Qingguo Xie received his B. Sc. in Industrial Automation from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) in 1994, M. Sc. in Industrial Automation from Dalian University of Technology in 1997, and Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering from the HUST in 2001.

Dr. Xie is currently a professor in Department of Biomedical Engineering at the HUST and Wuhan National Lab for Optoelectronics (WNLO).

His research interest centers on next generation PET imaging science and applications. He founded the PETLab at the HUST in 2001 and the PETLab at the NEUROMED in 2017. His team has endeavored to develop the all-digital PET technology architecture, with focuses on scintillation materials, high energy particle detectors, signal processing methods, reconstruction algorithms and etc. They are also exploring new applications for both preclinical and clinical researches, as well as the development and validation for new drugs and therapeutic approaches.