PeopleofSuperintelligence

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Jie Tian

Also known as 田捷

Jie Tian is a medical imaging scientist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences who applies pattern recognition and artificial intelligence to fingerprints, molecular imaging and cancer radiomics. After earning a PhD in artificial intelligence from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1993, he became a professor at its Institute of Automation in 1997 and, in 2005, coauthored the paper introducing MITK, a 3D medical imaging toolkit. He was the first president of the Chinese Society for Molecular Imaging from 2010 to 2017, and the International Association for Pattern Recognition named him a Fellow in 2014 for contributions to fingerprint recognition and medical imaging. In 2018, he became director of Beihang University's Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Big Data-Based Precision Medicine, and in 2021 he coauthored a book on radiomics, AI and medical big data. He is the founder and chief scientist of the CAS Key Laboratory of Molecular Imaging.

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Timeline

  1. 1993

    A doctorate in artificial intelligence

    He earns a PhD in artificial intelligence, with honors, from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1993.

  2. 1997–2002

    Professor at the Institute of Automation

    He becomes a professor at the Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1997. In 2002, he receives the National Outstanding Young Scientist Research Fund; his research covers bio-information, medical image processing and analysis, and pattern recognition.

  3. 2005–2008

    The MITK and 3DMed platform

    In 2005, he is corresponding author of a Journal of Software paper introducing MITK, the Medical Imaging ToolKit, an integrated toolkit that combines 3D medical image segmentation, registration and visualization. In 2008, he and colleagues at the Institute of Automation present MITK and 3DMed as an open, freely available platform, with 3DMed as a MITK-based application system built on a plug-in framework.

  4. 2010–2017

    Founding a molecular imaging society

    As a founding member of the Chinese Society for Molecular Imaging, he serves as its first president from 2010 to 2017. He becomes an IEEE Fellow in 2010 and an IAMBE Fellow in 2012. New optical imaging models and reconstruction algorithms from his work support in vivo bioluminescence, fluorescence molecular and Cerenkov luminescence tomography.

  5. 2014

    IAPR fellowship for fingerprint work

    In 2014, the International Association for Pattern Recognition names him a Fellow for contributions to fingerprint recognition and medical imaging.

  6. 2018

    Precision medicine center at Beihang

    In 2018, he becomes director of the Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Big Data-Based Precision Medicine at Beihang University. He also explores new artificial intelligence strategies for quantitative medical image analysis and builds several open-access software packages.

  7. 2021

    A book on radiomics

    He develops AI strategies for radiomics and helps establish a standardized radiomics database with data from more than 100,000 cancer patients at over 50 hospitals in China. In June 2021, Elsevier publishes Radiomics and Its Clinical Application: Artificial Intelligence and Medical Big Data, which he writes with Di Dong, Zhenyu Liu and Jingwei Wei.

  8. As of October 2026

    Chief scientist for molecular imaging

    He is the founder and chief scientist of the CAS Key Laboratory of Molecular Imaging, where his work spans multimodality molecular imaging and medical image AI. Invited articles by him appear in Nature Reviews Bioengineering in 2023 and Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology in 2024.

Career

  1. Since 1997Chinese Academy of SciencesProfessor, Founder
  2. From 2018Beihang UniversityDirector
  3. 2010–2017Chinese Society for Molecular ImagingFirst President

Education

  1. 1993Chinese Academy of SciencesPhD

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. Radiomics and Its Clinical Application - 1st Edition | Elsevier Shop shop.elsevier.com. Checked 20 October 2026.
  2. Jie Tian – The Conversation theconversation.edu.au. Checked 20 October 2026.
  3. Dr. Jie Tian — Plone site tc.ifac-control.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  4. Design and implementation of MITK for 3D medical image processing and analyzing - Beihang University research.buaa.edu.cn. Checked 20 October 2026.
  5. MITK and 3DMed : An Integrated Platform Applicable for the Development of Computer Assisted Intervention Systems insight-journal.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  6. PEOPLE mitk.net.cn. Checked 20 October 2026.
  7. Chronological List of IAPR Fellows – International Association for Pattern Recognition iapr.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  8. The Next-Level Precision Medicine in Cancer Management Using Artificial Intelligence - Beihang University research.buaa.edu.cn. Checked 20 October 2026.