I am currently a PhD student at the Department of Computer Science at Stony Brook University, advised by Prof. Chao Chen. I am also working closely with Dr. Xiaoling Hu and Dr. Shahira Abousamra.
Before that, I obtained my master and bachelor degrees from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Sichuan University, respectively.
Research Interests: I am broadly interested in computational pathology, spatial transcriptomics, vision-language model and multi-modal representation learning.
🔥 News
- 2026.02: 🎉🎉 A paper was accepted by CVPR 2026.
📝 Publications

- Act Like a Pathologist: Tissue-Aware Whole Slide Image Reasoning,
Wentao Huang, Weimin Lyu, Peiliang Lou, Qingqiao Hu, Xiaoling Hu, Shahira Abousamra, Wenchao Han, Ruifeng Guo, Jiawei Zhou, Chao Chen, Chen Wang
The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026

- Merge: multi-faceted hierarchical graph-based gnn for gene expression prediction from whole slide histopathology images,
Aniruddha Ganguly, Debolina Chatterjee, Wentao Huang, Jie Zhang, Alisa Yurovsky, Travis Steele Johnson, Chao Chen
The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025 | Code

- Hard negative sample mining for whole slide image classification,
Wentao Huang, Xiaoling Hu, Shahira Abousamra, Prateek Prasanna, Chao Chen
International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2024 | Code
📖 Educations
- 2022.08 - Present, PhD in Computer Science, Stony Brook University.
- 2018.09 - 2021.06, Master in Computer Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
- 2014.09 - 2018.06, Bachelor in Telecomunication Engineering, Sichuan University.
💻 Internships
- 2025.05 - 2025.11, Research Intern, Mayo Clinic, Mentor: Dr. Chen Wang, MN, USA.