Professor Xin Gao is Special Advisor to the Vice President for Academic Affairs, Chair Professor, and Director of the Centre of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence-driven Therapeutics at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU). He is also Professor of Computer Science at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia, where he serves as Co-Chair of the Center of Excellence in Smart Health, Chair of the Bioinformatics Platform, and Principal Investigator of the Structural and Functional Bioinformatics Research Group.
He received his bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Tsinghua University, China, in 2004 and his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo, Canada, in 2009. From October 2009 to September 2010, he was a Lane Fellow at the Lane Center for Computational Biology at Carnegie Mellon University in the United States.
Professor Gao’s research focuses on the interface between AI and biomedicine. He is a world-renowned bioinformatics and AI expert, particularly known for developing innovative AI solutions for drug discovery, biomedical imaging, and disease diagnosis.
Professor Gao has extensive industry experience. He is co-founder of Syneron Bio and NANOFAI. He has served as the scientific advisor to a number of companies and organisations, such as the Saudi Food and Drug Authority in Saudi Arabia, Bioaster in France, DermAssure in USA, Myant in Canada, BioMap in China, and Proteinea in Egypt.
He has published more than 470 papers, including more than 40 papers at Nature/Cell/Science and their family journals, with a total citation count of over 20,000 and an h-index of 76. He is the leading inventor of over 60 international patents, and has been the principal investigator on research grants totalling more than 40 million USD. He is the associate editor of 11 prestigious journals and the guest editor-in-chief of three special issues. He has been invited to review research grant proposals for various funding agencies, such as the Swiss National Science Foundation, Italian Ministry of Health, Israel Science Foundation, Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong, UK Research and Innovation-BBSRC, The Netherlands eScience Center, The Dutch Research Council, the National Science Centre of Poland, the Ministry of Health of Saudi Arabia, the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) of Singapore, and Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF).
Thirty-three of his former students and postdoctoral researchers are now professors at leading universities around the world, including the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, the University of Benevento in Italy, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, City University of Hong Kong, Tsinghua University, Westlake University, Beijing Institute of Technology, Southern University of Science and Technology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), Shandong University, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Lanzhou University, Anhui University, Hangzhou Dianzi University, and Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence in the United Arab Emirates.
