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Jens Rittscher

Jens Rittscher is an Oxford professor who applies computer vision and statistical learning to biomedical imaging and computational pathology. After earning an Oxford DPhil in 2001, he led GE Global Research's Computer Vision Laboratory before joining Oxford as a Senior Research Fellow in 2013. At Oxford, he became a professor and research-group leader, chaired the IEEE ISBI Steering Committee, and co-founded Ground Truth Labs. His 2025 AdaFusion work combined pathology foundation models, and his 2026 GenST paper predicted spatial gene expression from histology; as of October 2026, he is Professor of Engineering Science at Oxford and leads the £5 million 3DxN imaging and AI programme.

Now at
Ground Truth Labs, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and Harris Manchester College
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Timeline

  1. 2001

    Oxford DPhil and Bonn diploma

    He earns an Oxford DPhil in 2001 for research on human motion recognition under Andrew Blake. During his doctoral studies, he works in Oxford's Visual Dynamics Group as a Marie Curie Fellow; he also holds a Diploma in Mathematics and Computer Science from Bonn.

  2. By 2013

    GE and Rensselaer roles

    At GE Global Research, he joins in 2001 after his DPhil and leads the Computer Vision Laboratory in Niskayuna before taking a Senior Research Fellow appointment at Oxford in 2013. Before Oxford, he also holds an adjunct assistant professorship at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. His work combines computer vision, probabilistic modelling and statistical learning across video annotation, visual surveillance, and biomedical imaging.

  3. 2013–2018

    Oxford professorship and group

    Oxford appoints him Senior Research Fellow in 2013 through a joint appointment between its Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Nuffield Department of Medicine. He becomes Professor of Engineering Science in 2014 and group leader at the Oxford Big Data Institute in 2018.

  4. 2018–2021

    IEEE and EPSRC leadership

    He chairs the IEEE ISBI Steering Committee from 2018 to 2020 and joins the UK EPSRC Healthcare Technologies Strategic Advisory Team in 2021.

  5. 2019

    Founding Ground Truth Labs

    In 2019, he co-founds Ground Truth Labs to commercialise computational-pathology research from his laboratory. He serves as its co-founder and CSO.

  6. 2024–2027

    Charité visiting fellowship

    In May 2024, Stiftung Charité awards him a visiting fellowship funded through 2027. A planned Charité working group brings Oxford and Berlin researchers together to combine imaging methods for disease diagnosis, classification, and prognosis.

  7. 2025

    AdaFusion pathology models

    In 2025, he coauthors AdaFusion, a prompt-guided method that adaptively combines information from multiple pathology foundation models. Its evaluations span treatment-response prediction, tumour grading, and spatial gene-expression inference.

  8. 2026

    GenST predicts spatial expression

    In 2026, he coauthors GenST, a generative cross-modal method that predicts spatial transcriptomics from histology images by aligning latent spaces for the two modalities. The paper appears in the Proceedings of the MICCAI Workshop on Computational Pathology.

  9. As of October 2026

    Oxford professor and 3DxN lead

    He is Professor of Engineering Science and a Professorial Research Fellow at Oxford, with a joint appointment between the Institute of Biomedical Engineering and the Nuffield Department of Medicine. In 2026, he leads the £5 million 3DxN programme to combine three-dimensional tissue imaging, gene-expression analysis, and AI for new insights into health and disease.

Career

  1. Since 2021Engineering and Physical Sciences Research CouncilMember, Healthcare Technologies Strategic Advisory Team
  2. NowGround Truth LabsCSO
  3. Since 2013Harris Manchester CollegeSenior Research Fellow
  4. Since 2014University of OxfordProfessor of Engineering Science, Group Leader, Big Data Institute
  5. 2006–2012Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteAdjunct Professor in Computer Science, Adjunct Professor in Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering
  6. 2001–2013GE Global ResearchManager, Computer Vision Laboratory, Senior Scientist
  7. Charité - Universitätsmedizin BerlinVisiting Fellow

Education

  1. 2001University of OxfordDPhil
  2. 1997University of BonnDiploma in Mathematics and Computer Science

From the biography.

Checked career sources: tools.ndm.ox.ac.uk, hmc.ox.ac.uk, eng.ox.ac.uk, groundtruthlabs.com, berlin-university-alliance.de, bihealth.org.

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  1. Jens Rittscher - People - Engineering Science Department eng.ox.ac.uk. Checked 27 October 2026.
  2. Professor Jens Rittscher | Harris Manchester College, the University of Oxford college for mature students hmc.ox.ac.uk. Checked 27 October 2026.
  3. Our Team | GTL groundtruthlabs.com. Checked 27 October 2026.
  4. Major leap for Oxford and Berlin in Joint Medical Research: Stiftung Charité awards a Visiting Fellowship to Professor Jens Rittscher from the University of Oxford • The Oxford Berlin Research Partnership • Berlin University Alliance berlin-university-alliance.de. Checked 27 October 2026.
  5. AdaFusion: Prompt-Guided Inference with Adaptive Fusion of Pathology Foundation Models arxiv.org. Checked 27 October 2026.
  6. GenST: A Generative Cross-Modal Model for Predicting Spatial Transcriptomics from Histology Images proceedings.mlr.press. Checked 27 October 2026.
  7. 3DxN - Better understanding of disease through multi-modal imaging eng.ox.ac.uk. Checked 27 October 2026.