Qing Liu

Contact Information

     Office: B273, Forskningsparken                     Voice:   +358-417 922 301

     The Machine Learning Group E-mail: qing.liu@uit.no

     UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway                 

Work Experience       

      Feb. 2026-, Associate Professor, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway

Feb. 2024 -, Docent (Adjunct Professor), University of Oulu, Finland      

      Sep. 2023 -, Academy Research Fellow, University of Oulu, Finland

      Oct. 2022 - Aug. 2023, Associate Professor, Central South University, China

Sep. 2019 - Sep. 2022, Lecturer, Central South University, China

Jul. 2017 -  Jun. 2019, Postdoc researcher, Central South University, China

Research Interests

    Computer Vision, Medical Image Analysis

News

• 🎉Qing and Dr. Joonas Wirkkala have received the New Research Initiative funding (NRI) from 6GESS (🎈🎈🎈🎈)

• ✈️ Qing will relocate to a cooler city and start an Associate Professor position at the Machine Learning Group, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, in February (😎❄️😎)

• 🎉One paper titled "Controllable Localized Face Anonymization Via Diffusion Inpainting" accepted by ICASSP 2026 (🎈🎈Congratulations to Ali🎈🎈)

• ✈️ Qing will join the VI Days and share her research

• 📢 Call for paper: Special Issue on Next Generation AI for Eye Healthcare — From Bench to Bedside for IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics , submission deadline: 31 March, 2026

• 🎉One paper titled "PSScreen: Partially Supervised Multiple Retinal Disease Screening" accepted by BMVC 2025 (🎈🎈Congratulations to Boyi🎈🎈) 

Professional Activities

• • ELLIS member  since April 2025

  • IEEE senior member since July 2024

  • Associate editor: Image and Vision Computing (Jul. 2023-), Computer Vision and Image Understanding (Dec. 2024)

  • Area chairs: ICASSP2026&2025&2024, BMVC 2025

  • PC members: IJCAI 2025

  • Publication chairs: ICIPMC 2025&2024

  • Conference special session co-organiser:  ICASSP2024 Special Session on Learning with Incomplete Medical Data (together with Robert Jenssen and Guoying Zhao please see details here )

Group Members

• PhD students

  • Ali Salar on face adversarial attack (Feb. 2024, co-supervise with Prof. Guoying Zhao)

• • Boyi Zheng on partially supervised retinal image analysis and disease detection (Jan. 2024, primary supervisor)

  • Mohamed Tarek Mohamed Saber A. Elhabebe  on Fair AI towards fundus image reading systems (Sept. 2024, primary supervisor)

• Visiting researchers

  • Xiaoyun Zhang (Assistant professor, Hunan University of Technology)

• Master students

  • Yichen Hu on multi-modal retinal image analysis (Central South University, 2023.09-2026.05) 

Alumni

• Kejuan Yue on multi-modal ophthalmic data learning (Aug. 2024-July 2025, primary supervisor, co-supervisor: Tapio Seppanen)

• Sabin Bhatta on CLIP-guided lesion segmentation and diabetic retinopathy grading with retina images (Master, University of Oulu, 2024.02-2025.6, co-supervise with Prof. Guoying Zhao)

• Yufan Liu on incremental learning (Central South University, 2022.09-2025.05)