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ATLANTA — Dong Hye Ye, an associate professor in Georgia State University’s Department of Computer Science, has received the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award.
The NSF CAREER Award recognizes early career faculty who demonstrate the potential to make significant contributions to research and education. The program supports faculty members as they build careers that integrate innovative research with educational excellence.
The award will provide more than $400,000 over five years to support Ye’s project, “Attending & Bridging Context in Vision-Language Modeling for Medical Image Analysis.” The project aims to develop artificial intelligence (AI) methods that interpret medical images together with clinical text and patient information, much as clinicians do, to produce more accurate, reliable and interpretable results, including automatically generated radiology reports. The research will explore applications in radiology reporting, eye disease and adolescent brain development.
“I am honored to receive this award,” Ye said. “Clinicians never read an image in isolation. They read it alongside the patient’s history, prior scans and clinical notes. This project is about building AI that does the same, and that stays reliable when that information is incomplete or noisy, as it often is in real clinics. I am grateful to the National Science Foundation for this support, and to my students, whose work made this possible.”
Ye joined Georgia State in 2022 and is a core faculty member of the tri-institutional Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science (TReNDS). His research focuses on advancing medical imaging through machine learning, with applications in neuroimaging, eye disease, CT image reconstruction and microscopy. During his doctoral studies, Ye conducted research in the Section for Biomedical Image Analysis at the University of Pennsylvania.
Todd N. Rosenstiel, dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at Georgia State, said Ye deserves this national recognition.
“I am delighted to see Dr. Ye receive this prestigious research award from the National Science Foundation. His work reflects the kind of truly innovative research and commitment to public impact that makes our College of Arts & Sciences community so inspiring,” Rosenstiel said. “By advancing AI methods that can help clinicians interpret medical images with greater accuracy and reliability, Dr. Ye is directly contributing to research with meaningful potential to improve patient care. We are proud to celebrate this achievement and look forward to the impact of his work on research, education and the communities we serve.”
For more information on Ye and his work, click here.
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