Gongbo Liang


Biography

Dr. Gongbo "Tony" Liang earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science degree from the University of Kentucky under the supervision of Dr. Nathan Jacobs. Before joining TAMUSA, Dr. Liang was an Assitant Professor at Eastern Kentucky University (EKU) and the Director of the EKU Gaming Institute.

Dr. Liang has focused on computer vision and deep neural network research since 2014. He is excited about modern deep neural networks to solve previously unsolvable domain-specific challenges while tackling the fundamental issues of deep neural networks. He has projects in several domains, including medical imaging, astrophysics and astronomy, and natural language processing. He is also interested in neural network adversarial attack and defense, as well as adopting neural networks for cybersecurity. Dr. Liang has over 30 peer-reviewed publications and two awarding abstracts. He also has one AI algorithm for breast cancer diagnosis licensed to the industry.  [Google Scholar] [DBLP] [ORCID] [Personal Site

Selected Publications

Journal Articles

  • Liang, G, Atoum, M, Xing, X, & Alsmadi, I (2023). Benchmark Assessment for the DeepSpeed Acceleration Library on Image Classification. Cluster Computing. In press. (Impact Factor: 4.4)
  • Liu, L., Chang, J., Liang, G., & Xiong, S. (2023). Simulated Quantum Mechanics-Based Joint Learning Network for Stroke Lesion Segmentation and TICI Grading. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 27(7), 3372-3383. (Impact Factor: 7.021)
  • Liu, L., Zhang, P., Liang, G., Xiong, S., Wang, J., & Zheng, G. (2023). A Spatiotemporal Correlation Deep Learning Network for Brain Penumbra Disease. Neurocomputing, 520(1), 274-283. (Impact Factor: 5.779)
  • Lin, S. C., Su, Y., Liang, G., Zhang, Y., Jacobs, N., & Zhang, Y. (2022). Estimating Cluster Masses from SDSS Multi-band Images with Transfer Learning. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 512(3), 3885-3894. (Impact Factor: 5.235)
  • Liang, G., Greenwell, C., Zhang, Y., Xing, X., Wang, X., Kavuluru, R., & Jacobs, N. (2021). Contrastive Cross-Modal Pre-training: A General Strategy for Small Sample Medical Imaging. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 26(4), 1640-1649. (Impact Factor: 7.021)
  • Su, Y., Zhang, Y., Liang, G., ZuHone, J. A., Barnes, D. J., Jacobs, N. B., ... & Jones, C. (2020). A Deep Learning View of the Census of Galaxy Clusters in Illustrating. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 498(4), 5620-5628. (Impact Factor: 5.235)
  • Hammond, T. C., Xing, X., Wang, C., Ma, D., Nho, K., Crane, P. K., Liang, G., ... & Lin, A. L. (2020). β-amyloid and Tau Drive Early Alzheimer’s Disease Decline while Glucose Hypometabolism Drives Late Decline. Communications biology, 3(1), 1-13. (Impact Factor: 6.268)
  • Wang, X., Liang, G., Zhang, Y., Blanton, H., Bessinger, Z., & Jacobs, N. (2020). Inconsistent Performance of Deep Learning Models on Mammogram Classification. Journal of the American College of Radiology, 17(6), 796-803. (Impact Factor: 5.532)
  • Mihail, R. P., Liang, G., & Jacobs, N. (2019). Automatic Hand Skeletal Shape Estimation from Radiographs. IEEE transactions on nanobioscience, 18(3), 296-305. (Impact Factor: 3.206)
  • Liang, G., Zhang, J., Brooks, M. A., Howard, J., & Chen, J. (2017). Radiomic Features of Lung Cancer and Their Dependency on CT Image Acquisition Parameters. Medical Physics, 44, 3024. (Impact Factor: 4.506)

Conference Papers

  • Zhang, Y., Liang, G., & Jacobs, N. (2021, November). Dynamic Feature Alignment for Semi-Supervised Domain Adaptation. The 32nd British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC). Acceptance Rate: 26.19% [434/1657]. H5-Index: 66.
  • Liang, G., Zhang, Y., Wang, X., & Jacobs, N. (2020, September). Improved Trainable Calibration Method for Neural Networks on Medical Imaging Classification. The 31st British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC). Acceptance Rate: 21.01% [195/928]. H5-Index: 68.
  • Liang, G., Li, Q., & Kang, X. (2016, September). Pedestrian Detection via a Leg-driven Physiology Framework. In 2016 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) (pp. 2926-2930). IEEE. H5-Index: 60.

Student Papers

  • Liang, G., Guerrero, J., Zheng, F., & Alsmadi, I. (2023). Enhancing Neural Text Detector Robustness with μAttacking and RR-Training. Electronics, 12(8), 1948. (Impact Factor: 2.9)
  • Xing, E.,  Liu, L., Xing, X., Qu, Y., Jacobs, N., & Liang, G. (2022, August). Neural Network Decision-Making Criteria Consistency Analysis via Inputs Sensitivity. The 26th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR). IEEE. H5-Index: 43.
  • Qu, Y., Yan, D., Xing, E., Zheng, F., Zhang, J., Liu, L., & Liang, G. (2022, July). Beware the Black-Box of Medical Image Generation: an Uncertainty Analysis by the Learned Feature Space. In 2022 44th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC) (pp. 3849-3853). IEEE. H5-Index: 39.
  • Ying, Q., Xing, X., Liu, L., Lin, A. L., Jacobs, N., & Liang, G. (2021, November). Multi-modal Data Analysis for Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnosis: An Ensemble Model Using Imagery and Genetic Features. In 2021 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC) (pp. 3586-3591). IEEE. H5-Index: 39.

Awards

  • 2023   Outstanding Faculty Award for Research, College of Arts and Sciences, Texas A&M University-San Antonio
  • 2022   Third Place Best Abstract, ACM Mid-Southeast (ACM-MidSE) Conference
  • 2020   Outstanding Ph.D. Student in Computer Science, University of Kentucky
  • 2019   Second Place Best Poster, Markey Cancer Center Research Day
  • 2016   Best Graduate Student Paper Award, WKU Student Research Conference
  • 2012   Robert J. Wurster Scholarship, Western Kentucky University

 

Grants

  • Solar Activity and Space Weather
    • PI: A. Gordon Emslie
    • Co-I: Ali Oguz Er, Ivan Novikov, Gongbo Liang
    • Sponsor: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA Kentucky EPSCoR)
    • Total Award: $750,000.00
    • Duration: 07/01/2022–06/30/2025  
  • Unsupervised Deep Learning Denoising in CT Imaging of Obese Patients
    • PI: Jie Zhang
    • Co-PI: Gongbo Liang
    • Co-I: Halemane Ganesh, James Lee
    • Consultant: Ge Wang
    • Sponsor: University of Kentucky CCTS and AIM
    • Total Award: $24,285.00
    • Duration:  07/01/2022-06/30/2023

 

Gongbo Liang

College Of Arts And Sciences

Department of Computational, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences


Assistant Professor of Computer Science

STEM 211G
210-784-2373
gliang@tamusa.edu
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Course Teachings

SubjectNumberSectionDescriptionTermSyllabi
CSCI 1437 601 Programming Fundamentals II Spring 2024 No Syllabus Attached
CSCI 3362 001 Operating Systems Spring 2024 No Syllabus Attached
CSCI 5393 001 Topics in Computer Science Spring 2024 No Syllabus Attached
CSCI 5337 001 Applications Programming Spring 2024 No Syllabus Attached