Cheng Tang

I am currently a tenured Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Engineering at Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan, where I lead the Tang Laboratory as the principal investigator and supervise graduate students.

I received my M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in engineering from the University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan, in 2020 and 2022, respectively. From 2022 to 2023, I was an Assistant Professor at the Hirata Laboratory, supervised by Prof. Hirata, Graduate School of Engineering Tsukuri College, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan. In 2023, I joined Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, where I was an Assistant Professor (Tenured) with the Department of Advanced Information Technology, Graduate School and Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering. I conducted my research in the Laboratory for Image and Media Understanding, supervised by Prof. Shimada. In 2026, I joined Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan, where I currently hold my position.

My primary research interests include medical data mining, time series forecasting, computer vision, natural language processing, learning analytics, AI for drug design, explainable AI (XAI), and optimization.