About
Abdullah-Al-Zubaer (Abdullah) Imran is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and a Lighthouse Beacon Foundation Faculty 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, IEEE TPAMI, 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
July 2026: Congratulations to Tyler Ward on successfully defending his PhD dissertation! Dr. Ward will join Morehead State University as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science in Fall 2026.
May 2026: Honored to be awarded a Markey Cancer Center Support Grant.
May 2026: Congratulations to Nayla on being selected as a 2027 Lighthouse Beacon Foundation Graduate Fellow!
April 2026: Abstract accepted at the 2026 Joint AAPM & COMP Meeting.
February 2026: Honored to be awarded a UNITE General Pilot Grant.
January 2025: Honored to be awarded a CCTS Pilot Award for our End-to-End CT Imaging project.