HI! My name is Qingpeng Kong (孔庆芃 in Chinese, pronounced as Kǒng Qìng Péng or Kaw-ng Ching Puh-ng), and you can also call me Erica.🥰 I’m a first-year master student at the University of Science and Technology of China, co-supervised by Prof. S. Kevin Zhou and Dr. Zihang Jiang. Previously, I served as a visiting intern at the Sustainable Computing Laboratory (SCL) located at the University of Notre Dame, supervised by Prof. Yiyu Shi. I also closely worked with Dr. Xiaomeng Li at HKUST, Dr. Xiaowei Xu at Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital, Dr. Wenfeng Song at Beijing Information Science and Technology University, and Prof. Tao Ren at Northeastern University.

My research primarily focuses on AI4Med, AI fairness, and computer vision. If you are interested in my work or want to collaborate, feel free to contact me via email: qpkong27 [at] gmail [dot] com. 🥳

🔥 News

  • 2024.09:  🎉🎉 I receive USTC First-class Scholarship
  • 2024.07:  🎉🎉 A paper is accepted by Nature Electronics
  • 2024.05:  🎉🎉 A paper is early accepted by MICCAI 2024
  • 2024.04:  🎉🎉 I receive NEU Outstanding Graduate Student Award
  • 2024.03:  🎉🎉 I join MIRACLE Lab as a coming master student

📝 Publications

MICCAI 2024
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Achieving Fairness Through Channel Pruning for Dermatological Disease Diagnosis early accept (acceptance rate: 11%)

Qingpeng Kong, Ching-Hao Chiu, Dewen Zeng, Yu-Jen Chen,Tsung-Yi Ho, Jingtong Hu and Yiyu Shi

Project Photos in MICCAI24@Morocco

  • We prune “sensitive” CNN channels to achieve fairness while maintaining high accuracy levels.
Nature Electronics
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Hardware Design and the Fairness of A Neural Network

Yuanbo Guo*, Zheyu Yan*, Xiaoting Yu, Qingpeng Kong, Joy C. Xie, Dewen Zeng, Yawen Wu, Zhenge Jia and Yiyu Shi

  • We investigate the impact of hardware constraints on fairness-aware neural network design, focusing on compute-in-memory architectures and their advancements.

🎖 Honors and Awards

  • 2024.09 University of Science and Technology of China First-class Scholarship.
  • 2024.04 Northeastern University Outstanding Graduate Student Award.
  • 2024.03 Northeastern University First-class Scholarship.
  • 2023.09 Second Place, Fair and Intelligent Embedded System Challenge at 19th ACM/IEEE EMBEDDED SYSTEMS WEEK.
  • 2023.09 Northeastern University Outstanding Students.
  • 2022.09 National scholarship.
  • 2022.09 Northeastern University Outstanding Student Medal Award.
  • 2022.09 Northeastern University First-class Scholarship.
  • 2022.09 Northeastern University Outstanding Students Pioneer.
  • 2021.09 National scholarship.
  • 2021.09 Northeastern University First-class Scholarship.
  • 2021.09 Northeastern University Outstanding Students Pioneer.

📖 Educations

  • 2024.09 - 2027.06 (expected), M.S., Biomedical Engineering, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China.
  • 2020.09 - 2024.06, B.E., Digital Media Technology, Software College, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China.
  • 2023.05 - 2023.07, Visiting Student, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, USA.

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