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Publications (56)

q-bio.TO2025

R-Net: A Reliable and Resource-Efficient CNN for Colorectal Cancer Detection with XAI Integration

Rokonozzaman Ayon, Md Taimur Ahad, Bo Song +1

State-of-the-art (SOTA) Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are criticized for their extensive computational power, long training times, and large datasets. To overcome this limit…

cond-mat.quant-gas2020

Effective statistical fringe removal algorithm for high-sensitivity imaging of ultracold atoms

Bo Song, Chengdong He, Zejian Ren +3

High-sensitivity imaging of ultracold atoms is often challenging when interference patterns are imprinted on the imaging light. Such image noises result in low signal-to-noise rati…

physics.atom-ph2025

Two-color magneto-optical trapping of ytterbium atoms

Xiao Li, Yufei Wang, Ligeng Yu +1

We report laser cooling and trapping of ytterbium atoms in a two-color magneto-optical trap (MOT). Benefited from both the broad singlet transition ($^1\text{S}_0\rightarrow {}^1\t…

eess.IV2024

DVS: Blood cancer detection using novel CNN-based ensemble approach

Md Taimur Ahad, Israt Jahan Payel, Bo Song +1

Blood cancer can only be diagnosed properly if it is detected early. Each year, more than 1.24 million new cases of blood cancer are reported worldwide. There are about 6,000 cance…

physics.gen-ph2019

Cell vibron polariton in the myelin sheath of nerve

Bo Song, Yousheng Shu

Polaritons are arousing tremendous interests in physics and material sciences for their unique and amazing properties, especially including the condensation, lasing without inversi…

cs.LG2020

Balance Between Efficient and Effective Learning: Dense2Sparse Reward Shaping for Robot Manipulation with Environment Uncertainty

Yongle Luo, Kun Dong, Lili Zhao +3

Efficient and effective learning is one of the ultimate goals of the deep reinforcement learning (DRL), although the compromise has been made in most of the time, especially for th…

cond-mat.quant-gas2021

Realizing discontinuous quantum phase transitions in a strongly-correlated driven optical lattice

Bo Song, Shovan Dutta, Shaurya Bhave +4

Discontinuous quantum phase transitions and the associated metastability play central roles in diverse areas of physics ranging from ferromagnetism to false vacuum decay in the ear…

cs.LG2019

Correlated Anomaly Detection from Large Streaming Data

Zheng Chen, Xinli Yu, Yuan Ling +4

Correlated anomaly detection (CAD) from streaming data is a type of group anomaly detection and an essential task in useful real-time data mining applications like botnet detection…

cond-mat.soft2014

Molecular-Scale Hydrophilicity Induced by Solute: Molecular-thick Charged Pancakes of Aqueous Salt Solution on Hydrophobic Carbon-based Surfaces

Guosheng Shi, Yue Shen, Jian Liu +5

We directly observed molecular-thick aqueous salt-solution pancakes on a hydrophobic graphite surface under ambient conditions employing atomic force microscopy. This observation i…

cs.CV2024

ViTCN: Vision Transformer Contrastive Network For Reasoning

Bo Song, Yuanhao Xu, Yichao Wu

Machine learning models have achieved significant milestones in various domains, for example, computer vision models have an exceptional result in object recognition, and in natura…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015

Unique opportunity to harness polarization in GaN to override the conventional power electronics figure-of-merits

Huili Grace Xing, Bo Song, Mingda Zhu +4

Owing to the large breakdown electric field, wide bandgap semiconductors such as SiC, GaN, Ga2O3 and diamond based power devices are the focus for next generation power switching a…

q-bio.BM2024

RNA Secondary Structure Prediction Using Transformer-Based Deep Learning Models

Yanlin Zhou, Tong Zhan, Yichao Wu +2

The Human Genome Project has led to an exponential increase in data related to the sequence, structure, and function of biomolecules. Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary researc…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015

Dual Optical Marker Raman Characterization of Strained GaN-channels on AlN Using AlN/GaN/AlN Quantum Wells and 15N Isotopes

Meng Qi, Guowang Li, Vladimir Protasenko +10

This work shows that the combination of ultrathin highly strained GaN quantum wells embedded in an AlN matrix, with controlled isotopic concentrations of Nitrogen enables a dual ma…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2005

A wave function based ab initio non-equilibrium Green's function approach to charge transport

