Resume
Academic Achievements
- Over 200 publications in leading journals and conferences in medical image analysis.
- [Aug 2025] Two papers accepted at EMNLP.
- [Aug 2025] Team ranked 1st in AIM 2025 Rip Current Segmentation (RipSeg) Challenge.
- [July 2025] One paper accepted at ACM Multimedia (ACMM) and one at CIKM.
- [July 2025] Released OphNet-3D, the first extensive RGB-D dynamic 3D reconstruction dataset for ophthalmic surgery.
- [April 2025] Two papers accepted at MICCAI and two at IEEE SMC.
- [March 2025] One paper accepted at CVPR (Oral) and one at ACL (Oral).
- [March 2025] One paper accepted at NPJ Digital Medicine.
- Serves as Associate Editor for IEEE TNNLS, Neural Networks, IEEE TCSS, and IEEE JBHI.
Background
- Associate Professor in the Department of Computational Biology at MBZUAI, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
- Research focuses on connecting language and vision for better interpretation of multidimensional data, spanning Machine Learning, Computer Vision, and Natural Language Processing.
- Emphasizes healthcare applications and using natural language to explain the rationale behind AI decision-making.
- Has strong expertise in analyzing medical images (US, mammogram, CT, PET, MRI, fMRI) to improve patient outcomes.
- Collaborates with medical professionals to develop early diagnostic tools for cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, and heart disease.