Ling Shao

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) and the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), 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. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. (D.Phil.) degrees from the University of Oxford in 2002 and 2005, respectively.

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. and subsequently as Global President and Chief AI Officer of Terminus Group, an international AIoT and smart city solutions and services provider.

Shao's research interests include computer vision, generative AI, multimodal AI, physical AI and AI for healthcare. Shao has been elected a Fellow of the IEEE,