Dr Xiao Liu is a junior doctor in ophthalmology and a clinical researcher University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust. She is also an honorary research fellow under the Artificial Intelligence hub at Moorfields Eye Hospital Reading Centre in London. She is currently completing her doctorate at the University of Birmingham, which aims to validate a novel imaging-based technique to quantify inflammation in the vitreous gel of the eye. Her interests in health data research are around diagnostic test evaluation (including algorithms as tests), transparency of reporting (particularly the development of reporting standards for machine learning in clinical studies and implementation of complex interventions into existing clinical pathways. She is also part of the INSIGHT Health Data Research Hub for Eye Health and has recently joined the HDR UK Early Career Researcher Committee.