Assoc Prof Liang Zhong is a senior clinician innovator and principal investigator working in the National Heart Centre Singapore (NHCS), an Associate Professor with Duke-NUS Medical School and Department of Biomedical Engineering at National University of Singapore. He is also the Director of College of Healthcare Engineering (CHE), Co-director of Cardiovascular Systems Imaging and Artificial Intelligence (CVS.AI) Lab, and the Head of Cardiovascular Bioengineering and Technologies at NHRIS. His research focus span across cardiovascular imaging with machine learning, deep learning, clinical AI applications, cardiovascular mechanics and physiology and digital twins. He is also involved in several international consensus reporting guidelines in 4D flow cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR).
To date, Liang has published >200 publications on peer reviewed, book chapters, educational articles and conference abstracts. This includes Nature Review Cardiology, JACC CVI, Radiology, EHJ CVI, Lancet Regional Health, JCMR and etc. As of January 2026 (Google Scholar), his current H index: 41, i-10 index: 131 with total citations of >6500. Dr Zhong has received a total of 50M research grants, in which 15M as principal investigator, and 35M as co-investigators on cardiovascular engineering and AI in cardiovascular health.
Dr Zhong serves in several leadership positions at the different societies, including the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology and International Society of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (ISMRM). He also serves in deputy editor and editorial boards in the top-tiered medical and engineering journals, including IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Journal of American College in Cardiology Asia, Engineering & Computing in Medicine & Biology.
For the accomplishment, Dr Zhong received many prestigious scientific awards, including Young Investigator Award of the Singapore Cardiac Society (2011 & 2012), Young Investigator Award of the ASEAN Federation of Cardiology (2012), Sejong Medical Award from Asia-Pacific Pediatric Cardiac Society (2012), “Huanghe Bei” Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition Award (2015), and GCEO excellent research award (2021), Senior Clinician Innovator Award (2024).