Martin Albrecht, Bo Song, Alexander Schnurpfeil

We present a novel ab initio non-equilibrium approach to calculate the current across a molecular junction. The method rests on a wave function based description of the central reg…

cond-mat.quant-gas2026

Thouless Pumping of Large Chern Numbers in Optical Floquet Quasicrystals

Shien Wan, Zecheng Li, Bo Song

Chern numbers are central to correlated and topological phenomena, yet most topological systems are associated with Chern numbers of order unity. Here we propose a scheme to achiev…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016

Strained GaN Quantum-Well FETs on Single Crystal Bulk AlN Substrates

Meng Qi, Guowang Li, Satyaki Ganguly +8

We report the first realization of molecular beam epitaxy grown strained GaN quantum well field-effect transistors on single-crystal bulk AlN substrates. The fabricated double hete…

math.NA2025

Data-driven balanced truncation for second-order systems via the approximate Gramians

Xiaolong Wang, Xuerong Yang, Xiaoli Wang +1

This paper studies the data-driven balanced truncation (BT) method for second-order systems based on the measurements in the frequency domain. The basic idea is to approximate Gram…

cs.CR2023

Assessing Vulnerabilities of Adversarial Learning Algorithm through Poisoning Attacks

Jingfeng Zhang, Bo Song, Bo Han +3

Adversarial training (AT) is a robust learning algorithm that can defend against adversarial attacks in the inference phase and mitigate the side effects of corrupted data in the t…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017

Electron Mobility in Polarization-doped AlGaN with a Low Concentration Near 10 cm

Mingda Zhu, Meng Qi, Kazuki Nomoto +6

In this letter, carrier transport in graded AlGaN with a polarization-induced n-type doping as low as ~ 10 cm is repor…

quant-ph2026

Collective Coherent Perfect Absorption in a Synthetic Photon-Phonon Lattice

Sihan Wang, Qichun Liu, Bo Song +3

Coherent perfect absorption (CPA) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for controlling classical and quantum light, and has been demonstrated across a broad range of physical platfor…

cs.CV2026

BrainFusionNet: a deep learning and XAI model to understand local, global, and sequential features of MRI images for improved brain tumour detection

Md Taimur Ahad, Bo Song, Yan Li

The noise of Magnetic Resonance Imaging MRI poses challenges for Deep Learning DL when tumor boundaries are obscured tumor location and appearance are complex Therefore we develop…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2011

Atomic-scale electron-beam sculpting of defect-free graphene nanostructures

Bo Song, Grégory F. Schneider, Qiang Xu +3

In order to harvest the many promising properties of graphene in (electronic) applications, a technique is required to cut, shape or sculpt the material on a nanoscale without dama…

cs.SE2024

Automating the Training and Deployment of Models in MLOps by Integrating Systems with Machine Learning

Penghao Liang, Bo Song, Xiaoan Zhan +2

This article introduces the importance of machine learning in real-world applications and explores the rise of MLOps (Machine Learning Operations) and its importance for solving ch…

cs.CV2026

TopoHR: Hierarchical Centerline Representation for Cyclic Topology Reasoning in Driving Scenes with Point-to-Instance Relations

Yifeng Bai, Zhirong Chen, Bo Song +2

Topology reasoning is crucial for autonomous driving. Current methods primarily focus on instance-level learning for centerline detection, followed by a sequential module for topol…

physics.app-ph2018

Resonant confinement of excitonic polariton and ultra-efficient light harvest in artificial photosynthesis

Yong-Cong Chen, Bo Song, Anthony J. Leggett +2

We show that in the recent artificial light-harvesting experiment [Angewandte Chemie Intl. Ed. 55, 2759 (2016)] on organic nanocrystals self-assembled from difluoroboron chromophor…

physics.optics2024

Chirality tuning and reversing with resonant phase-change metasurfaces

Xinbo Sha, Kang Du, Yixuan Zeng +8

Dynamic control of circular dichroism in photonic structures is critically important for compact spectrometers, stereoscopic displays, and information processing exploiting multipl…

eess.IV2024

A comprehensive study on Blood Cancer detection and classification using Convolutional Neural Network

Md Taimur Ahad, Sajib Bin Mamun, Sumaya Mustofa +2

Over the years in object detection several efficient Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) networks, such as DenseNet201, InceptionV3, ResNet152v2, SEresNet152, VGG19, Xception gaine…

cond-mat.quant-gas2024

Realizing a spatially correlated lattice interferometer

Peng Peng, Dekai Mao, Yi Liang +4

Atom interferometers provide a powerful tool for measuring physical constants and testifying fundamental physics with unprecedented precision. Conventional atom interferometry focu…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021

