People · Lab co-lead
Zhibin Liao
Computer vision researcher with more than a decade in medical AI. Senior Lecturer in the School of Computer and Mathematical Sciences and Senior Research Fellow at the Australian Institute for Machine Learning, Adelaide University, and co-lead of AI Bench to Bedside, the Verjans Liao Lab.
PhD at the University of Adelaide with Professor Gustavo Carneiro as part of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Robotic Vision, then a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of British Columbia (2017–2019) on AI for cardiovascular ultrasound. AI lead for the NHMRC RAPIDx AI partnership project (2021–2023) with SA Health.
Technical co-lead on the group's computer vision output, covering hallucination detection in vision-language models, counterfactual explanation, concept bottlenecks and out-of-distribution segmentation. Co-inventor on two granted US patents. Winner of the 2020 ImageCLEF VQA-Med challenge. Teaches Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision at Adelaide.
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