Hichem Metmer, Ph.D. (海诚)

I obtained my Ph.D. in Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Systems from the State Key Laboratory of Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Systems (MAIS) at the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA), Beijing, China. Previously, I received my Master’s degree in Computer Science and Technology from Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NJUST), Nanjing, China, and my Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Batna, Algeria.

Research Interests:

• Large Language Models (LLMs).
• Multimodal Foundation Models.
• Federated Learning.

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• Hichem Metmer, Xiaoshan Yang: An Open Chest X-ray Dataset with Benchmarks for Automatic Radiology Report Generation in French, Neurocomputing, 2024. Project
• Hichem Metmer, Xiaoshan Yang: FedMRG: Federated Medical Report Generation via Text-Aware Learning Rate Adjustment and Multi-Level Prototype Collaboration, Multimedia Systems, 2025. Project
• Hichem Metmer, Xiaoshan Yang: FedX: Federated Cross-Domain Fine-Tuning for Chest X-ray Report Generation Using Multimodal Large Language Models, Under Review.

• Ph.D. Scholarship, CAS-TWAS President's Fellowship Programme, 2017.
• Postgraduate Scholarship, CGS Postgraduate Scholarship Program, 2014.

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