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URL:http://www.deim.urv.cat/ca/agenda-ca/12729/deiminari-from-pixels-to-pan
 demics-an-ai-journey-across-academia-industry-and-back-to-global-health
LOCATION:Laboratori 231 DEIM
SUMMARY:DEIMinari: From Pixels to Pandemics: An AI Journey Across Academia\
 , Industry and Back to Global Health
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:Títol:&nbsp\;From Pixels to Pandemics: An AI Journey Across Ac
 ademia\, Industry and Back to Global Health\n\nConferenciant: Md Mostafa K
 amal Sarker\n\nInstitució:&nbsp\;Big Data Institute\, University of Oxfor
 d\n\nProfessor/a organitzador/a: Domènec Savi PUIG VALLS\n\nHora: 12:00h\
 n\nResum:\n\nIn this talk\, Dr Mostafa Sarker traces his 14-year journey f
 rom medical imaging research through industry and back to academia\, where
  he now leads AI for global health at the University of Oxford. He explore
 s how AI methods can be transferred between fields and why their practical
  impact depends on people\, data and partnerships. His academic work began
  with doctoral research in Spain on recognising food places in egocentric 
 photo-streams from wearable cameras and extended to skin lesion segmentati
 on for skin cancer diagnosis. He subsequently worked on computational path
 ology within PathLAKE at Queen&#39\;s University Belfast\, and on underwat
 er object detection and AI for thermographic surveys at Robert Gordon Univ
 ersity. At Oxford&#39\;s Department of Engineering Science\, he developed 
 clinical AI for detecting congenital heart defects in fetal echocardiograp
 hy within the InnoHK-funded COCHE centre. As Head of AI at Technovative So
 lutions and Consortium AI Task Force Lead\, Dr Sarker wrote the AI strateg
 y and work packages for three funded Horizon Europe projects: CLIMATEADAPT
 4EOSC on climate adaptation\, EcoPlast on circular automotive plastics\, a
 nd GENMAT on generative foundation models for materials discovery. These p
 rojects expanded his work on domain-specific foundation models and agentic
  AI beyond healthcare. He now leads the AI in Global Health group at MORU 
 Epidemiology and serves as Oxford&#39\;s AI Task Force Lead for PANDAI\, b
 uilding the foundation model for the European Pandemic AI Observatory\, wi
 th the WHO Global Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence as a key part
 ner and end user. The talk concludes with practical lessons on moving betw
 een domains\, developing diverse AI solution systems\, and building trustw
 orthy\, deployable AI for low-resource and global health settings.
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