Freddy Jiang

Cardiac Shape Analysis with Nouveau Variational Autoencoder

2024. Master's dissertation. Supervised by Prof. Loïc Le Folgoc, Prof. Elsa Angelini. Winton Capital Applied Computing MSc Prize issued by Department of Computing, ICL.

paper / code / models will be made available mid-2025

I demonstrated that Nouveau VAE, a state-of-the-art hierarchical non-autoregressive generative framework, can learn from clinically annotated cardiac segmentation masks to encode anatomic shapes efficiently. As part of this investigation, I proposed a novel metric, the Fréchet ResNet Distance with SimCLR, for measuring the similarity between synthetic and real cardiac masks. I used the learned embeddings as an anatomical constraint to improve U-Net segmentation performance, which also generalises well in domain adaptation.

2023. Bachelor's dissertation. Supervised by Prof. Ben Glocker.

I explored SimCLR, a state-of-the-art self-supervised learning framework, for classifying a wide range of medical imaging modalities, including colon pathology, dermatology, blood cells and retina fundus. I proposed a novel augmentation sequence and other modifications that yielded up to 30.6% improvement in accuracy over baseline supervised methods.

2024. ICL NLP coursework. Group of 2.

We devloped an ensemble model of finetuned RoBERTa and DistilBERT models to detect Patronising and Condescending Language in text (subtask 1), achieving strong performance and attaining full marks in the coursework.

Create Your Own Adventure - Automated Gamebook Generation

2022. ICL group project. Distinguished project recognised by Department of Computing, ICL.

Create Your Own Adventure is a web application that offers an extensive set of tools for authors to easily create, fully customise and print their gamebooks.

2021. Internship project at DoC EdTech, ICL.

The Peer Assessment web application is used by the Department of Computing at Imperial College. It allows team members to evaluate each other's contributions and provide anonymous feedback. It provides staff with ability to view and moderate submissions, as well as automatically generate and persist form templates and reports.

2021. Volunteer work.

I designed and developed the official site for the Department of Computing's Educational Technology team at Imperial College London.

2023. Hobby project.

A lightweight Python application that allows you to render highly customisable bar chart animations from CSV files into HD videos.

2020. Game jam submission.

Duel! is a local 2-player platformer shooter game where players fight to the death on a small, floating island. The game features weapons and a rewind mechanic to surprise your opponent. Developed in 1 week for Brackeys Game Jam 2020.2.

2020. Game jam submission.

Ten Minutes of Existence is a single-player puzzle adventure game where you play as an ephemeral entity and explore the underwater world. The goal is to collect 5 gems while avoiding obstacles and other entities, to unlock a passage to the final destination before time runs out. Developed in 1 month for GameDev.tv Community Jam.