President, Zhongshan Opthalmology Center, China

Prof. Haotian Lin is the Director, Professor, Primary Investigator, PhD mentor of Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center and Professor, PhD mentor of School of Biomedical Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University. He is the Director of Department of Genetics and biological informatics, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yatsen University.

He is currently the Director of Asia Office of Afro-Asian Council of Ophthalmology (AACO-AO), the Deputy Chairman of Intelligent Medical Special Committee of Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI), the Executive Vice President and Secretary of Guangdong Association of Young scientists. Prof. Lin was awarded as the “the 24th China Youth May Fourth Medal”, the winner of “2021 Wu Wenjun Science and Technology Award for Artificial Intelligence”, picked as the “National Youth and Middle-aged Technological Innovation Leaders”.

He is the Chief Scientist of the National Key R&D Program of China, working on the medical big data, research and development of intelligent diagnosis and treatment technology, and its application in eye diseases. He led over 10 projects like Major Research Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China. He has edited 4 books as the editor-in-chief, co-written 6 monographs and published more than 150 SCI papers as the first or the corresponding author, including Nature, Science, Lancet, BMJ, Nature Medicine, Nature Biomedical Engineering, PLoS Medicine, Lancet Discovery Science, etc. He also developed a number of medical equipment and software that successfully applied to clinic. He owned more than 30 patents from China and other countries.