
About Us
2019
in
Founded by
Amira Aissiou
Shane Eaton
Events
- Sat, Mar 26Online Event
- Fri, Mar 04EdmontonMar 04, 2022, 5:00 p.m. – Mar 06, 2022, 3:00 p.m.Edmonton, Lister Centre, University of, Lister Centre, Edmonton, AB T6G 2H6, CanadaAIMSS is excited to announce our third annual 🩺🤖 AI in Healthcare 🤖🩺 Symposium! Join us for this hybrid event on March 4-6 2022, featuring talks and networking opportunities.
- Wed, Feb 23Mozilla HubsFeb 23, 2022, 4:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.Mozilla HubsCome check out a one-of-a-kind Art Show presented by AIMSS! This event will be held virtually on Mozilla Hubs. Walk around and see AI-generated artwork based on medicine and AI-related prompts. Participants may enter giveaways for posters of the art displayed!
- Mon, Nov 22Zoom EventNov 22, 2021, 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.Zoom EventAre you an Alberta-based undergraduate interested in getting your summer research funded? Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in medical contexts directly align with the priority research areas of Alberta Innovates: digital health, data-enabled health transformation, and health innovation
- Wed, Nov 17Hybrid In Person & OnlineNov 17, 2021, 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. MSTHybrid In Person & OnlineEveryone could use some practice making improvised speeches, even cyborgs. This is why UAlberta Toastmasters and the Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Student Society have paired up to deliver a crossover meeting that will augment your reality!
- Wed, Oct 20Online Event
- Fri, Sept 17Edmonton
- Tue, Jul 13Zoom
- Wed, Apr 21Zoom
- Sat, Apr 10Zoom
- Sat, Apr 03Zoom
- Sat, Mar 27Zoom
- Wed, Mar 24Zoom
- Sat, Mar 20Zoom
- Sat, Mar 13Zoom
- Fri, Mar 12Airmeet
Faiyaz Ahmed
Team

Treasurer
I just graduated from my cell biology. My research experience includes language psychology, spinal and limb osteogenesis, donor blood storage, and some cryobiology. I’m really excited to find ways to incorporate AI into my research!
Rafay Osmani

VP Internal
Chun Xiao
Fourth year Biochemistry undergraduate student with research experience in immunization against Parkinson's disease. Chun has an interest in protein folding diseases and how AI can predict protein structure.

VP External
Immunology and Infection student that is interested in the use of AI to assist in diagnostic predictions in the health sciences. Kevin also has an interest in transplant auto-immunity, computational psychiatry and computer vision.
Kevin Zhan

VP Education
Marcus Kim
Computing science student with an interest in AI algorithms and software development. Interested in how prediction models are capable of identifying severe strains of cancer to a high degree of accuracy.

VP Operations
Computing Science undergraduate student with an interest in artificial intelligence and it's applications in medicine. Shane is interested in deep learning applications together with computational neuroscience, computer vision and natural language processing for disorder/disease detection.
Shanemel Asuncion
Computing Science and Psychology double major with research experience in neurotechnology and brain-computer interfaces. Faiyaz is interested in finding novel ways of incorporating machine learning techniques like deep reinforcement learning and convolutional neural network into biofeedback applications, object detection, and medical image processing.
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Resources
Cloud Computing
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Cybera - Free cloud computing for UofA Students
Professors in Medical AI (UofA)
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Samer Adeeb - Biomechanics of bone and joints
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Russ Greiner - Bioinformatics, cancer, mental health
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Nilanjan Ray - Biomedical image analysis
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Eleni Stroulia - Task automation for independent living with chronic illness
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Kim Solez - Renal transplant pathology
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Martha White - Neural information processing
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David Wishart - Metabolomics, biomedical text mining
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Osmar Zaiane - Data mining, medical imaging