Kaifeng (Calvin) Pang

Kaifeng (Calvin) Pang

PhD Student at UCLA

University of California, Los Angeles

About me

I am a second-year PhD candidate in the Department of Radiological Sciences and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UCLA, where I am privileged to be co-advised by Prof. Kyung Sung and Prof. Robert Candler. Prior to joining UCLA, I received my Bachelor’s degree in Electronic Science and Engineering from Nanjing University in 2022, advised by Prof. Yang Li. During my undergraduate studies, I was also fortunate to work with Prof. Yuankai Huo at Vanderbilt University.

I am a member of the Sung Lab within MRRL Labs, collaborating with Prof. Kai Zhao and Dr. Qi Miao. I also engage in collaborative research with Prof. Wayne Brisbane’s group. My current research focuses on data-driven medical image enhancement, foundation models, and vision-language models. I was an Oncology - Deep Learning Researcher Intern at Bristol Myers Squibb during 2025 summer.

Outside of academia, I enjoy soccer, billiards, and bouldering. I am a fan of Arsenal and Miami Heat. I am also a long-time player of EA Sports FC.

🙌 Feel free to drop me an email if you are interested in my research projects or potential collaboration.

💻 I will be joining Samsung Research America (SRA) this summer as a Research Intern.



Modestly, Devoutly, Boldly.

Interests
  • Medical Imaging
  • Generative Models
  • Foundation Models
  • Vision-language Models
Education
  • Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2024-Now

    University of California, Los Angeles

  • M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2022-2024

    University of California, Los Angeles

  • B.Eng. in Electronic Science and Engineering, 2018-2022

    Nanjing University

Recent Posts

To record my thoughts and life (sometimes in Chinese)

Publications

  • Pang, Kaifeng, Qi Miao, Alex Ling Yu Hung, Changsuk Oh, Kai Zhao, Qiudi He, Marcel Dominik Nickel, Fei Han, and Kyunghyun Sung. “AICM: An Anatomical-Prior Integrated Conditional Consistency Model for Self-Supervised MRI Through-Plane Super-Resolution.” In 2026 IEEE 23rd International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), pp. 1-5. IEEE, 2026. (oral) [paper] [code]

  • Pang, Kaifeng, Qi Miao, Alex Ling Yu Hung, Kai Zhao, Eunsun Oh, Raymi Ramirez, Wayne Brisbane and Kyunghyun Sung. “MPR-Diff: a Self-Supervised Diffusion Model for Multi-Planar Reformation in Prostate Micro-Ultrasound Imaging.” In 2025 IEEE 22nd International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), pp. 1-5. IEEE, 2025. [paper] [code] [poster]

  • Pang, Kaifeng, Kai Zhao, Alex Ling Yu Hung, Haoxin Zheng, Ran Yan, and Kyunghyun Sung. “NExpR: Neural Explicit Representation for fast arbitrary-scale medical image super-resolution.” Computers in Biology and Medicine 184 (2025): 109354. [paper] [code]

  • Pang, Kaifeng, Zuhayr Asad, Shilin Zhao, and Yuankai Huo. “MAg: a simple learning-based patient-level aggregation method for detecting microsatellite instability from whole-slide images.” In 2022 IEEE 19th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), pp. 1-4. IEEE, 2022. (oral) [paper] [code] [presentation]

  • Li, Junying, Qingyang Hou, Kaifeng Pang, Qi Miao, Alex Ling Yu Hung, Elif Aygun, Shu-Fu Shih, Qing Dai, Holden H. Wu, and Kyunghyun Sung. “CoDe: A Self-Supervised Consistency Model Framework for MRI Denoising.” In 2026 IEEE 23rd International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), pp. 1-5. IEEE, 2026. (oral) [paper] (co-first-author and corresponding author)

  • Zhao, Kai, Alex Ling Yu Hung, Kaifeng Pang, Parsa Hajipour, Holden Wu, Steve Raman, and Kyunghyun Sung. “PCa-Mamba: Spatiotemporal state space models for prostate cancer detection in multi-parametric MRI.” Medical image analysis (2026): 104033. [paper]

  • Zhao, Kai, Kaifeng Pang, Alex Ling Yu Hung, Haoxin Zheng, Ran Yan, and Kyunghyun Sung. “MRI Super-Resolution with Partial Diffusion Models.” IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (2024). [paper]

  • Zhao, Kai, Kaifeng Pang, Alex LingYu Hung, Haoxin Zheng, Ran Yan, and Kyunghyun Sung. “A Deep Learning-Based Framework for Highly Accelerated Prostate MR Dispersion Imaging.” Cancers 16, no. 17 (2024): 2983. [paper]

  • Hung, Alex Ling Yu, Haoxin Zheng, Kai Zhao, Kaifeng Pang, Demetri Terzopoulos, and Kyunghyun Sung. “Cross-Slice Attention and Evidential Critical Loss for Uncertainty-Aware Prostate Cancer Detection.” In International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, pp. 113-123. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. [paper]

  • Hung, Alex Ling Yu, Haoxin Zheng, Kai Zhao, Xiaoxi Du, Kaifeng Pang, Qi Miao, Steven S. Raman, Demetri Terzopoulos, and Kyunghyun Sung. “CSAM: A 2.5 D Cross-Slice Attention Module for Anisotropic Volumetric Medical Image Segmentation.” In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, pp. 5923-5932. 2024. [paper]

Please refer to my Google Scholar page for the full list.