Asst Prof Jin Yueming, Principal Investigator at NUS Guangzhou Research Translation and Innovation Institute (NUS GRTII) and Assistant Professor (joint appointment, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering), National University of Singapore (NUS), has been awarded the 2026 Robert Brown Promising Researcher Award from the Ministry of Education, Singapore (MOE), for her groundbreaking research in AI and augmented reality-enabled medical navigation.
2026 Awardees of the Robert Brown Promising Researcher Award. From left: Asst Prof Jin Yueming
Research Project: AI-AR-Enabled Navigation Platform for Clinical Treatment
Asst Prof Jin Yueming received the award for her project "AI-AR-Enabled Navigation Platform for Clinical Treatment". The project harnesses artificial intelligence and augmented reality to enhance precision in clinical procedures, providing safer and more efficient technological support for future healthcare systems.
Precision diagnosis and treatment is central to modern healthcare, and how to make clinical operations more accurate, safer, and more effective remains a major challenge for the medical community.
Asst Prof Jin Yueming expressed her honour at receiving the award. Her team will further advance the AI-AR-enabled navigation platform for clinical treatment, with the goal of significantly improving the precision, safety, and effectiveness of clinical procedures in future healthcare systems.
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Asst Prof Jin Yueming
Jin Yueming is currently Assistant Professor at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, National University of Singapore, with a joint appointment at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. She is also a member of the N.1 Institute for Health and the WisDM (Wireless and Intelligent Systems for Digital Medicine) at NUS. Her research focuses on artificial intelligence for medical image analysis and surgical robot vision. She was awarded the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship, named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list in 2024, and listed among the World's Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University for three consecutive years (2023–2025).
Asst Prof Jin Yueming's research has garnered over 7,000 citations on Google Scholar (h-index 37), with more than 50 papers published in top-tier journals and conferences including IEEE TMI, MedIA, Nature Communications, MICCAI, NeurIPS, CVPR, ICCV, AAAI, and ICRA. She has received numerous prestigious awards, including IEEE TBME Featured Article (2025), AAAI 2024 Most Influential Paper Award, IJCARS-MICCAI 2021 Best Paper Award, ICRA 2021 Best Paper Award in Medical Robotics, and MedIA-MICCAI 2017 Best Paper Award. She serves as Program Co-Chair of IPCAI 2026 and MIDL 2026, and as Area Chair, Session Chair, or Organiser for top-tier conferences including MICCAI, ICRA, AAAI, and ICLR.
About the Robert Brown Promising Researcher Award
The Robert Brown Promising Researcher Award recognises outstanding early-career researchers with strong potential to advance academic research and innovation. It provides funding support to help recipients expand their research and pursue new directions beyond the original scope of their projects. Named in honour of Dr Robert Brown, the founding Chairman of the Ministry of Education's Academic Research Council, the award is a significant academic honour from the Ministry of Education, Singapore, supporting the growth of young scholars.