Soft-Elasticity Optimises Dissipation in 3D-Printed Liquid Crystal Elastomers

Devesh Mistry, Nicholas A. Traugutt, Brett Sanborn +7

Soft-elasticity in monodomain liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) is promising for impact-absorbing applications where strain energy is ideally absorbed at constant stress. Convention…

cond-mat.mes-hall2008

Anomalous conductance response of DNA wires under stretching

Bo Song, Marcus Elstner, Gianaurelio Cuniberti

The complex mechanisms governing charge migration in DNA oligomers reflect the rich structural and electronic properties of the molecule of life. Controlling the mechanical stabili…

cs.LG2024

BadLabel: A Robust Perspective on Evaluating and Enhancing Label-noise Learning

Jingfeng Zhang, Bo Song, Haohan Wang +4

Label-noise learning (LNL) aims to increase the model's generalization given training data with noisy labels. To facilitate practical LNL algorithms, researchers have proposed diff…

cs.SI2019

Virtual Web Based Personalized PageRank Updating

Bo Song, Xiaobo Jiang, Xinhua Zhuang

Growing popularity of social networks demands a highly efficient Personalized PageRank (PPR) updating due to the fast-evolving web graphs of enormous size. While current researches…

cs.CV2025

CurveFormer++: 3D Lane Detection by Curve Propagation with Temporal Curve Queries and Attention

Yifeng Bai, Zhirong Chen, Pengpeng Liang +2

In autonomous driving, accurate 3D lane detection using monocular cameras is important for downstream tasks. Recent CNN and Transformer approaches usually apply a two-stage model d…

cs.RO2022

Relay Hindsight Experience Replay: Self-Guided Continual Reinforcement Learning for Sequential Object Manipulation Tasks with Sparse Rewards

Yongle Luo, Yuxin Wang, Kun Dong +4

Exploration with sparse rewards remains a challenging research problem in reinforcement learning (RL). Especially for sequential object manipulation tasks, the RL agent always rece…

cond-mat.quant-gas2019

Observation of nodal-line semimetal with ultracold fermions in an optical lattice

Bo Song, Chengdong He, Sen Niu +4

Observation of topological phases beyond two-dimension (2D) has been an open challenge for ultracold atoms. Here, we realize for the first time a 3D spin-orbit coupled nodal-line s…

physics.bio-ph2017

Anomalous behavior of membrane fluidity caused by copper-copper bond coupled phospholipids

Xiankai Jiang, Jinjin Zhang, Bo Zhou +5

Membrane fluidity, well-known to be essential for cell functions, is obviously affected by copper. However, the underlying mechanism is still far from being understood, especially…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015

Pressure-induced reversible phase transition and amorphization of CHNHPbI

Kai Wang, Ran Liu, Yuancun Qiao +4

Recent advances of highly efficient solar cells based on organic-inorganic halide perovskites have triggered intense research efforts to establish the fundamental properties of the…

cond-mat.mes-hall2007

DFT-based calculation of Coulomb blockade in molecular junction

Bo Song

Quantum transport through single molecules is very sensitive to the strength of the molecule-electrode contact. When a molecular junction weakly coupled to external electrodes, cha…

cs.CV2026

Enhancing 3D Semantic Scene Completion with a Refinement Module

Dunxing Zhang, Jiachen Lu, Han Yang +2

We propose ESSC-RM, a plug-and-play Enhancing framework for Semantic Scene Completion with a Refinement Module, which can be seamlessly integrated into existing SSC models. ESSC-RM…

cond-mat.quant-gas2023

Observing the two-dimensional Bose glass in an optical quasicrystal

Jr-Chiun Yu, Shaurya Bhave, Lee Reeve +2

The combined effect of disorder and interactions is central to the richness of condensed matter physics and can lead to novel quantum states such as the Bose glass phase in disorde…

cs.CV2021

A Neural Lip-Sync Framework for Synthesizing Photorealistic Virtual News Anchors

Ruobing Zheng, Zhou Zhu, Bo Song +1

Lip sync has emerged as a promising technique for generating mouth movements from audio signals. However, synthesizing a high-resolution and photorealistic virtual news anchor is s…

cond-mat.quant-gas2020

Evidence for Bosonization in a three-dimensional gas of SU() fermions

Bo Song, Yangqian Yan, Chengdong He +3

Blurring the boundary between bosons and fermions lies at the heart of a wide range of intriguing quantum phenomena in multiple disciplines, ranging from condensed matter physics a…

cond-mat.quant-gas2018

Observation of symmetry-protected topological band with ultracold fermions

Bo Song, Long Zhang, Chengdong He +5

Symmetry plays a fundamental role in understanding complex quantum matter, particularly in classifying topological quantum phases, which have attracted great interests in the recen…

cs.CV2023

CircleFormer: Circular Nuclei Detection in Whole Slide Images with Circle Queries and Attention

