or an interesting idea to build together.

Say hello