Qi DOU

Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
(by courtesy) T Stone Robotics Institute
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)

Office: Rm 911, Ho Sin-Hang Engineering Building, CUHK, Shatin, HK
Email:

I start to look for 2026Fall PhD candidates, research directions include embodied AI, LLM/VLM/Multi-agent AI for healthcare. Please send me an email with your CV if interested. Our CUHK CSE department early admission application is open.

Research Interest

My research is at the interdisciplinary field of medical image analysis, machine learning and robotic surgery intelligence, aiming to create synergistic advancements for innovative intelligent systems that achieve an impact to support delivery of higher-quality medical diagnosis, intervention and education via next-generation healthcare technology. Previous representative works include 3D deep learning for image image computing, model generalizability and FL on heterogeneous medical data, surgical video analysis for real-time cognitive assistance, and SurRoL.
Recent focus: 1) Embodied AI for surgical robots, 2) LLM and smart XR for medical education, 3) Agentic AI systems for healthcare applications, 4) Robot sensing and learning in dynamic environments, 5) Robot planning and smart object manipulation.

News

[05/2025] One paper accepted to ACL 2025
[05/2025] One paper accepted to Nature Communications
[05/2025] One paper accepted to ICML 2025
[04/2025] One paper accepted to MedIA
[02/2025] I will serve as Area Chair for NeurIPS 2025
[10/2024] Three papers accepted to NeurIPS 2024
[10/2024] Listed in World's Top 2% Scientists 2023 by Stanford University (consecutive since 2020)
[08/2024] One paper accepted to MedIA
[08/2024] One paper accepted to IEEE RA-L
[07/2024] Two papers accepted to ECCV 2024
[07/2024] Paper on EndoNeRF's application to data-driven surgical simulation won the IJCARS-MICCAI 2022 Special Issue
Best Paper Award 3rd Prize
[06/2024] Eight papers accepted to MICCAI 2024 (with one Best Paper Award Finalist)
[06/2024] One paper accepted to NEJM AI (The New England Journal of Medicine)
[06/2024] One paper accepted to IEEE TMI and one paper accepted to MedIA
[05/2024] To serve in the Organization Committee of IROS 2025

Selected Awards

Best Paper Award 3d Prize of IJCARS-MICCAI 2022 Special Issue, 2024
NSFC Excellent Young Scientists Fund (Hong Kong & Macau), 2023.
IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) Early Career Achievement Award, 2023.
国家教育部高等学校科学研究优秀成果奖(科学技术), 自然科学二等奖 (排名: 3/5), 2022.
MICCAI Young Scientist Publication Award, 2022. (last author)
IEEE Trans. on Medical Imaging Distinguished Reviewer, Platinum Level, 2022.
CUHK Department Exemplary Teaching Award, 2022.
IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award in Medical Robotics, 2021. (last author)
IEEE EMBS Prize Paper Award 2nd Place, Trans. on Biomedical Engineering, 2021. (first author)
MICCAI Young Scientist Publication Impact Paper Award Finalist, 2021. (first author)
1st Prize of IJCARS-MICCAI Best Paper Award, 2021. (corresponding author)
IEEE Trans. on Medical Imaging Distinguished Reviewer, Gold Level, 2021.
Hong Kong Institution of Science Young Scientist Award in Engineering Science, 2018.
CUHK Faculty Outstanding Thesis Award, 2018.
Best Paper Award of Elsevier Medical Image Analysis-MICCAI, 2017. (first author)

Teaching

Spring 2025: BMEG3102 Bioinformatics [course website]
Fall2024: CSCI3230 Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence (with Elite-Mirror ESTR 3108) [course website]
Spring2024: BMEG3102 Bioinformatics
Fall2023: CSCI3230 Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence (with Elite-Mirror ESTR 3108)
Spring2023: BMEG3102 Bioinformatics
Fall2022: CSCI3230 Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence (with Elite-Mirror ESTR 3108)
Spring2022: BMEG3102 Bioinformatics
Fall2021: CSCI3230 Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence (with Elite-Mirror ESTR 3108)
Spring2021: BMEG5830 Medical Imaging (guest lecture)
Spring2021: BMEG3102 Bioinformatics
Guest lectures for: AIST1000, BMEG5830, BMEG3420

Recent Services

Conferences:

Area Chair, NeurIPS 2025
Program Co-Chair, International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2024
Area Chair, Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024
Area Chair, International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2023
Program Co-Chair, International Conference on Information Processing in Computer Assisted Interventions (IPCAI), 2023.
Program Co-Chair, International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2022
Program Co-Chair, International Conference on Medical Imaging with Deep Learning (MIDL), 2022 & 2021.
Founding Board Member, MONAI Stream Advisory Working Group, since 2022.
Area Chair & Session Chair, Inter. Conference on Information Processing in Computer Assisted Interventions (IPCAI), 2022.
Organization Committee, NeurIPS Workshop on Medical Imaging (MedNeurIPS), 2022, 2021 & 2020.
Organization Committee, CVPR Workshop on Medical Computer Vision (CVPR-MCV), 2022 & 2021.
Organization Committee, MICCAI Joint Workshop on Augmented Environments for Computer Assisted Interventions, Computer Assisted and Robotic Endoscopy, and Context-Aware Operating Theatres (AE-CAI | CARE | OR 2.0), 2022 & 2021 & 2020.
Organization Committee, MICCAI Workshop on Domain Adaptation and Representation Transfer (DART), 2022 & 2021.
Organization Committee, ECCV Workshop on Medical Computer Vision (ECCV-MCV), 2022.

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