Dr. Lixu Gu is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi, Japan in 1999. Thereafter, he moved to Canada and worked at Robarts Research Institute for three years in Image-Guided Surgery and Therapy, where he was responsible for the research and software development for the medical image analysis. In 2003, Dr. Gu became a faculty member of SJTU Department of Computer Science, where he founded and led the Laboratory of Image-Guided Surgery and Therapy (IGST). He became a Professor of Med-X research Institute in 2009. Dr. Gu is the author of over 150 papers on related research area. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and the social chair and PC member of the 27th IEEE EMBS conference in Shanghai. He obtained the Best Poster Award in the 17th Congress of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS) in London, UK, in 2003. He serves as an Associate Editor for both IEEE Trans. On Information Technology in Biomedicine and International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery. He is also active in the international research groups of ISBI, MIAR, ITAB and EMBC. His research interests include: Pattern recognition; computer vision; medical image processing; computer graphics; virtual reality; and image-guided surgery and therapy.