Shengxian Tu

Dr. Shengxian Tu is a distinguished professor at the School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the director of Cardiovascular Innovative Instrument and Intelligent Computing lab at biomedical instrument institute and director of Shanghai Jiao Tong University-Pulse Medical imaging joint lab. He is also a guest professor at Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He received his master degree in Biomedical Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2008. After that, he joined the Medis Applied Research group as a scientific researcher, while at the same time pursuing a PhD degree at the Division of Image Processing (LKEB), Department of Radiology, Leiden University Medical Center, the Netherlands. He graduated cum laude in February 2012. He joined Shanghai Jiao Tong University as a Faculty in 2014. He is the inventor of several patents including the methods for computation of fractional flow reserve from imaging data (QFR, OFR and UFR), which are being used for clinical decisions or studies by a number of hospitals in Europe, Asia, and America. Over the past few years he has published several articles in the leading cardiovascular journals such as Lancet, Eur Heart J, J Am Coll Cardiol, J Am Coll Cardiol Interv, and Circ Cardiovasc Interv. In 2014 he was accepted as a Fellow of European Society of Cardiology (FESC) and in 2017 he was accepted as a Fellow of American College of Cardiology (FACC). Currently, he serves as an associate editor of the International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging and section editor of JACC: Asia. So far, he has coauthored more than 100 peer-reviewed papers and 30 patents.