Hengxu Zhang, Pengpeng Liang, Zhiyong Sun +2

Both CNN-based and Transformer-based object detection with bounding box representation have been extensively studied in computer vision and medical image analysis, but circular obj…

cs.IR2018

Neural Collaborative Ranking

Bo Song, Xin Yang, Yi Cao +1

Recommender systems are aimed at generating a personalized ranked list of items that an end user might be interested in. With the unprecedented success of deep learning in computer…

cs.LG2018

Fast Botnet Detection From Streaming Logs Using Online Lanczos Method

Zheng Chen, Xinli Yu, Chi Zhang +7

Botnet, a group of coordinated bots, is becoming the main platform of malicious Internet activities like DDOS, click fraud, web scraping, spam/rumor distribution, etc. This paper f…

cond-mat.quant-gas2019

Collective excitations in two-dimensional SU() Fermi gases with tunable spin

Chengdong He, Zejian Ren, Bo Song +5

We measure collective excitations of a harmonically trapped two-dimensional (2D) SU() Fermi gas of Yb confined to a stack of layers formed by a one-dimensional optical l…

cond-mat.mes-hall2007

Molecular junctions in the Coulomb blockade regime: rectification and nesting

Bo Song, Dmitry A. Ryndyk, Gianaurelio Cuniberti

Quantum transport through single molecules is very sensitive to the strength of the molecule-electrode contact. Here, we investigate the behavior of a model molecular junction weak…

cs.NE2015

A Revisit of Infinite Population Models for Evolutionary Algorithms on Continuous Optimization Problems

Bo Song, Victor O. K. Li

Infinite population models are important tools for studying population dynamics of evolutionary algorithms. They describe how the distributions of populations change between consec…

physics.comp-ph2020

Designable ductility of a nano-network from few-layered graphene bonded with benzene: A molecular dynamics study

Jiao Shi, Jia-Long Zhang, Xin Li +1

In nanoscale, motion operation of a nano-objective is usually realized by displacement load, which put forwards high requirement for ductility of material. Since pristine graphene…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020

Welding few-layered graphene ribbon via penetration of high-speed fullerenes

Jiao Shi, Chunwei Hu, Jiaxing Ji +1

Two-dimensional materials are popular in design of nanodevices. To improve bending stiffness of few-layered graphene ribbon, the relative sliding between neighboring layers should…

cond-mat.quant-gas2016

Spin-orbit coupled two-electron Fermi gases of ytterbium atoms

Bo Song, Chengdong He, Shanchao Zhang +4

We demonstrate all-optical implementation of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in a two-electron Fermi gas of Yb atoms by coupling two hyperfine ground states with a narrow optical…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015

Esaki diodes in van der Waals heterojunctions with broken-gap energy band alignment

Rusen Yan, Sara Fathipour, Yimo Han +8

Van der Waals (vdW) heterojunctions composed of 2-dimensional (2D) layered materials are emerging as a solid-state materials family that exhibit novel physics phenomena that can po…

cond-mat.quant-gas2026

Optical transport of cold atoms to quantum degeneracy

Yanqing Tao, Yufei Wang, Ligeng Yu +1

Efficient transport of cold atoms is essential for continuous operation, enabling applications ranging from atomic lasers to continuously operated qubits. However, deep potentials…

cond-mat.quant-gas2018

Collective dipole oscillations of a spin-orbit coupled Fermi gas

Shanchao Zhang, Chengdong He, Elnur Hajiyev +3

The collective dipole mode is induced and measured in a spin-orbit (SO) coupled degenerate Fermi gas of Yb atoms. Using a differential optical Stark shift, we split the deg…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2005

An ab initio non-equilibrium Green's function approach to charge transport: dithiolethine

Alexander Schnurpfeil, Bo Song, Martin Albrecht

We present a novel ab initio non-equilibrium approach to calculate the current across a molecular junction. The method rests on a wave function based full ab initio description of…