本科毕业于南开大学光电子专业（2006-2010），博士毕业于帝国理工学院Hamlyn手术机器人研究中心（2010-2015）。曾在帝国理工学院、医科达公司、伦敦大学学院、之江实验室从事医学光学成像的研究或研发工作。

主要从事新型内窥成像方法与技术研究。围绕偏振内窥成像、荧光内窥成像、计算内窥成像、诊疗一体内窥等方向，开展从概念创新、系统设计、样机开发、临床应用探索及试验验证的系统性研究，致力于推动微创诊疗的精准化与智能化。

作为负责人承担国家自然科学基金重大项目课题、国家自然科学基金-英国皇家学会国际合作交流项目、国家自然科学基金青年基金（C类）、浙江省尖兵领雁重大研发计划项目、浙江省杰出青年科学基金等科研项目。作为一作/通讯，在 Nature Biomedical Engineering、Advanced Photonics、Advanced Science、Device、Photonics Research 等期刊发表论文二十余篇，参编 Springer Nature 出版专著章节一部；获授权美国发明专利一项、中国发明专利十余项。获浙江省杰出青年科学基金资助，入选浙江省海外高层次人才，曾获 Santander Mobility Award、MedIA/MICCAI 最佳论文奖等，现任期刊Advanced Photonics Nexus 编委。

发表：

1. Wang Y, Song J, Zhou C, Tian Q, Li W, Wang H, Xiao J, Elson DS, Stoyanov D, Yang Q, Feng X*, Qi J*. Color-polarimetric stereo endoscopy for high-quality 3D reconstruction. Photonics Research, 2026, 14(1): 130–143.

2. Wang Y, Li Y, Zhou C, Ma X*, Qi J. HFFST: A Hierarchical Feature Fusion Algorithm for Spatial Gene Expression Prediction Using Histopathology Images. IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 2026, 23(2): 795–804.

3. Tan Y, Bi Y, Shao J, Chen Y, Zhu W, Yu T, Wang D, Song J, Qi J*, Gu Y*. Repurposing the Clinical Approved Photosensitizer Hematoporphyrin for in Vivo Fluorescence Endomicroscopy. Advanced Healthcare Materials, 2026, 15(14): e04147.

4. Liu X, Shao J, Xiao J, Yang C, Zhang J, Yang X, Hao X, Gu Y, Liu X, Tan Y*, Qi J*,Yang Q*. Real-Time High-Definition Hyperspectral Endoscopy via Spatial-Temporal Low-Frequency-Stochastic Spectral Encoding. Advanced Science, 2026, 13(16): e17746.

5. Song J, Wang D, Zhou C, Chen Y, Guo F, Wang L, Elson DS, Yuan X*, Yang Q*, Qi J*. A polarization-maintaining endoscope for surgical imaging. Device, 2025.

6. Gao X, Chen X, Wu Z, Yang Q, Wang L, Wang W*, Qi J*. Development of a multiparameter phantom system for multispectral imaging. Biomedical Optics Express, 2025, 16(9): 3524–3536.

7. Feng F, Huo D, Zhang Z, Lou Y, Wang S, Gu Z, Liu DS, Duan X, Wang D, Liu X, Qi J*, Yu S*, Du Q*, Chen G*, Lu C*, Yu Y*, Ren X* and Yuan X*. Symbiotic evolution of photonics and artificial intelligence: a comprehensive review. Advanced Photonics, 2025, 7(2): 024001.

8. Chen Y, Bi Y, Zhou C, Song J, Qi M, Gu Y*, Tan Y*, Qi J*. Label-free histopathological diagnosis of frozen sections based on multi-excitation and broad-emission autofluorescence imaging. Biomedical Optics Express, 2025, 16(11): 4777–4795.

9. Wang D, Song J, Gao J, Qi J*, Elson DS. Computational polarization imaging in vivo through surgical smoke using refined polarization difference. Advanced Science, 2024, 11(30): 2309998.

10. Cheng K, Pan L, Lai Z, Jiang M, Xu Y, Qi J*, Feng X*. Blind aberration correction for light field photography. Optics Letters, 2024, 50(1): 209–212.

11. Chen Y, Chu J, Xin B, Qi J*. Mechanical stability of polarization signatures in biological tissue characterization. Biomedical Optics Express, 2024, 15(4): 2652–2665.

12. Qi J*, Tatla T, Nissanka-Jayasuriya E, Yuan AY, Stoyanov D, Elson DS. Surgical polarimetric endoscopy for the detection of laryngeal cancer. Nature Biomedical Engineering, 2023, 7(8): 971–985.

13. Qi J, Elson DS*. Polarimetric endoscopy. In: Polarized Light in Biomedical Imaging and Sensing: Clinical and Preclinical Applications. Cham: Springer Nature; 2022. pp. 179–204.

14. Qi J, Elson DS*, Stoyanov D*. Eigenvalue calibration method for 3×3 Mueller polarimeters. Optics Letters, 2019, 44(9): 2362–2365.

15. Qi J, He H, Lin J, Dong Y, Chen D, Ma H, Elson DS*. Assessment of tissue polarimetric properties using Stokes polarimetric imaging with circularly polarized illumination. Journal of Biophotonics, 2018, 11(4): e201700139.

16. Qi J, He H, Ma H, Elson DS*. Extended polar decomposition method of Mueller matrices for turbid media in reflection geometry. Optics Letters, 2017, 42(20): 4048–4051.

17. Qi J, He C, Elson DS*. Real-time complete Stokes polarimetric imager based on a linear polarizer array camera for tissue polarimetric imaging. Biomedical Optics Express, 2017, 8(11): 4933–4946.

18. Qi J, Elson DS*. Mueller polarimetric imaging for surgical and diagnostic applications: a review. Journal of Biophotonics, 2017, 10(8): 950–982.

19. Dong Y, Qi J (co-first), He H, He C, Liu S, Wu J, Elson DS, Ma H*. Quantitatively characterizing the microstructural features of breast ductal carcinoma tissues in different progression stages by Mueller matrix microscope. Biomedical Optics Express, 2017, 8(8): 3643–3655.

20. Qi J, Elson DS*. A high-definition Mueller polarimetric endoscope for tissue characterisation. Scientific Reports, 2016, 6: 25953.

21. Qi J, Ye M, Singh M, Clancy NT, Elson DS*. Narrow-band 3×3 Mueller polarimetric endoscopy. Biomedical Optics Express, 2013, 4(11): 2433–2449.

22. Qi J, Barrière C, Wood TC, Elson DS*. Polarized multispectral imaging in a rigid endoscope based on elastic light scattering spectroscopy. Biomedical Optics Express, 2012, 3(9): 2087–2099.