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General Information

Full Name Dr Shangqi Gao
Address Early Cancer Institute CB2 0XZ, Cambridge, UK
Research Interest Inverse Problems, Medical Image Analysis, Explainable AI

Education

  • 2018 - 2022
    PhD in Statistics
    Fudan University, Shanghai, China
    • PhD Thesis, Deep Image Decomposition and Reconstruction, Defensed in 05/2022
    • Advisor, Prof. Xiahai Zhuang
    • Deep Image Decomposition and Reconstruction
      • This dissertation chronicles deep learning-based mathematical and statistical frameworks for solving inverse problems in photography and medical imaging as well as their applications in natural image super-resolution and medical image segmentation.
  • 2015 - 2018
    MSc in Applied Mathematics
    Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
    • MSc Thesis, Regularization-Based Approaches for Tensor Completion, Defensed in 05/2018
    • Advisor, Prof. Qibin Fan
    • Regularization-Based Approaches for Tensor Completion
      • This dissertation chronicles regularization approaches for solving inverse problems in tensor completion as well as their applications in color images, color videos, and magnetic resonance images.
  • 2011 - 2015
    BSc in Applied Mathematics
    Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China

Experience

  • 2024 - now
    Research Associate
    Early Cancer Institute, University of Cambridge
    • Doing projects on AI for Cancer Imaging by integrating machine learning and multi-omics data analysis.
    • Focusing on bridging various data modalities, including radiological imaging, genomics, liquid biopsies, and digital pathology, to identify novel biomarkers, uncover disease
  • 2023 - 2024
    Postdoctoral Research Assistant
    Big Data Institute, University of Oxford
    • Doing a project on Urological Cancer Pathology AI-Beyond Prostate by translating new AI solutions for pathology into the clinical environment.
    • Focusing on graph neural networks, Bayesian deep learning, and uncertainty quantification in urological cancer grading.

Honors and Awards

  • 2024
    • Shanghai Natural Science Award (2nd Prize), Shanghai Science and Technology Awards
  • 2023
    • MedIA Best Paper Award, Elsevier & MedIA
  • 2022
    • Excellent Graduate Award, Shanghai Higher Education Department
    • Student Travel Award, MICCAI
  • 2021
    • National Graduate Scholarship (Ph.D.), Fudan University
  • 2017
    • National Graduate Scholarship (MSc), Wuhan University
  • 2014
    • Meritorious Winner of MCM, SIAM
  • 2013
    • Honorable Mention of MCM, CSIAM

Academic Service

  • Academic society
    • President, MICCAI Special Interest Group on Explainable AI for Medical Image Analysis, 2024 - now
  • Peer Review
    • Cancer Discovery
    • Nature Communications
    • Medical Image Analysis
    • IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
    • IEEE Transactions on Neural Network and Learning System
    • Neural Networks
    • ICCV, CVPR, ECCV, and MICCAI