Ling Shao

Chinese computer scientist

Ling Shao

Alma mater| University of Science and Technology of China (B.Eng.)
University of Oxford (M.Sc. and Ph.D.)
Awards| IEEE Fellow (2021)[1]
IAPR Fellow (2018)[2]
Scientific career
Fields| Computer Vision
Deep Learning
Machine Learning
Generative AI
Medical Imaging
Vision and Language
Institutions| Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence (IIAI)
Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI)
Doctoral advisor| Michael Brady

Ling Shao is a computer scientist and a researcher in artificial intelligence. He was the founding CEO and Chief Scientist of the Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence (IIAI), Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates.[3][4] He was also the initiator of the world's first AI university - Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, for which he served as its founding Provost and Executive Vice President from 2019 to 2021.[5][6] Due to his scientific contributions to the UAE, he was honored with the Mohammed bin Rashid Medal for Scientific Distinguishment (the highest scientific recognition in the UAE) by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the Prime-Minister and Vice-President of the UAE and the Ruler of Dubai.

Ling Shao has been elected a Fellow of the IEEE,[1] the IAPR,[2] the IET and the British Computer Society.[7]

## Education[edit]

Ling Shao received his B.Eng. degree in Electronic and Information Engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2001.[8] He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. (D.Phil.) degrees from the University of Oxford in 2002 and 2005, respectively.[9]

## Career and Research[edit]

After finishing his PhD, Ling Shao worked as a Senior Scientist at Philips Research in Eindhoven, the Netherlands from 2005 to 2009. Between 2009 and 2017, he was a senior academic with several British universities, including Senior Lecturer at the University of Sheffield and Chair Professor at the University of East Anglia.[10][8]

Shao's research interests include computer vision, machine learning, generative AI, medical image analysis and vision and language.[11][10]

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b "NEWLY ELEVATED FELLOW CLASS 2021" (PDF). ieee.org. Retrieved 2021-06-02.
2. ^ a b "IAPR Fellows, 2018". iapr.org. Retrieved 2021-06-02.
3. ^ "Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence". inceptioniai.org. Retrieved 2021-06-02.
4. ^ "Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence: A Bold Initiative to Foster Global AI Research and Innovation". Aaas.org. Retrieved 2021-07-24.
5. ^ "MBZUAI names AI scientist Shao as exec VP & provost". arabnews.com. 12 May 2020. Retrieved 2021-06-21.
6. ^ "MBZUAI appoints leading AI scientist Ling Shao as Executive Vice President and Provost". mbzuai.ac.ae. Retrieved 2021-06-02.
7. ^ "IEEE Xplore author information". ieeexplore.ieee.org. Retrieved 2021-06-02.
8. ^ a b "The AIM Lab (AI for Medical Imaging) member information". ivi.fnwi.uva.nl. Retrieved 2021-06-02.
9. ^ "USERN ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER". usern.tums.ac.ir. Retrieved 2021-06-21.
10. ^ a b "The dblp computer science bibliography". dblp.uni-trier.de. Retrieved 2021-06-02.
11. ^ "Google Scholar". scholar.google.com/schhp?hl=en. Retrieved 2021-06-21.

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