Rong Xu is a Professor at Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China and the University of Science and Technology of China. He is a National‑level High‑level Talent, Distinguished Expert of the Special‑expert Committee of the All‑China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, and Visiting Researcher at Waseda University. His research focuses on cutting‑edge exploration and systematic development of three major fields: intelligent medical image analysis, surgical navigation systems, and brain‑computer interface technologies. He is committed to building an integrated interdisciplinary research framework of “intelligent image interpretation — intraoperative precise navigation — neural signal decoding and modulation”, to advance emerging research directions including large‑scale medical imaging models, precise interventional navigation, and closed‑loop neural engineering. Dr. Xu received his Ph.D. in Information Science from Waseda University, Japan. With nearly two decades of research in intelligent image recognition and understanding, his work covers complex scenarios such as medical imaging, industrial imagery and multimedia images. He has worked for multiple Fortune Global 500 companies, serving as a Researcher at KDDI Research, Japan, and Senior Researcher in the AI Division of Yazaki Corporation. He boasts extensive experience in industrial R&D and research translation. He has published more than 60 academic papers in artificial intelligence, medical image analysis, intelligent image recognition and other fields, and holds 6 authorized Japanese invention patents.