Dr Lei Li is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the School of Electronics & Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK. Before joining Southampton, She was a Postdoc at the Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK. She received her PhD degree from the School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2021 and bachelor’s degree in Department of Medical Information Engineering, Sichuan University, in 2016. During her PhD, she was also a visiting PhD student at Fudan University and King’s College London, respectively.
Her research is about AI for healthcare, specifically focusing on medical image analysis, multi-modal AI, and cardiac digital twins. She has already published more than 40 papers (h-index 17) in peer-reviewed journals and international conferences, including MedIA, IEEE TMI, MICCAI and FIMH. Some of these works have been selected as the most popular cited paper in MedIA and TMI. She is a Board Member of Women in MICCAI (WiM), Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Medical Artificial Intelligence and Guest Editor of Journal of Imaging. She has been selected as the Rising Star of Women in Engineering by Asian Deans’ Forum 2023. She has co-organized four MICCAI challenge events, including LAScarQS 2022, MyoPS 2020, MS-CMRSeg 2019, and MM-WHS 2017. She is a reviewer for many journals and conferences, including MedIA, IEEE TPAMI, IEEE TMI, IEEE TBME, Neurocomputing, Information Fusion, Neural Networks, ISBI, IPMI, MIDL, and MICCAI, etc.
