B.Sc. (Beihang Univ.), Ph.D. (CUHK)
Associate Professor
IEEE Senior Member
Medical Image Analysis, Machine Learning, Surgical Data Science, Robotics
Biography
Prof. Qi Dou is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). She is an affiliated member of CUHK T-Stone Robotics Institute, CUHK Institute of Medical Intelligence and XR, Hong Kong Multi-scale Medical Robotics Center, and Hong Kong Centre for Logistics Robotics. Her research is at the interdisciplinary field of AI and robotics technologies for medical applications including autonomous surgical robot, medical imaging, safe embodied AI, etc. Prof. Dou’s research work has received a number of international and national awards, including IEEE EMBS Early Career Achievement Award (2023), Ministry of Education Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Award — Second-class Award in Natural Sciences (2022), First Prize of Beijing Science and Technology Progress Award (2022), Hong Kong Young Scientist Award (2018). Her publications have received a number of prestigious best paper awards and nominations, including IJCARS-MICCAI Best Paper Awards (2021 & 2024), MICCAI Best Paper Award Finalists (2023 & 2024), MICCAI Young Scientist Publication Award (2022), IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award in Medical Robotics (2021), IEEE TBME Prize Paper Award (2021), MedIA-MICCAI Best Paper Award (2017). Prof. Dou serves as General Co-Chair for MICCAI 2026, Program Co-Chair for MICCAI 2024, IPCAI 2023, MICCAI 2022, and MIDL 2022, and Area Chairs for NeurIPS, AAAI, ICRA, etc. She serves as the Associate Editor for international journals including IEEE TMI, MedIA, IEEE TBME, IEEE RAL, and npj Digital Surgery. Prof. Dou has received the Young Researcher Award (2024-25) and Exemplary Teaching Award (2022) at CUHK. Before joining CUHK faculty, she obtained Bachelor’s degree at Beihang University in 2014, Ph.D. degree at CUHK in 2018, and worked as a postdoc fellow at Imperial College London.
- Yonghao Long, Anran Lin, Derek Hang Chun Kwok, Lin Zhang, Zhenya Yang, Kejian Shi, Lei Song, Jiawei Fu, Hongbin Lin, Wang Wei, Kai Chen, Xiangyu Chu, Yang Hu, Hon Chi Yip, Philip Wai Yan Chiu, Peter Kazanzides, Russell H Taylor, Yunhui Liu, Zihan Chen, Zerui Wang, Samuel Kwok Wai Au, Qi Dou. Surgical Embodied Intelligence for Generalized Task Autonomy in Laparoscopic Robot-assisted Surgery. Science Robotics, 2025.
- Kai Chen, Yiyao Ma, Xingyu Lin, Stephen James, Jianshu Zhou, Yun-Hui Liu, Pieter Abbeel, Qi Dou. Vision Foundation Model Enables Generalizable Object Pose Estimation. Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024.
- Jianfeng Cao, Hon-Chi Yip, Yueyao Chen, Markus Scheppach, Xiaobei Luo, Hongzheng Yang, Ming Kit Cheng, Yonghao Long, Yueming Jin, Philip Wai-Yan Chiu, Yeung Yam, Helen Mei-Ling Meng, Qi Dou. Intelligent Surgical Workflow Recognition for Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection with Real-time Animal Study. Nature Communications, 2023.
- Yonghao Long, Jieying Wu, Bo Lu, Yueming Jin, Mathias Unberath, Yun-Hui Liu, Pheng Ann Heng, Qi Dou. Relational Graph Learning on Visual and Kinematics Embeddings for Accurate Gesture Recognition in Robotic Surgery. International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2021.
- Qi Dou, Lequan Yu, Hao Chen, Yueming Jin, Xin Yang, Jing Qin, Pheng Ann Heng. 3D Deeply Supervised Network for Automated Segmentation of Volumetric Medical Images. Medical Image Analysis, 2017.
- CUHK Young Researcher Award, 2024
- IEEE EMBS Early Career Achievement Award, 2023
- China Ministry of Education Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Award — Second-class Award in Natural Sciences, 2022
- IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award in Medical Robotics, 2021
- Hong Kong Institution of Science Young Scientist Award in Engineering Science, 2018