Biography:Ling Shao

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Ling Shao
Alma materUniversity of Science and Technology of China (B.Eng.)
University of Oxford (M.Sc. and Ph.D.)
AwardsIEEE Fellow (2021)[1]
IAPR Fellow (2018)[2]
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Vision
Machine Learning
Generative AI
Multimodal AI
AI for Healthcare
Vision and Language
InstitutionsInception Institute of Artificial Intelligence (IIAI)
Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI)
Doctoral advisorMichael Brady

Ling Shao (邵岭) is a British-Chinese scientist and entrepreneur in the field of artificial intelligence, best known for founding the Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence (IIAI) [3][4] and the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI),[5][6] in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates.

Education

Ling Shao received his B.Eng. degree in Electronic and Information Engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2001.[7] He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. (D.Phil.) degrees from the University of Oxford in 2002 and 2005, respectively.[8]

Career and Research

After completing his Ph.D., Ling Shao worked as a Senior Scientist at Philips Research in Eindhoven, the Netherlands from 2005 to 2009. From 2009 to 2017, he held senior academic positions at several British universities, including Senior Lecturer at the University of Sheffield and Chair Professor at the University of East Anglia.[9][7] From 2018 to 2021, he served as CEO of Group 42 (G42)'s research company, IIAI,[4] and simultaneously as Provost and Executive Vice-President of MBZUAI in Abu Dhabi, UAE.[5] Moreover, he was a founding member (employee #1) and the Chief Scientist of G42. He also worked shortly as a Chief Scientist at JD.com in Beijing, China in 2017, and as CTO and Chief Scientist at Saudi Data and AI Authority (SDAIA) in Riyadh, KSA in 2022. Since April 2022, Ling Shao has served as Chief Scientist and President,[10] and subsequently as Global President and Chief AI Officer[11] of Terminus Group, an international AIoT and smart city service provider.

Shao's research interests include computer vision, machine learning, generative AI, medical image analysis and vision and language.[12][9]

Awards and honors

In recognition of his scientific contributions to the UAE, he was awarded the Mohammed bin Rashid Medal for Scientific Distinguishment (the highest scientific honor in the UAE) by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the Prime-Minister and Vice-President of the UAE, and the Ruler of Dubai.[13] Shao has been elected a Fellow of the IEEE,[1] the IAPR,[2] the IET and the British Computer Society.[14]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "NEWLY ELEVATED FELLOW CLASS 2021". https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/fellows/2021-ieee-fellows-Class.pdf. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "IAPR Fellows, 2018". https://iapr.org/fellowsandawards/index.php?ar=2#2018. 
  3. ↑ "Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence". https://www.inceptioniai.org/members. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence: A Bold Initiative to Foster Global AI Research and Innovation". https://www.sciencemagazinedigital.org/sciencemagazine/21_september_2018/MobilePagedReplica.action?u1=20342703&pm=1&folio=1168#pg8. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "MBZUAI names AI scientist Shao as exec VP & provost". 12 May 2020. https://www.arabnews.com/node/1673271/corporate-news. 
  6. ↑ "MBZUAI appoints leading AI scientist Ling Shao as Executive Vice President and Provost". https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news-events/mbzuai-appoints-leading-ai-scientist-ling-shao-executive-vice-president-and-provost-1. 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "The AIM Lab (AI for Medical Imaging) member information". https://ivi.fnwi.uva.nl/aimlab/author/ling-shao/. 
  8. ↑ "USERN ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER". https://usern.tums.ac.ir/User/CV/Ling_Shao. 
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 "The dblp computer science bibliography". https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pid/75/1281.html. 
  10. ↑ "Terminus Group Appoints Chief Scientist, Ling Shao, Strengthening AIoT Deployment". April 22, 2022. https://www.nasdaq.com/press-release/terminus-group-appoints-chief-scientist-ling-shao-strengthening-aiot-deployment-2022. 
  11. ↑ "The AI Philosophy of Dr. Ling Shao". September 29, 2025. https://techxmedia.com/en/the-ai-philosophy-of-dr-ling-shao/. 
  12. ↑ "Google Scholar". https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=z84rLjoAAAAJ&hl=en. 
  13. ↑ "Mohammed bin Rashid honours winners of the 4th MBR Medal for Scientific Distinction". https://www.dmi.gov.ae/content/corporate/en-ae/programs/41/2304104.html. 
  14. ↑ "IEEE Xplore author information". https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/author/38265369400. 




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