Bio

𝒯𝒾𝒶𝓃 𝒯𝒶𝓃 𝐵𝓊𝒹𝒹𝒽𝒶, 𝐻𝑜𝓃𝑔 𝒦𝑜𝓃𝑔

I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Engineering at Boston University, under the supervision of Prof. Vijaya Kolachalama. Prior to BU, I received my M.Phil. degree (2023) in Computer Science from City University of Hong Kong, supervised by Prof. Shiqi Wang. In 2017, I attended a summer school at University of California, Irvine.

𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝘀: In my career life, I keep seeking for a sweet spot between engaging in exciting research and open-sourcing impactful software and AI systems:

  • Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs)
  • Large Language Models (LLMs) [1]
  • Retrieval-augmented Generation (RAG) [1]
  • Generative AI [1]
  • Computer Vision [1]
  • AI4Science [1, 2, 3]

  • Research Focus Illustration
    Research Presentations and Resources
    𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡?

    𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 - Artificial Intelligence (AI)

  • AI In the 2020s And Beyond
  • 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 - Graph Neural Network (GNN)

  • Graph Convolutional Neural Networks
  • Attention-based BiLSTM-GCN
  • Dynamic Graph Convolutional Neural Networks
  • 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 - Natural Language Processing (NLP)

  • Foundation Models for Sequential Decision Making
  • Factual Associations in LLMs
  • Graph Matching
  • Sub-word BPE Algorithm for NMT
  • Concept Matching for Medical Terms
  • 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 - Computer Vision (CV)

  • Image Quality Assessment and Perceptual Optimization
  • Deep Learning Models Compression and Acceleration
  • 3D Human Pose Estimation and Human Body Reconstruction
  • YOLO Object Detection
  • 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 - Tutorials and Useful Coding Scripts

  • Usage of Cloud Server and Setting-up
  • Python Environment Setting-up
  • TensorFlow for Deep Learning
  • Crypto Currency Return and Price Prediction with Machine Learning
  • Big Data Parallel Processing by PySpark and Horovod Distributed Deep Learning
  • Download Papers from Sci-Hub via Unix Shell
  • Retrieve and Download Google Scholar Citation Papers
  • Homepage Shows Real-time Google Scholar Citations through PHP
  • Dynamic (Ajax) Web Crawler in Python
  • Deploy Machine Learning and Deep Learning Models with Flask and Docker as Web Applications
  • Convert PowerPoint (PPT) to PDF with Animations
  • Download YouTube Videos with Unlimited Speed via youtube-dl
  • Compile Hadoop, Install Redis, Flink, Kafka, ZooKepper, and Spark on macOS
  • Hadoop HDFS Data
  • Hive Configuration on macOS
  • Spark Configuration on macOS
  • Hadoop Configuration on Linux
  • Hive Configuration on Linux
  • Storm Configuration on Linux
  • Compiling Kaldi ASR on macOS
  • Server SSH and SCP Scripts
  • Shell Tmux Usage
  • Go Programming Scripts
  • Julia Programming Scripts
  • Python Conda Scripts
  • Python PyPI Package Building Scripts
  • npm Scripts
  • R Packages
  • SQL Programming Scripts
  • CSV Shell Scripts
  • macOS Homebrew Scripts
  • Install LaTeX on Linux
  • LaTeX Package Installation on macOS and EPS to PDF
  • LaTeX Useful Newcommands
  • LaTeX IEEE Conference Useful Scripts
  • LaTeX IEEE Trans Useful Scripts
  • Matlab GPU Acceleration Tricks
  • Run Multiple Python Scripts via Shell sh
  • Build PyTorch (CPU) from Source on macOS
  • PyTorch Control the Usage of CPU Resources
  • Build TensorFlow (CPU) from Source on macOS
  • Build TensorFlow (CPU) from Source on Linux
  • Build TensorFlow (GPU) from Source on Linux
  • Docker Basic Commands
  • Vim Basic Commands
  • Git Basic Commands
  • M.Phil. Thesis (LaTeX), City University of Hong Kong
  • 𝐄𝐱𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

  • On the Inductive Bias of Language Modeling | Oral Presentation (Tatsunori B. Hashimoto)
  • 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬

