About
Abdullah-Al-Zubaer (Abdullah) Imran is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and a Lighthouse Beacon Foundation Scholar of the Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering at the University of Kentucky. He is also an affiliated faculty member at the UK Center for Clinical and Translational Science, Markey Cancer Center, and UNITE Research Priority Area. He is an investigator of the NSF and Kentucky Economic Development Cabinet-funded $24M CLIMBS project. Prior to joining UK, he worked as a Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford University. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), advised by Distinguished Professor Demetri Terzopoulos. He also worked at VoxelCloud, Inc., Philips Corporate Research, and Tencent Medical AI. His research and teaching are primarily centered on artificial intelligence and computer vision with applications in medicine, climate change, and social sciences. Major highlights of his recent work have been in the realm of learning with limited labeled data employing generative AI, multimodal fusion, and self-supervised learning techniques. He has numerous publications in journals, book chapters, and refereed conferences as well as an omnibus patent. He is the winner of two Best Paper Awards for his work in machine learning and 3D medical image segmentation. He has served as Area Chair and Senior Program Committee for top medical imaging/AI conferences, including AAAI, MICCAI, and MIDL. He has also served as a Program Committee/Reviewer for several of the most prestigious international AI and medical imaging conferences/journals, including AAAI, ACM HEALTH, CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, ICLR, IEEE TAI, IEEE TMI, ISBI, Medical Physics, MICCAI, NeurIPS, and WACV. He is a member of AAPM, ACM, IEEE, IEEE EMBS, MICCAI, and SPIE.
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News/Update
Munia passed her PhD Qualifying Exam. Congratulations Munia!
Abstract accepted at RSNA 2025 as Education Exhibits!
Paper accepted at MICCAI 2025 DeCaF workshop. Congratulations Afsaneh!
Manuscript accepted for publication in Nature Scientific Reports. Congratulations Mahmut!
Honored to receive the Lighthouse Beacon Foundation Scholar Award by UK Engineering!
Manuscript accepted for publication in the Journal Image and Vision Computing.
Short paper accepted at MIDL 2025. Congratulations Tyler!
Abstract accepted for presentation at AAPM 2025!
Matt defended his data science Masters project. Congratulations Matt!
Short paper accepted at CVPRw 2025 MMFM3. Congratulations Munia!
Manuscript accepted for publication in the Journal of Medical Imaging. Congratulations Ramisa!
Paper accepted at EMBC 2025. Congratulations Munia!
Paper (oral) accepted at MIDL 2025. Congratulations Tyler!
I am serving as an Area Chair for MICCAI 2025