PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Jia Gu

Also known as 辜嘉

Jia Gu is a professor at City University of Macau who works on medical AI, computer vision and image-guided robots. Trained in biomedical engineering at Southeast University and holding a 2005 doctorate from the University of Rennes 1, they worked from 2008 to 2017 as a professor and doctoral supervisor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology. Their coauthored work from 2018 includes a convolutional neural network for liver segmentation and fastp, a FASTQ preprocessor that became their most-cited paper. As chief scientist in Zhuhai from 2017 and deputy director of the Suzhou Institute of Advanced Technology until 2024, they received the National Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Award in 2019. Since 2024, they are a professor in the Faculty of Data Science at City University of Macau and academic lead of its Hengqin Advanced Research Institute, and in 2026 they became a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology.

Now at
City University of Macau and Joint Lab of City University of Macau and the Chinese Academy of Sciences

Timeline

  1. 1999–2005

    Biomedical engineering to a Rennes PhD

    They earn a bachelor's degree in 1999 and a master's degree in 2001, both in biomedical engineering at Southeast University in China. In 2005, they complete a doctorate in signal information processing at the University of Rennes 1 in France.

  2. 2008

    Patent on endoscope video diagnosis

    In 2008, they and R. Wolters are named on the US patent application "Computer aided diagnosis using video from endoscopes".

  3. 2008–2017

    Professor at CAS in Shenzhen

    From 2008 to 2017, they work as a professor and doctoral supervisor at the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

  4. 2017–2019

    Chief scientist in Zhuhai

    They serve as chief scientist of the Zhuhai Institute of Advanced Technology (CAS) from 2017 to 2019.

  5. 2018

    A liver-segmentation CNN and fastp

    In 2018, they coauthor fastp, an ultra-fast all-in-one FASTQ preprocessor published in Bioinformatics, which becomes their most-cited paper. A superpixel-based, boundary-sensitive convolutional neural network for automated liver segmentation, published in Physics in Medicine & Biology, also carries their name in 2018.

  6. 2019

    The Wu Wenjun AI Award

    In 2019, they receive the National Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Award as first principal contributor.

  7. 2019–2024

    Deputy director in Suzhou

    From 2019 to 2024, they serve as deputy director of the Suzhou Institute of Advanced Technology (CAS). In 2020, they coauthor a deep-learning study that detects cervical precancerous lesions in colposcopy images.

  8. Since 2024

    Professor at City University of Macau

    They join the Faculty of Data Science at City University of Macau as a professor in 2024, with research on computer vision, medical AI, medical imaging and image-guided robots. They are academic lead of the Hengqin Advanced Research Institute and director of the Joint Lab of City University of Macau and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and in June 2024 they lecture at Minzu University of China Hainan International College on computer vision and AI in biomedicine, including the U-Net network. They coauthor LC-YOLOmatch for laparoscopic scene segmentation in 2025, and in 2026 they become a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and coauthor a deep-learning controller for a two-segment continuum robot.

Career

  1. Since 2024City University of MacauProfessor
  2. Since 2024Joint Lab of City University of Macau and the Chinese Academy of SciencesDirector
  3. 2008–2024Chinese Academy of SciencesProfessor and doctoral supervisor, Chief Scientist

Education

  1. 2005Université Rennes 1Doctorate
  2. 2001Southeast UniversityMaster's degree
  3. 1999Southeast UniversityBachelor's degree

From the biography.

  1. Universities keep AI researchers for a median of 6 years, compared with 2 years at frontier labsIncludes Chinese Academy of Sciences. Across 15,811 dated work stays (6,529 people), median role tenure runs from 6 years at universities to 2 years at frontier labs. We compare all five organization types, starting decades from the 1970s to the 2020s, and the organizations that keep people longest.
  2. People shaping AI work at a median of 3 organizations over a career: 3 for university starters and institute and lab starters, versus 2 for company startersIncludes Chinese Academy of Sciences. Across 6,853 people shaping AI with a dated work role, we estimate a median of 3 parent organizations over a career (mean 3.6), comparing role groups, starting sectors and starting decades from the 1950s to 2020–2026.
  3. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974Includes Chinese Academy of Sciences. We estimate where the people shaping AI worked when their most-cited papers appeared: the company share was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974, and Google led all organizations in 2020–2024.
  4. Google has the highest combined h-index among AI organizationsIncludes Chinese Academy of Sciences. We estimate that Google holds the highest combined h-index at 8,016, while universities account for 73% of the deduplicated total across AI organizations.

Colleagues

People with dated positions at the same organization in the same years.

Sources and credits

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  1. Professor Jia Gu - Faculty of Data Science fds.cityu.edu.mo. Checked 21 October 2026.
  2. Jia Gu - Google Scholar scholar.google.com. Checked 21 October 2026.
  3. 辜嘉 教授 - 澳門城市大學 數據科學學院 fds.cityu.edu.mo. Checked 21 October 2026.
  4. Jia Gu | alphaXiv alphaxiv.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  5. Vice Dean Wenjian Liu leads a delegation to Hainan for academic exchange and discussion on AI driven future development in the era of digital intelligence - Faculty of Data Science fds.cityu.edu.mo. Checked 21 October 2026.