Dr. Robert Qi is currently Acting Dean of the Systems Hub, concurrently serving as Professor and Head of the Bioscience and Biomedical Engineering Thrust at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou). Prior to this appointment, he was Professor in the Division of Life Science at HKUST. From 2018 to 2022, he served as Assistant Professor and Principal Investigator of the Proteomics Group at the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore, before moving to HKUST. Prof. Qi is an accomplished scholar who has produced many high-quality research publications in impactful journals. His research focuses on understanding the molecular mechanisms that regulate microtubule cytoskeletal organization during cell division and morphogenesis, and how defects in these mechanisms result in diseases, such as cancer and neurodegenerative diseases. His group has made several breakthrough discoveries in the control of microtubule cytoskeletal organization in animal cells by identifying the regulators of microtubule growth initiation, and the findings have helped understanding the control mechanisms of microtubule-dependent physiological and pathological cellular events.