Portrait of Wanyu Bian

Wanyu Bian εžε©‰η‘œ

Scientist / Senior ML Engineer Β· Multimodal AI Β· Medical Imaging Β· Representation Learning

Summary

I'm Wanyu Bian, from Xi'an, China β€” currently a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Apple. I have 7+ years of research and industry experience spanning generative AI, mathematical optimization, and large-scale multimodal systems. My work bridges theory and real-world deployment, with a strong focus on diffusion models, meta-learning, and model-driven deep learning. I have published 10+ first-author papers (MICCAI, IEEE TMI, MRM) and contributed to multiple patents in foundation modeling and computational imaging.

Generative AI Vision–Language Modeling Multimodal Diffusion Models Transformer / Vision Transformer Optimization & Inverse Problems Representation / Embedding Network LLM Reasoning Scalable ML Infrastructure

Education

  • Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
    Advisor: Yunmei Chen Aug 2017 – Aug 2022
  • M.S. in Applied Mathematics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
    Advisor: Yunmei Chen Aug 2017 – May 2019
  • B.S. in Applied Mathematics &
    B.S. in Statistics
    University of Missouri, Columbia, MO Aug 2013 – May 2017

Professional Service

Editorial Board Β· Deep Science Publishing
Program Committee Β· 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

70+ reviews conducted for the following journals and conferences:

MICCAI 2024–2026
Impact Factor 7.8 Β· Ranked #8 in Engineering & Technology (Research.com)
NeurIPS 2024–2025
Ranked #1 in Artificial Intelligence Β· #2 in Engineering & Computer Science (Google Scholar)
ICLR 2025
Ranked #2 in Artificial Intelligence Β· #3 in Engineering & Computer Science (Google Scholar)
ICML 2025
Ranked #3 in Artificial Intelligence Β· #7 in Engineering & Computer Science (Google Scholar)
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
Impact Factor 9.8 Β· Ranked #2 in Radiology & Medical Imaging (Google Scholar)
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing
Impact Factor 13.7 Β· Ranked #9 in Signal Processing (Google Scholar)
Applied Sciences
Ranked #5 in Engineering & Computer Science (general) (Google Scholar)
Mathematics
Ranked #5 in Physics & Mathematics (general) (Google Scholar)
Sustainability
Ranked #6 in Life Sciences & Earth Sciences (general) (Google Scholar)

Leadership

President, AMS Graduate Student Chapter University of Florida Β· 2020–2022
Research Chair, AWM UF 2019–2022

Honors & Awards

MICCAI 2022 NIH Participation Award
MICCAI 2020 Student Participation Award
SIAM Student Travel Award 2020
DataFest "Best in Show," University of Missouri, 2017