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Shuang Qian

Postdoctoral researcher · Imperial College London

Dr Shuang Qian received her undergraduate degree in Electronic and Electrical engineering at the University of Birmingham, UK, before completing a PhD degree at the same university. Her PhD project is about modelling the cardiac electrodynamics in a larval zebrafish heart incorporating detailed cellular arrangements and intercellular connectivity. Since joining CEMRG in 2020, her work focused on assessing and optimising electrotherapy to improve the function of implanted devices by constructing and validating computational models, based on clinical images and electrophysiological recorded data. Her current research interest also includes integrating advanced machine learning approaches with models for direct applications in current clinical practice and making digital twins from data sets in the Biobank that evolve through time.

Research themes

In the news

  1. Thousands of cardiac digital twins give new insight into conduction and repolarisation

Papers

First author 3

  1. Shuang Qian, Devran Ugurlu, Elliot Fairweather, Richard E. Jones, Hassan Zaidi, Sanjay Prasad, Brian P. Halliday, …, Cristobal Rodero, Abdul Qayyum, …, Martin Bishop, Steven Niederer

    In silico trials for sex-specific patient inclusion criteria in cardiac resynchronization therapy

    npj Digital Medicine, 2026

  2. Shuang Qian, Devran Ugurlu, Elliot Fairweather, Laura Dal Toso, Yu Deng, Marina Strocchi, Ludovica Cicci, Richard E. Jones, Hassan Zaidi, …, Martin Bishop, Steven Niederer

    Developing cardiac digital twin populations powered by machine learning provides electrophysiological insights in conduction and repolarization

    Nature Cardiovascular Research, 2025

  3. S Qian, D Ugurlu, E Fairweather, M Strocchi, L Dal Toso, Y Deng, A Young, M Bishop, …, S Niederer

    Cardiac digital twins of the adult population: linking electrophysiological functions to anatomy

    EP Europace, 2023

Middle author 8

  1. Mohammad Kayyali, Ana Mincholé, Martin Bishop, Hassan Zaidi, Shuang Qian, Steven Niederer, Rachel Bastiaenen, Chris Miles, Pablo Lamata, …

    Posterior Electrical Axis Deviation Is Associated With Future Development of Left Bundle Branch Block

    JACC Advances, 2026

  2. Christopher David Burr, Shuang Qian, Peter Winter, Tim Chico, Camila Rangel Smith, David Wagg, Steven Alexander Niederer

    Realising the digital twin: a thematic review and analysis of the ethical, legal, and social issues for digital twins in healthcare

    AI & Society, 2026

  3. Bei Zhou, Maximilian Balmus, Cesare Corrado, Ludovica Cicci, Shuang Qian, Steven A. Niederer

    TorchCor: High-performance cardiac electrophysiology simulations with the finite element method on GPUs

    SoftwareX, 2026

  4. Devran Ugurlu, Shuang Qian, Elliot Fairweather, Charlene Mauger, Bram Ruijsink, Laura Dal Toso, …, Marina Strocchi, …, Steven Niederer, Martin Bishop

    Cardiac digital twins at scale from MRI: Open tools and representative models from ~ 55000 UK Biobank participants

    PLoS ONE, 2025

  5. Mohammad Kayyali, Ana Mincholé, Shuang Qian, Alistair Young, Devran Ugurlu, Elliot Fairweather, Steven Niederer, John Whitaker, Martin Bishop, …

    Anatomical-electrical coupling of cardiac axes: Definitions and population variability for advancing personalised ECG interpretation

    PLoS Computational Biology, 2025

  6. Marina Strocchi, Rosie K. Barrows, Cristobal Rodero, José Alonso Solís-Lemus, Shuang Qian, Ludovica Cicci, Abdul Qayyum, Devran Ugurlu, Christoph M. Augustin, Matthias A. F. Gsell, Edward J. Vigmond, Gernot Plank, Steven A. Niederer

    Multi-scale Whole-Heart Electromechanics Modeling to Link Cellular, Tissue and Systemic Properties to Cardiac Biomarkers in the Diabetic Male and Female Heart

    Lecture notes in computer science, 2025

  7. Mohammad Kayyali, Ana Mincholé, Shuang Qian, Alistair Young, Devran Ugurlu, Elliot Fairweather, Steven Niederer, John Whitaker, Martin Bishop, …

    Cardiac Anatomical and Electrical Axes: Proposed Definitions and Interplay

    Computing in cardiology, 2024

  8. Manisha Sahota, Fernando Campos, Shuang Qian, John Whitaker, Steven E. Williams, Matthijs Cluitmans, Steven Niederer, Martin Bishop

    Investigating the Influence of Parameters on Electrogram Morphology Using Gaussian Process Emulators

    Computing in cardiology, 2024