Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Generative AI, Foundation Models, Vision and Language, Medical AI

Ph.D., University of Oxford

M.Sc. (by research), University of Oxford

B.Eng., University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)

Ling Shao is known for establishing the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) - the world's first and only AI university, and the Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence (IIAI) in Abu Dhabi, UAE. He is currently a distinguished professor at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. 

Dr. Shao received his B.Eng. in Electronic and Information Engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), his M.Sc. in Medical Image Analysis and his Ph.D. (D.Phil.) in Computer Vision from the University of Oxford. He previously held positions of CEO and Chief Scientist of IIAI (2018-2021), Provost and Executive Vice-President of MBZUAI (2019-2021), Chair Professor in Computer Vision and Machine Learning at the University of East Anglia (2016-2018),  Chair Professor in Computer Vision and Machine Intelligence at Northumbria University (2014-2016), Senior Lecturer at the University of Sheffield (2009-2014), and Senior Scientist at Philips Research in the Netherlands (2005-2009). His research interests include Computer Vision, Generative AI, Multimodal AI, Vision and Language, and AI for Healthcare.

500+ publications at AI-related conferences/journals including CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, TPAMI and IJCV. 

​Google Scholar profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=z84rLjoAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

IEEE Fellow

IAPR Fellow

IET Fellow

BCS Fellow

Mohammed bin Rashid Medal of Scientific Distinguishment, UAE

Member of Mohammed bin Rashid Academy of Scientists (the National Academy of the UAE)