Lin Tian

Lin Tian (田琳) is an incoming Assistant Professor at Hong Kong Baptist University in August 2026. She is currently a Research Fellow at the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Harvard Medical School & Massachusetts General Hospital, working with Professor Juan Eugenio Iglesias and Professor Matthew Rosen. She obtained her PhD in Computer Science from UNC Chapel Hill under the supervision of Professor Marc Niethammer. Before attending UNC, she earned her M.S. from the University of Southern California (USC) and B.S. from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST). Her research has been published in CVPR, ECCV, and MICCAI. She serves as an Area Chair for MICCAI 2025/2026 and is a recipient of the MICCAI Travel Award, the NSF Travel Award for CVPR Doctoral Consortium 2025, and the Rising Stars in EECS by MIT and BU. During her PhD, she worked as a research scientist intern at ByteDance AI, Alibaba DAMO, and Alphabet X (formerly Google X).

My research focuses on Spatial Intelligence for Healthcare, building precise, generalizable, and trustworthy AI systems that preceive, understand, and reason about 3D spatiotemporal changes in anatomy.

I am currently particularly interested in the following research directions:

• Deformation inference from incomplete and heterogeneous observations
• Simulation and digital twins for modeling and predicting anatomical changes
• Spatial reasoning and decision-making based on spatiotemporal anatomical changes

Openings: I am looking for PhD/interns/visiting students in Fall 2026 and Spring 2027. Students with backgrounds in 3D computer vision, deep learning, medical image analysis, computer graphics, applied mathematics, or physics-based simulation are encouraged to apply. If you are interested, please email me with your CV, transcript, and a brief description of your research interests.