Biography
Prof. Gao is currently a world leading academic in AI in medical applications with the evidence of very high impact publications such as Information Fusion 2023 (IF17.564), Nature Cell Reports Medicine 2023 (IF16.988), Medical Image Analysis 2021 (IF8.79) and Artificial Intelligence in Medicine 2023 (IF7.5), working with elite scientific consortiums with world top 100 universities, e.g. University of Oxford, Imperial College and University of Warwick on joint research projects funded by Cancer Research UK (CRUK) and Asthma+Lung UK, and playing a leading role in enhancing research into teaching for global education by implementing diversity policies and inclusion with Women in STEM (WiS) MSc Scholarships, WiS post-doc Fellowships and Early Career Fellowships (ECFs), all funded by British council (BC) (PI).
Gao obtained her BSc degree in Applied Mathematics with 1st Class in Liaoning University China in 1984, MSc in Computer Graphics in Jilin University China 1989 and PhD in Computer Science at Loughborough University in Loughborough in 1994. She is currently a Fellow of Higher Education Academy (FHEA). After her PhD study, she worked as a post-doc researcher at Imperial College London (1995-1997) and University of Cambridge (1998-1999) respectively. She joined Middlesex University (MU) in 1999 and has been a Professor in Computer Vision and Imaging Science since 2013.