Dr. YingLiang Ma is the head of the Vision Computing Research Group. He has a PhD in Computer Science from University of Manchester and he is the president of the special interest group, Cardiac-SIG, in MICCAI.  Dr. Ma’s research areas mainly lie in the development of novel computer vision and computational geometric algorithms as well as applications in medical image analysis, image-guided surgery and procedure risk assessment. As a Principal Investigator (PI) or Co-PI, Dr Ma has been conducting research in relation to Computer Vision/Machine Learning/AI and parallel computing funded by EPSRC and NIHR. He has been invited to give a number of talks in national and international institutions.

Grants

1. MRC impact fund (University of East Anglia, PI), Value: £44,669, Duration: 01/08/2024 - 31/07/2025 

2. EPSRC Grant (EP/X023826/1, PI). Value: £279,504. Duration: 01/10/2023 - 30/09/2025. Title: Three-dimensional hybrid guidance system for cardiac interventional procedures.

3. NIHR grant (II-LB-0814-20001, Co-I). Value: £400,719. Duration: 01/10/2015 - 30/09/2018. Title: MRI-augmented guidance for X-ray fluoroscopic paediatric cardiovascular interventions.

4. EU - ERASMUS+ (Co-I). Value: €237,940. Duration: 01/10/2020 – 31/12/2022. Title: Virtual Reality for Augmenting Creativity and Effectiveness of School Training

Membership

President of the special interest group, Cardiac-SIG, in MICCAI 

EPSRC Peer-review College

European Society of Cardiology, Working Group: e-Cardiology

Role

Director of Innovation, School of Computing Sciences

Head of Vision and Graphics Research Group