Month: January 2020

I was fortunate to have my work on an AI based Patient Specific Physical Simulation method for accurate surgical image guidance accepted for the Black in AI workshop at NeurIPS 2020. It was my first time attending the conference which was an absolutely amazing experience! I met a great many brilliant scientists specializing in a diverse range of topics and hopefully forged lasting new connections. With 16,000+ attendees and the research community being small I also bumped into many old friends and it was great to catch up. I certainly hope to have the chance to present new work next year!

Between August and September 2019 I had the pleasure of working with Professor Nabil Alsharafa and his fantastic research team in the HAbits Lab. The HAbits lab is working on the cutting edge of computer assisted preventative medicine with a focus on applied AI and “mHealth” IoT applications. My stint with the lab was both enjoyable and productive, with one R21 grant submission and three paper submissions including a successful workshop submission to NeurIPS on AI enhanced patient specific physical models for AR surgical image guidance. We also had an accepted research poster at SAGES 2020 on novel methods for training open surgery technique using portable electronic devices.