Biography

Guoyan Zheng, Ph.D., is a tenured Professor and deputy dean of Institute of Medical Robotics, Shagnhai Jiao Tong University, China. He is also the director of the Center for Robot Vision and Image Guidance of the same institute. Before he moved to Shanghai, he was an Associate Professor at the Institute for Surgical Technology and Biomechanics, University of Bern, Switzerland. His research interest lies in the fields of medical image computing, computer assisted interventions, machine learning, deep learning, medical robotics and multimodality image analysis. He has been granted 8 US and European Patents and published over 260 peer-reviewed articles – over 136 of them are peer-reviewed journal publications in both technical and clinical fields. Dr. Zheng is an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (IEEE TBME), IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (IEEE JBHI), Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics (CMIG), Scientific Reports and Frontiers in Radiology. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the International Society for Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions (MICCAI Society) from 2018 to 2022. He is reviewers for multiple funding agencies and received numerous prizes and awards for his academic and clinical performance, including Ypsomed Innovation Prize for Research and Development. Dr. Zheng received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Bern, Switzerland and did his habilitation on medical image computing. He received the venia docendi from the same University and holds the title of Privatdozent (PD).