We are delighted to announce that Prof. QIU Anqi, Professor of the Department of Health Technology and Informatics, has been appointed as Director of the Mental Health Research Centre (MHRC) under the PolyU Academy for Interdisciplinary Research (PAIR), effective from 1 May 2025.
Prof. Qiu is a Global STEM Scholar under the Global STEM Professorship Scheme of the HKSAR government. She also holds an adjunct professorship in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University. Her previous roles include Deputy Head for Research and Enterprises at the Department of Biomedical Engineering of the National University of Singapore (NUS); Director of the BME Innovation Centre at the NUS Suzhou Research Institute; and Master of Eusoff Hall at NUS.
Specialising in computational analyses, Prof. Qiu is deeply committed to understanding the origin of individual health differences across a lifespan. Her research team develops innovative technologies in medical data analysis deep learning to leverage complex and informative datasets that include disease phenotypes, neuroimaging and genetics to further her research, which yielded high-impact publications in Nature, Nature Neuroscience, Nature Mental Health, American Journal of Psychiatry, Biological Psychiatry, IEEE Transactions in Medical Imaging and Medical Image Analysis, among others.
More recently, Prof. Qiu has been elected as Council Chair of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, an international society dedicated to advancing the understanding of the anatomical and functional organization of the human brain using neuroimaging.
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