Ella Yixuan Qiu仇艺璇
PhD Student
Faculty of Science and Engineering
University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Contact: yixuan.qiu [at] rug.nl
Faculty of Science and Engineering
University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Contact: yixuan.qiu [at] rug.nl
I am currently a PhD student in the Agile Sensing and Intelligence Group (ASIG) at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, co-supervised by Dr. Kailai Li and Prof. Ming Cao. I am jointly affiliated with the Bernoulli Institute and the Engineering and Technology Institute Groningen (ENTEG).
Previously, I receieved my M.Eng. degree with Honors in Electronic Information in 2025 from Southeast University in China, master's degree in Health Science in 2025 from Monash University, and my B.Sc. degree in Information and Computing Science in 2022 from Beijing University of Chemical Technology in China.
My research focuses on scene understanding in mobile robotics.
Selected Publications
ESIP: Explicit Surgical Instrument Prompting for Surgical Workflow Recognition
Yixuan Qiu, Mengxing Liu, Siyuan He, Guangquan Zhou, Fei Lyu, Yang Chen, Ping Zhou
IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 2026
Teaching
- Multi-modal Odometry and Semantic Mapping (ongoing)
A. Chiriţa, Master’s thesis, MSc Computing Science, University of Groningen (RUG), 2026. - Hand-Guided Segmentation in Robotic Manipulation (ongoing)
L. Hidding, Research internship, MSc Computing Science, University of Groningen (RUG), 2026. - Semantic Scene Understanding on Gaussian Splats (ongoing)
W. Haverkort, Research internship, MSc Computing Science, University of Groningen (RUG), 2026.
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