SMILE Lab

Statistics & MachIne LEarning

We develop novel and explainable machine learning mechanisms to enhance real-world AI applications, interpret complex data, and support scientific discovery while ensuring data privacy and security.

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Asst Prof. MA Jiawei Phoenix

Bio: Phoenix Jiawei MA is a tenure-track Assistant Professor City University of Hong Kong. He obtained his Ph.D. degree at Columbia University in the City of New York, working with Prof. Shih-Fu Chang. He gained internship at FAIR Labs @ Meta AI, Google Research, Amazon Alexa AI (currently AGI Team), and Nokia Bell Labs. His primary research directions are Computer Vision, Multi-Modal, and Statistical Machine Learning.

Latest News

Feb. 2026
We will organize a workshop in CVPR 2026: ActiVis.
Jan. 2026
One paper got accepted by International Journal of Computer Vision.
Sep. 2024
I will serve as an Area Chair for CVPR 2025.

Selected Publications

F2-Assist: Multi-Phase Fetal Growth Forecast and Report Generation from Ultrasound Examination

Bin Pu#, Xusheng Liang*#, Xinpeng Ding, Jinlin Wu, Zhen Lei, Shengli Li, Kenli Li, Jiawei Ma

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026

Multimodal Causality-Driven Representation Learning for Generalizable Medical Image Segmentation

Xusheng Liang*, Lihua Zhou, Nianxin Li, Miao Xu, Ziyang Song, Dong Yi, Jinlin Wu, Jiawei Ma, Hongbin Liu, Zhen Lei, Jiebo Luo.

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026

Multi-Modal Few-Shot Object Detection with Meta-Learning-Based Cross-Modal Prompting

Guangxing Han, Long Chen, Jiawei Ma, Shiyuan Huang, Rama Chellappa, and Shih-Fu Chang

International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 2026

Explaining Domain Shifts in Language: Concept erasing for Interpretable Image Classification

Zequn Zeng, Yudi Su, Jianqiao Sun, Tiansheng Wen, Hao Zhang, Zhengjue Wang, Bo Chen, Hongwei Liu, Jiawei Ma

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025