Biography

Ulas Bagci, Ph.D., is a tenured Associate Professor at the Northwestern University's Radiology, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering Department at Chicago, and courtesy professor at the Center for Research in Computer Vision (CRCV), department of computer science, University of Central Florida (UCF). He is director of Machine and Hybrid Intelligent Lab at the Northwestern. His main research interests are artificial intelligence, machine learning and their applications in biomedical and clinical imaging. Dr. Bagci has more than 330 peer-reviewed articles in these topics. Previously, he was a staff scientist and lab co-manager at the National Institutes of Health’s radiology and imaging sciences department, center for infectious disease imaging. Dr. Bagci holds several NIH R01, U01, R15, R21, and R03 grants (as Principal Investigator) and serves as a steering committee member of AIR (artificial intelligence resource) at the NIH. Dr. Bagci also serves as an area chair for MICCAI for several years and he is an associate editor of top-tier journals in his fields such as IEEE Trans. on Medical Imaging, Medical Physics and Medical Image Analysis. Prof. Bagci teaches machine learning, advanced deep learning methods, computer and robot vision and medical imaging courses. He has several international and national recognitions including best paper and reviewer awards.