Rate My Professor Fu Song Ng

Ng leads a research group focused on arrhythmogenic mechanisms underlying heart rhythm disorders, with particular emphasis on atrial fibrillation, the most common cardiac arrhythmia. His research spans laboratory experiments using optical mapping on explanted hearts to first-in-human clinical translation, incorporating advanced signal processing, electrocardiographic imaging, machine learning for electrocardiogram analysis, and studies on adipose tissue's role in arrhythmias via patient cohorts before and after bariatric surgery. He has developed novel techniques for local activation time annotation, conduction velocity estimation, and identification of drivers in atrial fibrillation. Key publications include "Processing and analysis of cardiac optical mapping data obtained with potentiometric dyes" (2012), "Techniques for automated local activation time annotation and conduction velocity estimation in cardiac mapping" (2015), "Spatial resolution requirements for accurate identification of drivers of atrial fibrillation" (2017), "Mechanisms of sex differences in atrial fibrillation: role of hormones and differences in electrophysiology, structure, function, and remodelling" (2019), and "Association of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy with future cardiovascular disease" (2023). His work has garnered over 4,300 citations. Ng was awarded an MRC Clinical Research Training Fellowship in 2009 and has been Director of the BSc in Cardiovascular Sciences at Imperial College School of Medicine since 2021. In clinical practice, he performs catheter ablation for arrhythmias such as atrial fibrillation, supraventricular tachycardia, and ventricular tachycardia, and implants pacemakers, defibrillators, and other cardiac devices.