Jianing Qiu - MBZUAI MBZUAI

Jianing Qiu

Assistant Professor of Personalized Medicine

Research Interests

Professor Qiu’s research addresses practical needs and challenges in medicine and healthcare through AI technologies. He is passionate about interdisciplinary research that creates insights and solutions for advancing global health innovation and medical breakthroughs, with the aim of realizing personalized medicine. His current research interests include agentic medical AI, medical foundation models, and embodied medical AI. Research: Jianing Qiu, et al. Large ai models in health informatics: Applications, challenges, and the future. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 2023. Jianing Qiu, et al. Development and validation of a multimodal multitask vision foundation model for generalist ophthalmic artificial intelligence. NEJM AI, 2024. Jianing Qiu, et al. LLM-based agentic systems in medicine and healthcare. Nature Machine Intelligence, 2024. Email

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Prior to joining MBZUAI, Professor Qiu was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Computing, Imperial College London in 2023, following a M.Sc. in Computing Science (Distinction), also from Imperial College London. During his Ph.D., he was affiliated with the Hamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery, Institute of Global Health Innovation, and had an internship at Tencent. Professor Qiu was guest editors for IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (Special Issue on Biomedical and Health Foundation Models) and Frontiers in Digital Health. He organized the first Agentic AI in Medicine workshop at MICCAI 2025 and was the key organizer of ICRA 2024, ECCV 2024, and CVPR 2025 workshops on wearable intelligence/embodied AI agents for healthcare. His work has been published in leading journals such as NEJM AI and Nature Machine Intelligence and covered by major news outlets such as South China Morning Post.
  • Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • Ph.D. in Computing Research from Imperial College London
  • Master of Science in Computing Science from Imperial College London
Most Innovative Student Paper Award (16th IEEE BSN Conference)

  • Jianing Qiu, et al. Large ai models in health informatics: Applications, challenges, and the future. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 2023.
  • Jianing Qiu, et al. Development and validation of a multimodal multitask vision foundation model for generalist ophthalmic artificial intelligence. NEJM AI, 2024.
  • Jianing Qiu, et al. LLM-based agentic systems in medicine and healthcare. Nature Machine Intelligence, 2024.

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