Academic Staff

Prof. Qiu is currently the Director of Mental Health Research Centre, Associate Dean of Graduate School, and a Professor and Global STEM Scholar in the Department of Health Technology and Informatics at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), Chair-elect, Organization for Human Brain Mapping.

Her research focuses on the integration of neuroimaging, genomics, and computational modeling to understand brain development and mental health across the lifespan. Her team has high-impact publications in Nature, Nature Neuroscience, Nature Mental Health, American Journal of Psychiatry, Biological Psychiatry, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Medical Image Analysis, etc. 

Her significant contributions to the field have earned her numerous accolades, including the Faculty Young Research Award and the 2016 Young Researcher Award at NUS. In recognition of her outstanding research achievements, she was honored with the prestigious "Dean's Chair" Associate Professorship in 2017, Top 50 Asia Women Tech Leaders 2025. She was awarded a Fellow of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), class 2024, and was elected as Chair of OHBM in 2025.

• Ph.D. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Johns Hopkins University                 
• Master of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Johns Hopkins University                 
• Master of Biomedical Engineering, University of Connecticut                 
• B.S. of Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University