Hi~ I’m a Ph.D. candidate supervised by Prof. George Biros at The University of Texas at Austin. My research interests are computational biophysical modeling, inverse problem, graph neural network, representation learning and high performance computing.
Education
- Ph.D. in Computational Science Engineer, The University of Texas at Austin, 2026 (expected)
- M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineer, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2021
- B.S. in Electrical Engineer, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, 2019
Internship
- Software Engineer intern (Ph.D. Machine Learning) at Meta, 2025
- Quantitative Researcher intern at PanAgora, 2024
Awards
- 11/17/2025: UT Austin Dissertation Writing Fellowship.
- 9/29/2025: My first author paper published in the journal Medical Image Analysis got MICCAI MedIA best paper award! [MedIA]
- 9/24/2025: My research was recognized by Paul Navrátil Young Researcher Award!
- 9/18/2024: My first author paper published in MICCAI got shortlisted for MICCAI Best Paper and Young Scientist Award! [MICCAI]
- 11/20/2024: My co-author paper published in SC24: International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis got Best Student Paper Finalist! [SC24]
Publications

MedIA

MICCAI25
LNODE: Uncovering the Latent Dynamics of Abeta in Alzheimer’s Disease.
Zheyu Wen and George Biros

Brain Informatics
A single-snapshot inverse solver for two-species graph model of tau pathology spreading in human Alzheimer’s disease.
Zheyu Wen, Ali Ghafouri and George Biros

MICCAI24
Biophysics-Based Data Assimilation of Longitudinal Tau and Amyloid-beta PET Scans.
Zheyu Wen, Ali Ghafouri and George Biros

SC24
A Scalable Algorithm for Active Learning.
Youguang Chen, Zheyu Wen and George Biros
