Room 701, No. 3 Sassoon Rd, Hong Kong
Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, HKUMed
Research Assistant Professor (HKU)
Principle Scientist of CONOVA
Manager of CONOVA (Beijing)
Co-director of Digital Health Laboratory
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Dr.Nan Meng
Nan Meng received his Ph.D. degree in 2020 in Electric and Electronic Engineering from The University of Hong Kong. At HKU, he conducted research for image-based cancer diagnosis and released the first large-scale dataset for human somatic bright-field cells. He also conducted research for Light Field Reconstruction in the Imaging Systems Laboratory, supervised by Prof. Edmund Y. Lam. During his PhD, he consulted for an AI company in the areas of multi-view imaging systems and HKU Medicine School about medical image processing and analysis. After graduation, Dr. Meng joined the Digital Health Laboratory in HKU as a postdoc for over 2 years to conduct research in intelligent orthopaedics. At present, he is a research assistant professor.
His research interests include computational optics and imag-ing, from algorithms to applications and medical image analysis. His research direction includes light-field reconstruction, view synthesis, depth estimation and medical imaging.

"I am currently a senior researcher and engineer in HKU O&T Department, focusing on intelligent solutions for bone disease using deep learning techniques. I am mainly leading two medical projects, i.e., AlignPro and MSKAlign Wukong. We always welcome students, researchers, and engineers from different regions worldwide who have an interest in artificial intelligence techniques (deep learning, machine learning, etc) for real medical and clinical problems. We continue to recruit multiple research assistants and algorithm scientists."
Publication
■ Materials Science
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■Clinical
■Computer Science
■Bioinformatics





Fundings & Grants
2025/01 - 2027/12
National Natural Science Foundation of China Young Scientists Fund (No. 8240073987), 300,000 RMB, Principal Investigator.
2024/06 - 2026/05
Seed Fund for Basic Research for New Staff, 150,000 HKD, Principal Investigator, (on-going)
2024/06 - 2027/06
Seed Fund for Research Impact Fund, No. 2307102464, 1000,000 HKD, Co-Investigator, (on-going)
2023/11 - 2026/01
Department Seed Fund, 200,000 HKD, Principal Investigator, (on-going)
2025/01 - 2027/01
Department Seed Fund, 100,000 HKD, Principal Investigator, (on-going)
Additional
IEEE SPS SigMA Program (2025-26)
I serve as a registered mentor in the IEEE Signal Processing Society’s Signal Processing Mentorship Academy (SigMA) program. This global initiative pairs early-career researchers (undergraduate or graduate students) with established experts in signal processing for a 9-month collaborative research project, culminating in a joint publication and presentation at ICASSP.
The program is designed to foster international academic exchange, hands-on research training, and long-term mentorship. If you are a motivated student interested in AI/ML for biomedical signal and image processing, feel free to reach out regarding potential collaborations under the SigMA framework.
More info: SigMA Program Overview
Biomedical, Medical, Clinical
IEEE JBHI (2019-2024), IEEE TMI (2021), IEEE TMRB (2025), PLOS ONE (2023-2024), Scientific Report (2023-2025),
The Bone & Joint Journal (2025)
ISBI (2023-2024), EMBC (2023-2024), Big Data Mining and Analytics (2025)
Lancet eClinicalMedicine (2024)
JMIR (2025)
Computer Vision
IEEE T-PAMI (2024-2025), IEEE TIP (2019-2024), IEEE TCI (2019-2025), IEEE TNNLS (2023), IEEE TMM (2023,2025), IEEE TCSVT (2023),
IEEE Signal Processing Letters (2025)
ACM TOMM (2024-2025)
Robotics
IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (2024)
Computer Graphics
Pacific Graphics (2023)
Optics
OSA JOSA A (2021), Optics and Lasers in Engineering (2024)
Others
Springer SIVP (2021-2023), Springer TVCJ (2023), Computers in Biology and Medicine (2024)
Opportunities
Digital Health Laboratory (under O&T Dept, HKU) welcomes applications from high potential candidates with academic excellence, research ability and potential, and good communication, and interpersonal abilities for multiple research and engineering positions, including Research Assistant, Mphil, PhD and PostDoc Fellow. We are also looking for Algorithm Researchers, Algorithm Engineers, Data Scientists, and Technicians working in either Mainland (Beijing, Shenzhen) or Hong Kong.
If you have interest, please fill in the following information with your Résumé/CV (link) and apply. We will contact you!