Prof. Qiu is a global STEM scholar and Professor at the Department of Health Technology and Informatics at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She is also an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University. Her past roles include Deputy Head for Research & Enterprises at the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Director for the BME Innovation Center at the NUS Suzhou Research Institute, a part of the National University of Singapore, Master of Eusoff Hall at National University of Singapore.

Specializing in computational analyses, Prof. Qiu is deeply committed to understanding the origin of individual health differences throughout a lifespan. Her team develops new technologies in medical data analysis deep learning to leverage complex and informative datasets that include disease phenotypes, neuroimaging, and genetics to further her research. Her team has high-impact publications in Nature, Nature Neuroscience, Nature Mental Health, American Journal of Psychiatry, Biological Psychiatry, IEEE Transactions in Medical Imaging, Medical Image Analysis, etc.

Prof. Qiu is recognized as a fellow of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping and had served as the Treasurer at the Council of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping. Prof. Qiu serves as an editor for esteemed scientific publications such as Neuroimage, Imaging Neuroscience, Frontiers in Neuroscience, and IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics.