Welcome to The ALIEN Lab. We Build AI & Robotics for Life & Space. We are the world's first lab dedicated to defining Space AI. Life AI aims to improve health and longevity. Space AI empowers access to unlimited space and resources. Join us as a PhD student or RA to shape the future.

The ALIEN Lab

AI, Life, Interplanetary Exploration Nexus

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AI & Robotics
for Life

Advancing the health, longevity, and resilience of all life.

  • Medical Image Analysis
  • Medical Robotics
  • Human Genomics
  • Human Motion Analysis

AI & Robotics
for Space

Accessing boundless space, wealth, and resources.

  • Spacecraft Design & Control
  • Remote Sensing & Earth Observation
  • Autonomous Space Robotics
  • Astrobiology & Life Detection
  • Space AI

Projects

Project 1
Machine Vision

Topic:xxx

Funding/Customer: xxx

People: Ziyang Wang, xxx Li

Since: 2024

Output xxx

Project 2
Surgical AI

Topic:xxx

Funding/Customer: xxx

People: xxx

Since: xxx

Output: xxx

Project 3
Human Motion Analysis

Topic:xxx

Funding/Customer: xxx

People: Ziyang Wang, Anna Li

Since: 2024

Output: xxx

Project 4
Remote Sensing

Topic:xxx

Funding/Customer: xxx

People: Ziyang Wang, Anna Li

Since: 2024

Output: xxx

Project 5
Medical Image Analysis

Topic:xxx

Funding/Customer: xxx

People: Ziyang Wang, Anna Li

Since: 2024

Output: xxx

Project 6
Space AI

Topic:xxx

Funding/Customer: xxx

People: Ziyang Wang, Anna Li

Since: 2024

Output: xxx

Project 7
Space Robotics

Topic:xxx

Funding/Customer: xxx

People: Ziyang Wang, Anna Li

Since: 2024

Output: xxx

Project 8
Multi AI Agent System

Topic:xxx

Funding/Customer: xxx

People: Ziyang Wang, Anna Li

Since: 2024

Output: xxx

Project 9
Healthcare Robot

Topic:xxx

Funding/Customer: xxx

People: Ziyang Wang, Anna Li

Since: 2024

Output: xxx

Project 11
Genetic AI

Topic:xxx

Funding/Customer: xxx

People: Ziyang Wang, Anna Li

Since: 2024

Output: xxx

Project 10
Low-Level Vision

Topic:xxx

Funding/Customer: xxx

People: Ziyang Wang, Anna Li

Since: 2024

Output: xxx

Teams

Ziyang Wang
Ziyang Wang
Principal Investigator

Members

Member 1
Ming Lin
Incoming PhD
Member 1
Shao Wang
Incoming PhD
Member 1
Steven Wu
Research Assistant
Member 1
Cheng Zhang
Research Assistant
Member 1
Yi Zhou
Research Assistant
Member 1
Zi Wang
Research Assistant

Alumni

Alumni 1
Liu Yang
Now at Noitom 🇨🇳
Alumni 1
Zixuan Ni
Now at Part and Sum 🇺🇸
Alumni 1
Chengkuan Zhao
Now at RIT 🇺🇸
Alumni 1
Yufan Liu
Now at CMU 🇺🇸
Alumni 1
Guan Du
Now at Xunlei 🇨🇳
Alumni 1
Chen Yang
Now at NUS 🇸🇬
Alumni 1
Tianze Li
Now at Imperial College London 🇬🇧
Alumni 1
Mercy Su
Now at HKU 🇭🇰
Alumni 1
Haodong Zhang
Now at UC Irvine 🇺🇸
Alumni 1
Zihong Xu
Now at Peking Uni 🇨🇳
Alumni 1
Jiabao Li
Now at AHPU 🇨🇳
Alumni 1
Chao Ma
Now at XJU 🇨🇳
Alumni 1
Zhihao Chen
Now at BUPT 🇨🇳

News

Title: Sustainable, Safe, and Eco-Conscious AI for Medical Image Analysis
Journal: Frontiers – Frontiers in Radiology
Submission Deadline: 1 June 2026
Guest Editors: Ziyang Wang, Qianhui Men, Zeju Li, Fangyijie Wang
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Role: Reviewer
Journal: Engineering

Role: Editorial Review Board
Journal: International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems

Paper Title: Triple-Residual Enhanced Convolution- and Transformer-Based Hybrid Encoder-Decoder Network for Medical Image Segmentation
Journal: Neurocomputing

Paper Title: S4RoboFormer: Scribble-Supervised Segmentation for Surgical Robots via Augmented Consistency Training
Journal: IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics

Paper Title: Learning an Efficient Optimizer via Hybrid-Policy Sub Trajectory Balance
Conference: 28th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Paper Title: Tem2-KAN: Data-driven temporal temperature prediction via an improved Kolmogorov–Arnold network
Journal: ISA Transactions

Paper Title: Zig-RiR: Zigzag RWKV-in-RWKV for Efficient Medical Image Segmentation
Journal: IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
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Title: Fractional and Fractal Methods in Biomedical Imaging and Time Series Learning
Journal: MDPI – Fractal and Fractional
Submission Deadline: 31 August 2026
Guest Editors: Ziyang Wang, Jiabao Li, Chengjun Wang
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Title: Fostering Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence in Medical Imaging
Journal: Frontiers – Frontiers in Medicine
Submission Deadline: 20 December 2025
Guest Editors: Yanda Meng, Meng Wang, Ke Zou, Ziyang Wang
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Title: Multimodal Learning for Visual Intelligence: From Emerging Techniques to Real-World Applications
Journal: Elsevier – Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation
Submission Deadline: 30 November 2025
Guest Editors: Guanghui Yue, Weide Liu, Ziyang Wang, Hadi Amirpour, Zhedong Zheng, Wei Zhou
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Talk Title: AI for Healthcare
Location: University of Exeter, UK
Speaker: Ziyang Wang

Talk Title: AI for Healthcare
Location: University College Dublin, Ireland
Speaker: Ziyang Wang

Fellowship
Awarded By: Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Germany
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Fellowship
Awarded By: Outstanding Young Scholar Society UK
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Role: Reviewer
Journal: Nature Communications

Paper Title: Weakly Supervised Medical Image Segmentation through Dense Combinations of Dense Pseudo-Labels
Awarded By: MICCAI Data Engineering in Medical Imaging (DEMI) 2023
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Role: Secretary General
Society: Xi'an Jiaotong University United Kingdom Alumni Association

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