Ling Shao (邵岭) is a scientist, professor and entrepreneur in the field of artificial intelligence.
He was the founder, CEO and Chief Scientist of the Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence (IIAI) in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates.
[3][4] He also founded the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), for which he served as its Provost and Executive Vice-President from 2019 to 2021.
[8] After completing his Ph.D., Ling Shao worked as a Senior Scientist at Philips Research in Eindhoven, the Netherlands from 2005 to 2009.
[11] Shao has been elected a Fellow of the IEEE,[1] the IAPR,[2] the IET and the British Computer Society.