ProfessorFu Siong Ng

Prof Fu Siong Ng is a Professor of Cardiology at Imperial College London, and a Consultant Cardiologist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. He is a Clinician Scientist and currently leads a British Heart Foundation-funded programme of research into arrhythmogenic mechanisms alongside performing invasive ablation procedures and implanting pacemakers and defibrillators in patients with heart rhythm disorders.

Prof Ng's other roles include:

• Co-Head of Section, National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College London
• Director of the British Heart Foundation Imperial-Oxford 4-year PhD Programme on AI and Data Science
• Divisional Research Lead for the Division of Emergency & Integrated Care at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
• Co-Theme Lead (Theme 4: Remote Monitoring) for the BHF Centre of Research Excellence at Imperial
• Deputy Editor of JAMA Cardiology

Prof Ng studied Medicine at St. George’s, University of London, where he was awarded a First Class (Honours) BSc degree in Medical Sciences & Clinical Pharmacology and achieved Distinctions at his Final MBBS Examinations. He received his post-graduate clinical training in Cardiology and Cardiac Electrophysiology at Hammersmith and St. Mary’s Hospitals. Prof Ng was awarded his PhD by Imperial College London for his work on the effects of gap junction modulation on the post-infarct arrhythmic substrate, funded by an MRC Clinical Research Training Fellowship. He then conducted post-doctoral research at Washington University in Saint Louis, funded by a BHF Travel Fellowship, investigating the arrhythmogenic remodelling in heart failure by performing optical mapping experiments on explanted human hearts, before returning to Imperial.

Prof Ng is accredited as a Cardiac Electrophysiology Specialist with the European Heart Rhythm Association and is a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (FESC), Fellow of the Heart Rhythm Society (FHRS), Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP) and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA).

Prof Ng leads a multidisciplinary research group that consists of clinicians, biologists, engineers, physicists, and AI-scientists. He currently supervises 4 post-doctoral research associates and 8 PhD students at Imperial. He has >190 peer-reviewed publications and 4 patents, and currently holds a 5-year British Heart Foundation Programme Grant as PI. Prof Ng's main research interests include:

• Developing AI-ECG algorithms for diagnosis and risk stratification
• Developing novel fibrillation mapping tools to classify patients into different AF electrophenotypes to tailor treatments
• Understanding the link between obesity and arrhythmias 

Prof Ng is also a co-founder of Cardiovolt.ai, and Imperial College London spinout company that was formed to commercialise the AI-ECG models developed by Prof Ng's research group.