  • Foundation Models for Natural Language Processing: Pre-trained Language Models Integrating Media (Gerhard Paaß and Sven Giesselbach)
  • The Path to Artificial General Intelligence: Insights from Adversarial LLM Dialogue (Edward Y. Chang)
  • Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Christopher Bishop)
  • Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction (Richard S. Sutton and Andrew G. Barto)
  • Digital Image Processing (Rafael C. Gonzalez and Richard E. Woods)
  • Multiple View Geometry in Computer Vision (Richard Hartley and Andrew Zisserman)
  • Graph Representation Learning (William L. Hamilton)
  • Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective (Randal E. Bryant and David R. O'Hallaron)
  • Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface (David A. Patterson and John L. Hennessy)
  • 𝐀𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐬

  • Writing and Technical Presentations by Prof. Ayse Coskun
  • The Most Common Habits from more than 200 English Papers written by Graduate Chinese Engineering Students by Felicia Brittman
  • How to Write Good Research Articles by Prof. Xiaohua Jia
  • 业余做研究的经验 by Dr. Yuandong Tian
  • What is Research and How to do it? by Prof. Yi Ma
  • How to Write a Good CVPR Submission? by Prof. Bill Freeman
  • Tips on Writing Papers with Mathematical Content by Prof. John N. Tsitsiklis
  • How to Be a Responsible Reviewer by Prof. Jiebo Luo
  • How to Use the IEEEtran LaTeX Class
  • IEEE Editing Mathematics Guide (Standard)
  • IEEE Math Typesetting Guide (LaTeX)
  • IEEE Formula Comma and Period
  • IEEE Reference Guide (2021)
  • IEEE Citation Examples
  • Science and Engineering Journal Abbreviations
  • Standard abbreviations used in the IEEE Reference list
  • IEEE Editorial Style Manual (2021)
  • LaTeX Mathematical Symbols
  • Typesetting Subtleties by Prof. Vivek Goyal
  • Writing Mathematical Formulas in Markdown
  • InCites Journal Citation Reports (2021)
  • 中国计算机学会推荐国际学术会议和期刊目录 (2019)
  • 中国科学院SCI分区表 (2019)
  • 中国科学院国际期刊预警名单
  • Python编码风格与规范 @ Tencent
  • C++编码风格与规范 @ Tencent
  • JavaScript编码风格与规范 @ Tencent
  • Go编码风格与规范 @ Tencent
  • CVPR Paper, Supplementary Materials, and Rebuttal LaTeX Templates
  • PowerPoint (PPT) and LaTeX Demos of Academic Posters
  • National Science Foundation (NSF) Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG)
  • National Science Foundation (NSF) Biographical Sketch
  • NSF's Proposal Preparation & Submission Guidelines
  • ACL Fellow Nomination Form
  • CityU AP Promotion
  • RICE AP Offer
  • MIT EECS Courses
  • MIT EECS Organization and Labs (2019)
  • Artificial Intelligence Index Report by Stanford
  • 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬

  • 文章千古事, 得失寸心知 by Prof. Song-Chun Zhu
  • Statement of Purpose by Dr. Kai-Fu Lee
  • Dartmouth Summer Project on Artificial Intelligence (1956)
  • The Summer Vision Project at MIT (1966)
  • Turing Test (1950) by Alan Mathison Turing
  • The Bitter Lesson from 70 years of AI research by Richard Sutton
  • Academic Achievements of Prof. Richard Yi-Da Xu
  • Brief Bio of Prof. Richard Yi-Da Xu
  • Prompt Template Engineering Experiment by Prof. Edward Chang
  • 心灵之旅 by Prof. Edward Chang
  • 生命是什么? by Prof. Edward Chang
  • The Ph.D. Grind by Prof. Philip J. Guo
  • You and Your Research by Prof. Richard Hamming
  • You’ve Got to Find What You Love by Steve Jobs
  • A Brief History of Computational Vision by Prof. Song-Chun Zhu
  • Artificial Intelligence by Prof. Song-Chun Zhu
  • 上海交通大学学生生存手册
  • 李琳山教授个人数位典藏
  • Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
  • Contact

    𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗰𝘁

    Shuyue Jia (Bruce Jia)
    Department of ECE, Boston University
    Add: Kolachalama Lab, 14/F, Center for Computing & Data Sciences,
    Boston University, 665 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA 02215
    Tel: 6176851479
    Email: brucejia@bu.edu; shuyuej@ieee.org

    𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺



    Our Research Team @ Kolachalama Laboratory

    BU Center for Computing & Data Sciences, Boston, MA (2024 Spring)



