Dr Xiao Gu is a Senior Research Associate in Medical AI at the University of Oxford and a Junior Research Fellow at Kellogg College. He also holds an honorary research position with the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, supporting close collaboration between algorithm development and clinical practice.

Prior to this, Xiao received his PhD and Master’s training from the Imperial College London, and his undergraduate degree from Fudan University, at both of which he received several competitive awards, including the Dean’s Prize and National Scholarship.

Xiao’s research focuses on AI for medical sensing, with particular emphasis on wearable and ambient sensing intelligence for digital health, aiming to develop scalable, accessible, and generalisable solutions for real-world healthcare applications.

His research has been recognised through over 50 peer-reviewed publications in leading venues across AI, robotics, biomedical engineering, and computer vision, including Nature Machine Intelligence, Communications Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Medical Image Analysis, ECCV, BMVC, ICRA, and IROS. 

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