I am an undergraduate student majoring in Computer Science and Technology at the College of Computer Science, Sichuan University, and I expect to receive my B.S. degree in June 2026.

I have worked with Yuhao Yi and Mingjie Tang at Sichuan University, as well as Mert Sabuncu and Ruining Deng at Cornell University.

I am currently applying to direct-entry PhD programs and looking for potential advisors and research opportunities. I am always happy to connect with researchers who share similar interests or are interested in possible collaborations.

My current research interests include AI for healthcare, medical image analysis, and AI safety.

📝 Publications

🔬 AI for Healthcare

SPIE 2026
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M3‑GloDets: multi-region and multi-scale analysis of fine‑grained diseased glomerular detection
Tianyu Shi, Xinzi He, Hongjin Fang, Kenji Ikemura, Mert R. Sabuncu, Yihe Yang, Ruining Deng

  • We investigate multi-region and multi-scale strategies for fine-grained diseased glomerular detection in whole-slide renal pathology images.
  • Our study systematically evaluates the impact of imaging magnification, patch size, and model design on multi-class glomerular analysis.
Lab Invest 2026
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AI-Based Identification and Quantification of Global Glomerulosclerosis in Nephrectomy Specimens: Accuracy and Its Predictive Value
Ruining Deng, Tianyu Shi, Steven Salvatore, Surya Seshan, Brian Robinson, Mert Sabuncu, Yihe Yang

  • We investigate AI-based quantification of global glomerulosclerosis from whole-slide renal pathology images using automated segmentation models.
  • Our study compares AI-derived and pathologist-estimated glomerulosclerosis measurements and explores their associations with longitudinal renal function decline.

🛡️ AI Safety

arXiv 2025
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CloneShield: A Framework for Universal Perturbation Against Zero-Shot Voice Cloning
Renyuan Li, Zhibo Liang, Haichuan Zhang, Tianyu Shi, Zhiyuan Cheng, Jia Shi, Carl Yang, Mingjie Tang

Project

  • We introduce CloneShield, a universal defense framework against zero-shot voice cloning.
  • By generating imperceptible adversarial perturbations in the audio domain, our method protects speaker identity while maintaining natural audio quality, and effectively disrupts cloned speech generation across multiple state-of-the-art TTS systems.

🎖 Honors and Awards

  • 2023.05 Second Prize in the 21st Sichuan University College Students’ Programming Competition
  • 2023.11 Second-Class Individual Scholarship (Top 20%)
  • 2024.10 University-level Outstanding Student in SCU (Top 10%)
  • 2024.11 First-Class Individual Scholarship (Top 10%)
  • 2025.08 Third Prize in the Provincial College Student AIGC Applications Challenge

📖 Educations

  • 2022.09 - 2026.06, Undergraduate, College of Computer Science, Sichuan Univeristy, Chengdu.

💻 Internships

  • 2023.09 - 2024.01, Chengdu Yalixin Technology Co., Ltd., Chengdu.