Shun Liu

Ph.D. Student

I'm a CS Ph.D. student at Virginia Commonwealth University, co-advised by Prof. Hongsheng Zhou and Prof. Nan Xi. Prior to that, I obtained the B.E. in CS from SHUFE. During my undergraduate study, I had the great opportunity to work with Prof. David Doermann and Dr. Xuan Gong at SUNY-Buffalo, as well as Prof. Soroush Vosoughi at Dartmouth College.

My research lies at the intersection of multimodal learning and cybersecurity. My goal is to develop interpretable, reliable and privacy‑preserving multimodal AI systems for high‑stakes real‑world scenarios, such as clinical workflows.

Shun Liu

News

  • Sep. 2026 📝 One paper working on Privacy-Preserving Visual Generation submitted to ICLR'27!
  • Sep. 2026 🎓 Started my Ph.D. journey at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA!
  • Jul. 2026 📝 One paper working on Interpretable Vision-Language Reasoning submitted to AAAI'27!
  • Apr. 2026 📝 New preprint on open‑ended surgical segmentation released on arXiv!
  • Jun. 2025 🎓 Completed Bachelor’s degree in Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (SHUFE)!
  • Nov. 2024 📝 One paper accepted at CIKM 2024!

Selected Publications

AR-ERIS Framework
arXiv, 2026

We introduce ReferEndoscopy, the first large-scale instruction-based endoscopic RIS benchmark, and propose the AR-ERIS framework for open-vocabulary compositional referring segmentation, w.r.t. the frequency properties of scene objects. Our method achieves state-of-the-art performance on both simulated and real-world endoscopic data.

MEDFuse Framework
Thao Minh Nguyen Phan, Cong-Tinh Dao, Chenwei Wu, Jian-Zhe Wang, Shun Liu, Jun-En Ding, David Restrepo, Feng Liu, Fang-Ming Hung, Wen-Chih Peng
CIKM, 2024

We propose MEDFuse, a multimodal EHR fusion framework integrating masked lab-test modeling and fine-tuned LLMs to unify structured lab results and unstructured clinical notes. Evaluated on MIMIC-III and internal FEMH datasets, MEDFuse reaches over 90% F1 score on 10-disease multi-label classification for reliable clinical prediction.

Experiences

Research Intern & Research Engineer Dec. 2024 - Apr. 2026
ExcitAI | Shanghai, China
Topics: 3DGS For Scene Reconstruction
Research Intern Mar. 2024 - Jun. 2024
Cardinal Operations | Shanghai, China
Topics: LLM for High-Dimensional Tabular Feature Engineering
Research Assistant Mar. 2024 - Dec. 2024
University at Buffalo | New York, United States
Topics: Biomedical Vision Foundation Models
Research Assistant Oct. 2023 - Jan. 2024
Dartmouth College | New Hampshire, United States
Topics: LLM Reliability, Fairness

Honors and Awards

  • 🏆 Graduate Research Assistantship, Virginia Commonwealth University (Aug. 2026 - Present)