About Me

Hello! I am Pengyang Yu, a PhD student in the School of Computer Science at University College Dublin.

My research focuses on auditing and monitoring the reliability and fairness of medical foundation models across clinical settings.

For academic inquiries, please contact me at pengyang.yu@ucdconnect.ie.

Research Highlights

01

Reliability across clinical settings

Auditing medical foundation and vision-language models under domain shift, with attention to localized reliability, calibration, and high-confidence errors.

02

Fairness in medical AI

Studying dual fairness in federated medical imaging: fairness across collaborating institutions and fairness across patient groups.

03

Context-aware deployment

Developing monitoring, calibration, and fair deferral strategies that help clarify when, where, and for whom medical AI can be trusted.

Education

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University College Dublin

PhD Student · School of Computer Science

2025.09 – Present

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Dublin City University

MSc in Artificial Intelligence

2024.09 – 2025.09

Selected Publications

Published · 2026-07-05

Fairness in federated medical imaging: a systematic review through the dual fairness lens

Artificial Intelligence Review · 2026 · Journal article

Pengyang Yu, Zhongping Dong, Sahraoui Dhelim, Chun-Mei Feng, and M. Tahar Kechadi.

DOI: 10.1007/s10462-026-11632-4

Published · 2025-12-25

MedLiteNet: Lightweight Hybrid Medical Image Segmentation Model for the Medical Internet of Things (MIoT)

IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Sensors · 2026 · 3:78–89 · Published 2025-12-25

Pengyang Yu, Haoquan Wang, Gerard Marks, Tahar Kechadi, Laurence T. Yang, Sahraoui Dhelim, and Nyothiri Aung.

DOI: 10.1109/JSAS.2025.3648685