Biography

Prof. Xiaojun Chen is with Institute of Medical Robotics and School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China. He received his Ph.D from SJTU in 2006, and then furthered his research as a postdoctoral fellow at the same institution until 2008. After that, he has been working at SJTU as assistant professor (2008-2010), associate professor (2010-2018), and full professor (2018-now). As a visiting professor, he had worked at the Surgical Planning Laboratory, Harvard Medical School during Oct 2011~ Oct 2012; TIMC-IMAG lab, CNRS, France during Sep~Dec 2013; the OMFS-IMPATH lab, KU Leuven, Belgium during Jun~Aug 2015, and the CISTIB lab, the University of Sheffield, UK during Jun~ Aug 2016. His research focuses on medical image analysis, image-guided interventions, artificial intelligence in biomedical physics and analysis, VR/AR/MR technology in medicine, medical robotics, biomedical manufacturing, etc.
He is the author and co-author of more than 200 peer-reviewed journal/conference articles in MedIA, IEEE-TMI, IEEE-TBME, IEEE-TVCG, CMIG, CMPB, IJCARS, etc., the owner of more than 20 patents, and have been invited to deliver more than 30 lectures in the prestigious international conferences including IEEE-EMBC, IEEE-ITAB, MICCAI, CARS, iSMIT, CAI, etc. He is the PI of more than 30 research projects, including eight funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China(One key project), two funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China(MOST), and several international collaboration projects including PHC-Cai Yuanpei and Xu Guangqi Program (China-France), NSFC-RS Cooperation and Exchange Program (China-UK), NSFC-DFG Cooperation and Mobility Exchange Program(China-Germany), NSFC-STINT Cooperation Project(China-Sweden), NSFC Joint Research Fund for Overseas Scholars (China-Belgium), MOST International Cooperation Project(China-Israel), International Research Project Funded by Shanghai municipal government (China-USA-Austria), etc.
He is an associate editor of Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics(Elsevier), Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine (Springer), Computer Assisted Surgery(Taylor & Francis), IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Medical Engineering & Physics(Elsevier), an executive editorial board member of Physics in Medicine & Biology (IOP), and editorial board member of International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (Springer), International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery (Wiley), etc., a guest editor of Frontiers Robotics and AI and a scientific board member of the CAI (the International Academy of Computer Aided Implantology) academy, the DDS (the International Digital Dentistry Society), Chinese Digital Orthopedics Society of SICOT (the Société Internationale de Chirurgie Orthopédique et de Traumatologie), Medical Imaging Committee of the Chinese Society of Image and Graphics (CSIG), Expert Committee of the Chinese Medical Robot Standardization, etc. Since 2008, he has been a regular reviewer of MedIA, IEEE-TMI, IEEE-TBME, IEEE-JBHI, IEEE-TMECH, IJCARS, IJMRCAS, CMIG, CMPB, CIBM, CMBBE, ERMD, PMB, MEP, CAS, JIM, JMIHI, JHE, etc. and edited 3 special issues for Frontiers Robotics and AI and Electronics (Bioelectronics Section). Especially, he was awarded IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging(IF=11.037) Distinguished Reviewer and Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics(IF=7.422) Outstanding Reviewer in 2022, and also named in "the world's top 2% of Scientists List" in the field of Biomedical Engineering in 2023(Elsevier Data Repository).
He is also invited by European Research Council (ERC), the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), Israeli Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology, and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) as an external reviewer. He was granted Second Prize of National Science & Technology Progress Award of China (2019), Chinese Society of Stomatology Science and Technology Award (2018), Scientific Chinese "Outstanding Young Scientist Award"(2017), Jiangsu Province Science & Technology Award (2017), China Medical Science and Technology Award (2016), Shanghai Science & Technology Award (2010), Shanghai Medical Science & Technology Award (2008). For his academic achievements, he has been included for the 2010 Edition of Marquis Who's Who in the World. In May 2011, he was selected as one of the seven laureates of “France Talent Innovation (FTI) Program” launched by the Embassy of France in China, aiming to foster innovation and reinforce links between France and China.