About me

👋 I’m Ziquan Wei (魏梓泉 in Chinese). A researcher and PhD candidate supervised by Dr. Guorong Wu at UNC-Chapel Hill. I’m meanwhile the linux system administrator at ACMLab. Previously, I obtained a Master’s degree supervised by Prof. Shaoqun Zeng and a Bachelor’s degree supervised by Prof. Yang Yang.

I build digital twins of the human body: generative models of structure that deforms over time, built for one individual from routinely measured signals and able to be run forward under altered conditions. I work on 4D generation of deforming anatomy from sparse physiological conditioning, on non-rigid correspondence between deforming shapes, and on latent spaces whose samples stay on a matrix manifold by construction rather than by projection.

Research interests

  • Digital Twin & Generative Model
  • Brain Foundation Model
  • Medical Image Analysis
  • Geometric Deep Learning
  • Non-Rigid Correspondence

News

May 07, 2026 🚀 Started a summer internship as a Research Intern at egra.ai.
Apr 30, 2026 ⭐ One paper has been accepted by ICML: Marrying Generative Model of Healthcare Events with Digital Twin of Social Determinants of Health for Disease Reasoning.
Dec 31, 2025 ⭐ Two first-authored plus two co-authored journal papers has been accepted by the end of 2025: MedIA, Annual Review, Alz. & Dem., and IEEE TBME.
Nov 08, 2025 ⭐ One paper has been accepted by AAAI: LCM.
Sep 21, 2025 ⭐ One paper has been accepted by NeurIPS: BrainMoE.
May 12, 2025 ⭐ One paper has been early accepted by MICCAI (9%): Brain-Environment Cross-Attention (BECA)
Jan 22, 2025 ⭐ Our paper has been accepted by ICLR (Spotlight) [OpenReview]
Oct 10, 2024 ⭐ Our paper has been accepted by PNAS [arXiv]
Sep 25, 2024 ⭐ Two of our papers have been accepted by NeurIPS! [Poster PDF] [Workshop PDF]
Jun 17, 2024 ⭐ Two of our papers have been accepted by MICCAI! [PDFs]
May 01, 2024 ⭐ Our paper has been accepted by ICML! [PDF]

Education & Experience

2026 Research Intern at EGRA.ai, New York
2023 - Present PhD in Computer Science at UNC CS, Chapel Hill
2022 - 2023 Pre-doc Fellow Trainee at UNC ACMLab, Chapel Hill
2021 Research Intern at NTU, Singapore
2019 - 2022 Master in Biomedical Engineering at HUST, Wuhan
2015 - 2019 Bachelor in Computer Science at YNNU, Kunming

Selected publications

  1. ICML
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    Marrying Generative Model of Healthcare Events with Digital Twin of Social Determinants of Health for Disease Reasoning
    Ziquan Wei, Tingting Dan, and Guorong Wu
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.09771, 2026
  2. MedIA
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    NeuroDetour: A Neural Pathway Transformer for Uncovering Structural-Functional Coupling Mechanisms in Human Connectome
    Ziquan Wei, Tingting Dan, Jiaqi Ding, Paul J Laurienti, and 1 more author
    Medical Image Analysis, 2026
  3. AR BME
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    Teravoxel Microscopy Image Analysis for Neurological Diseases
    Ziquan Wei, and Guorong Wu
    Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering, 2026
  4. AAAI
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    Large Connectome Model: An fMRI Foundation Model of Brain Connectomes Empowered by Brain-Environment Interaction in Multitask Learning Landscape
    Ziquan Wei, Tingting Dan, and Guorong Wu
    In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2026
  5. NeurIPS
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    BrainMoE: Cognition Joint Embedding via Mixture-of-Expert Towards Robust Brain Foundation Model
    Ziquan Wei, Tingting Dan, Tianlong Chen, and Guorong Wu
    In The Thirty-ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 2025
  6. MICCAI
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    Brain-Environment Cross-Attention (BECA) Meta-Matching: A New Perspective of Brain Connectome Zero-Shot Learning
    Ziquan Wei, Tingting Dan, and Guorong Wu
    In proceedings of Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2025, Sep 2025
  7. NeurIPS
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    NeuroPath: A Neural Pathway Transformer for Joining the Dots of Human Connectomes
    Ziquan Wei, Tingting Dan, Jiaqi Ding, and Guorong Wu
    In The Thirty-eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Sep 2024
  8. NeurIPSW
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    Non-local Exchange: Introduce Non-locality via Graph Re-wiring to Graph Neural Networks
    Ziquan Wei, and Guorong Wu
    In NeurIPS 2024 Workshop on Behavioral Machine Learning, Sep 2024
  9. MICCAI
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    Representing Functional Connectivity with Structural Detour: A New Perspective to Decipher Structure-Function Coupling Mechanism
    Ziquan Wei, Tingting Dan, Jiaqi Ding, Paul Laurienti, and 1 more author
    In proceedings of Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2024, Oct 2024
  10. MICCAI
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    A General Stitching Solution for Whole-Brain 3D Nuclei Instance Segmentation from Microscopy Images
    Ziquan Wei, Tingting Dan, Jiaqi Ding, Mustafa Dere, and 1 more author
    In International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (Early accept – 14%), Oct 2023
  11. ICCVW
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    Continuous emotion recognition with audio-visual leader-follower attentive fusion
    Su Zhang*, Yi Ding*Ziquan Wei*, and Cuntai Guan
    In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops, Oct 2021
  12. PR
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    Non-rigid point set registration using dual-feature finite mixture model and global-local structural preservation
    Su Zhang, Kun Yang, Yang Yang, Yi Luo, and 1 more author
    Pattern Recognition, Oct 2018
  13. TIP
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    Non-rigid image registration with dynamic Gaussian component density and space curvature preservation
    Zhuoqian Yang, Yang Yang, Kun Yang, and Ziquan Wei
    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Oct 2018
  14. RS
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    A small UAV based multi-temporal image registration for dynamic agricultural terrace monitoring
    Ziquan Wei, Yifeng Han, Mengya Li, Kun Yang, and 3 more authors
    Remote Sensing, Oct 2017

Honors & Services

  • UNC grad school transportation grant
  • HUST outstanding graduation
  • Reviewer (conferences): MICCAI, NeurIPS, AISTATS, ICLR, ICML, AAAI.
  • Reviewer (journals): Pattern Recognition, IEEE TMI, NeuroImage.
  • Editorial board: Scientific Reports (Editor of Distinction Award 2025).