Xu Chen is an AI computer scientist in Cardiac AI/Digital Twins at the newly formed Digital Environment Research Institute (DERI) at Queen Mary’s University, London. His primary research interests and experience include computer vision, deep learning and medical image computing, with extensive experience in multi-modality cardiac imaging.
Prior to joining DERI in 2024, he played a key role at the University of Cambridge for a British Heart Foundation-funded project, focusing on developing AI-based diagnostic tools for coronary artery disease from intravascular OCT scans. Earlier industrial appointments include AIMES, where he joined a multi-disciplinary team of research scientists from UCL and cardiologists for AI-based myocardial infarction detection in MRI scans.
He obtained his PhD in AI for medical image analysis from the University of Liverpool in 2022, with his thesis focused on AI in endovascular aneurysm repair for abdominal aortic aneurysms from X-ray scans. He also holds a master’s degree in AI from the University of Manchester (2017) and a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (2015).
Xu is a visiting scholar at the Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge.