    Our Research Team @ Kolachalama Laboratory

    BU Center for Computing & Data Sciences, Boston, MA (2024 Fall)



    Our Research Team @ Kolachalama Laboratory

    BU Center for Computing & Data Sciences, Boston, MA (2024 Winter)



    Our Research Team @ Kolachalama Laboratory

    BU Center for Computing & Data Sciences, Boston, MA (2024 Winter)


    Email: brucejia@bu.edu; shuyuej@ieee.org
    Resume Scholar 🤗 HuggingFace GitHub

    News

    Publications

    Topic 1 - Generative AI and Foundation Models

    1. PodGPT: An Audio-augmented Large Language Model for Research and Education
      Product Codes Paper

      Shuyue Jia, Subhrangshu Bit, Edward Searls, Meagan V. Lauber, Lindsey A. Claus, Pengrui Fan, Varuna H. Jasodanand, Divya Veerapaneni, William M. Wang, Rhoda Au, Vijaya B. Kolachalama
      medRxiv Preprint
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        PodGPT Project
        Here, we introduce PodGPT, an audio-augmented large language model (LLM) tailored for research and education. The process began by leveraging publicly available generative AI auto-regressive language models across various scales. These models underwent continuous pre-training on a curated dataset of English CC-BY podcasts produced by scientific journals and clinical experts, as well as content from The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). The podcast corpus comprised over 3,700 hours of audio, covering diverse topics in science, research, and medicine, visually summarized in the accompanying word cloud. The next phase involved developing the software infrastructure, which included an inference engine for model deployment, a messaging queue, database integration, retrieval augmented generation (RAG) implementation, API microservices, and a responsive human-machine interface. This highly performant and robust system enabled users with internet access to engage seamlessly with current research and educational material via an adaptive chatbot. The chatbot supported multi-turn conversations across various languages, empowering users to access and interact with STEMM knowledge in a dynamic and accessible manner.

    2. MedPodGPT: A Multilingual Audio-augmented Large Language Model for Medical Research and Education
      Product Codes Paper

      Shuyue Jia, Subhrangshu Bit, Edward Searls, Lindsey A. Claus, Pengrui Fan, Varuna H. Jasodanand, Meagan V. Lauber, Divya Veerapaneni, William M. Wang, Rhoda Au, Vijaya B. Kolachalama
      medRxiv Preprint
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        MedPodGPT Project
        Here, we introduce MedPodGPT, an audio-augmented large language model (LLM) designed for medical research and education. Medical podcasts offer audio content rich in specialized terminology, diverse medical topics, and expert dialogues, helping the medical community stay current with the latest information. Integrating this content into LLMs can enhance their ability to provide up-to-date clinical information.

    3. MedSyn: Text-guided Anatomy-aware Synthesis of High-Fidelity 3D CT Images
      Codes Paper

      Yanwu Xu, Li Sun, Wei Peng, Shuyue Jia, Katelyn Morrison, Adam Perer, Afrooz Zandifar, Shyam Visweswaran, Motahhare Eslami, Kayhan Batmanghelich
      IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (IEEE T-MI)

    Topic 2 - Computer Vision

    1. No-reference Image Quality Assessment via Non-local Dependency Modeling

      Shuyue Jia, Dingquan Li, Shiqi Wang
      Poster Slides Codes 🤗 HuggingFace Paper

      IEEE 24th International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (IEEE MMSP)
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        A no-reference image quality assessment method based on non-local features learned by a graph neural network (GNN). The proposed quality assessment framework is rooted in the view that the human visual system perceives image quality with long-dependency constructed among different regions, inspiring us to explore the non-local interactions in quality prediction.
        NL-Net

    2. Learning From Mixed Datasets: A Monotonic Image Quality Assessment Model
      Codes Paper

      Zhaopeng Feng, Keyang Zhang, Shuyue Jia, Baoliang Chen, Shiqi Wang
      IET Electronics Letters

    Topic 3 - Neuroscience

    1. GCNs-Net: A Graph Convolutional Neural Network Approach for Decoding Time-resolved EEG Motor Imagery Signals
      Shuyue Jia, Yimin Hou, Xiangmin Lun, Yan Shi, Yang Li, Rui Zeng, Jinglei Lv
      IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (IEEE T-NNLS)
      Slides Codes Paper

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        Traditional works classify EEG signals without considering the topological relationship among electrodes. Thus, a graph convolutional neural network is presented while cooperating with the functional topological relationship of electrodes.
        Project2

