Hoifung Poon

General Manager, Health Futures, Microsoft

Joined

November 2018

Names

Hoifung Poon (Preferred)

Emails

****@microsoft.com (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

General Manager

Health Futures, Microsoft (microsoft.com)

2011 – Present

PhD student

Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington (washington.edu)

2005 – 2011

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Pedro Domingos

2005 – 2011

Expertise

semantic parsing

Present

information extraction

Present

statistical relational learning

Present

biomedical NLP

Present

multimodal learning

Present

medical imaging

Present

Publications

ArenaBencher: Automatic Benchmark Evolution via Multi-Model Competitive Evaluation
Qin Liu, Jacob Dineen, Yuxi Huang, Sheng Zhang, Hoifung Poon, Ben Zhou, Muhao Chen
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
X-REASONER: Towards Generalizable Reasoning Across Modalities and Domains
Qianchu Liu, Sheng Zhang, Guanghui Qin, Timothy Ossowski, Yu Gu, Ying Jin, Sid Kiblawi, J. Samuel Preston, Mu Wei, Paul Vozila, Tristan Naumann, Hoifung Poon
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Self-supervised Sparse Vision Concepts for Image Understanding and Reconstruction
Theodore Zhao, Sid Kiblawi, Jianwei Yang, Naoto Usuyama, Reuben Tan, Noel C Codella, Tristan Naumann, Hoifung Poon, Mu Wei
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Pretraining Patient Foundation Models on Multimodal Patient Journeys
Daniel P Jeong, Suhana Bedi, Cliff Wong, Sheng Zhang, Jeya Maria Jose Valanarasu, Qianchu Liu, Reuben Tan, Zelalem Gero, Jaspreet Bagga, Juan Manuel Zambrano Chaves, Naoto Usuyama, Hanwen Xu, Roshanthi K Weerasinghe, Rom Leidner, Brian Piening, carlo bifulco, Tristan Naumann, Hoifung Poon
- TS4H NeurIPS 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
CancerGUIDE: Cancer Guideline Understanding via Internal Disagreement Estimation
Alyssa Unell, Noel C Codella, J. Samuel Preston, Peniel Argaw, Wen-wai Yim, Zelalem Gero, Cliff Wong, Eric Horvitz, Amanda Hall, Rachel Ruican Zhong, Jiachen Li, Shrey Jain, Mu Wei, Matthew P. Lungren, Hoifung Poon
- GenAI4Health 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
BiomedParse-V : Scaling Foundation Model for Universal Text-guided Volumetric Biomedical Image Segmentation
Theodore Zhao, Ho Hin Lee, Alberto Santamaria-Pang, Noel C Codella, Sid Kiblawi, Yu Gu, Yu Fang, Wenxuan Teng, Naiteek Sangani, Ivan Tarapov, Matthew P. Lungren, Matthias Blondeel, Tristan Naumann, Naoto Usuyama, Sheng Wang, Paul Vozila, Hoifung Poon, Mu Wei
- CVPR 2025 Workshop MedSegFM Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Offset Unlearning for Large Language Models
James Y. Huang, Wenxuan Zhou, Fei Wang, Fred Morstatter, Sheng Zhang, Hoifung Poon, Muhao Chen
- Accepted by TMLR
- Readers: Everyone
Learning Robust Representations for Medical Images via Unifying (Self-)Supervisions
Xiaoxuan He, Xufang Luo, Yifan Yang, XINYANG JIANG, Zilong Wang, Naoto Usuyama, Sheng Zhang, Hoifung Poon, Yuqing Yang, Dongsheng Li, Lili Qiu
- Submitted to ICLR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
MuirBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Robust Multi-image Understanding
Fei Wang, Xingyu Fu, James Y. Huang, Zekun Li, Qin Liu, Xiaogeng Liu, Mingyu Derek Ma, Nan Xu, Wenxuan Zhou, Kai Zhang, Tianyi Lorena Yan, Wenjie Jacky Mo, Hsiang-Hui Liu, Pan Lu, Chunyuan Li, Chaowei Xiao, Kai-Wei Chang, Dan Roth, Sheng Zhang, Hoifung Poon et al. (1 additional authors not shown)
- ICLR 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
MedJourney: Counterfactual Medical Image Generation by Instruction-Learning from Multimodal Patient Journeys
Yu Gu, Jianwei Yang, Naoto Usuyama, Chunyuan Li, Sheng Zhang, Matthew P. Lungren, Jianfeng Gao, Hoifung Poon
- Submitted to ICLR 2024
- Readers: Everyone

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