    2. Deep Feature Mining via Attention-based BiLSTM-GCN for Human Motor Imagery Recognition

      Yimin Hou, Shuyue Jia (Corresponding Author), Xiangmin Lun, Shu Zhang, Jinglei Lv
      Slides Codes Paper

      Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
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        This paper presents a novel deep learning approach designed toward both remarkably accurate and responsive motor imagery (MI) recognition based on scalp EEG. Bidirectional long short-term memory (BiLSTM) with the attention mechanism is employed, and the graph convolutional neural network (GCN) promotes the decoding performance by cooperating with the topological structure of features.
        Project3.1 Project3.2

    3. A Novel Approach of Decoding EEG Four-Class Motor Imagery Tasks via Scout ESI and CNN
      Codes Paper

      Yimin Hou, Lu Zhou, Shuyue Jia, Xiangmin Lun
      Journal of Neural Engineering
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        We presented a novel approach that could potentially improve the current stroke rehabilitation strategies by implementing a deep learning approach for an Electroencephalogram (EEG) based on MI Brain-Computer Interface System.
        • Constructed 6 convolutional layers, 2 max-pooling layers, and 3 FC layers CNNs for four-class motor imagery classification through TensorFlow, with 50% dropout (spatial dropout after every Conv layer and regular dropout for FC layers) – 11.44% accuracy improvement, batch normalization (BN) – 10.15% improvement, and Short-cut Connection – 1.76% improvement to prevent overfitting, and achieved SOTA results: 94.50% accuracy on scout R5, 94.54% at subject level, and 96% for left fist prediction.
        • Took charge of DNNs design, including methods comparisons, such as MLPs, CNNs, RNNs, and LSTMs, classification results calculations, and programming. 10 and 14 subjects’ data were utilized (19,320 and 27,048 samples in the experiments)
        • Benchmark Dataset: EEG Motor Movement/Imagery Dataset.
        EEG-CNN-1 EEG-CNN-2

    4. Attention-based Graph ResNet for Motor Intent Detection from Raw EEG Signals

      Shuyue Jia, Yimin Hou, Yan Shi, Yang Li
      Slides Codes Paper

      arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.13484

    Topic 4 - Intelligent Technologies

    1. PMU Measurements based Short-term Voltage Stability Assessment of Power Systems via Deep Transfer Learning

      Yang Li, Shitu Zhang, Yuanzheng Li, Jiting Cao, Shuyue Jia
      Paper

      IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (IEEE T-IM)

    2. Improving Performance: A Collaborative Strategy for the Multi-data Fusion of Electronic Nose and Hyperspectral to Track the Quality Difference of Rice

      Yan Shi, Hangcheng Yuan, Chenao Xiong, Qi Zhang, Shuyue Jia, Jingjing Liu, Hong Men
      Paper

      Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical

    Academic Services

    1. Journal Reviewer of
      IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (IEEE T-MM)
      IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (IEEE T-CSVT)
      IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (IEEE T-NNLS)
      IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (IEEE T-II)
      IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (IEEE JBHI)
      IEEE Open Journal of the Industrial Electronics Society (IEEE OJIES)
      IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society (IEEE OJCS)
      IEEE MultiMedia (MM)
      IEEE Sensors Journal
      Journal of Medical Internet Research
    2. Conference Reviewer of
      The International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2025
    3. Committee Member of Local Conference Committee, IEEE Boston Section
    4. Member of IEEE, ACM, ACL, AAAI, and AAAS

    Selected Awards

    1. CityU Top 5 Runner, City University of Hong Kong

      Athlete
      marathon-2021
    2. Outstanding Athlete, Northeast Electric Power University

      Athlete
      Elite Athlete
    3. 3000-meter Steeplechase, The 45th Northeast Electric Power University Games

      The 7th Place in college
      Steeplechase
    4. 2015 National High School Math League, China

      Second Prize
      Math
    5. The 32nd Chinese Physics Olympiad (CPhO), China

      Third Prize
      Physics

    International Marathon Athlete Activities

    1. 2024 Boston Half

      01:43:13 (906 / 6524)
      marathon2024
    2. 2021 Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon

      01:38:14 (318 / 6000)
      marathon2021
    3. 2017 National Marathon Championships (Jilin City Station)

      01:47:36 (148 / 5000)
      marathon2017