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Amira Aissiou
Shane Eaton

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  • Medical AI Hackathon
    Sat, Mar 26
    Online Event
    Mar 26, 2022, 11:00 a.m. – Mar 27, 2022, 11:00 p.m.
    Online Event
    Are you interested in AI and medical data, but not sure where to start? If so, AIMSS is hosting a mini-hackathon online this weekend from March 26th to 27th, with $50 in prizes for the highest scoring models.
  • 2022 Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare Symposium
    Mar 04, 2022, 5:00 p.m. – Mar 06, 2022, 3:00 p.m.
    Edmonton, Lister Centre, University of, Lister Centre, Edmonton, AB T6G 2H6, Canada
    AIMSS 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.
  • AIMSS AI-Generated Art Show
    Wed, Feb 23
    Mozilla Hubs
    Feb 23, 2022, 4:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
    Mozilla Hubs
    Come 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!
  • AIMSS Trivia Night
    Tue, Jan 25
    Zoom
    Jan 25, 2022, 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
    Zoom
  • AIMSS x URI: Summer Research Studentship Q&A
    Nov 22, 2021, 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
    Zoom Event
    Are 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
  • AIMSSxToastmasters Futurology Event
    Wed, Nov 17
    Hybrid In Person & Online
    Nov 17, 2021, 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. MST
    Hybrid In Person & Online
    Everyone 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!
  • AIMSS Second General Meeting: Dr. Patrick Pilarski
    Oct 20, 2021, 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. MDT
    Online Event
    Come by to meet people curious about AI in Medicine and to see a guest lecture from Dr. Patrick Pilarski.
  • AIMSS Fall Kickoff Mixer and Guest Speaker
    Sept 17, 2021, 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. MDT
    Edmonton, University of, Edmonton Clinic Health Academy, 11405 87 Ave NW, Edmonton, AB T6G 1C9, Canada
    Come by to meet people curious about AI in Medicine and to see a guest lecture from Mehadi Sayed of Clinisys.
  • Cerebriu: Applications of Smart Brain MRI Protocol & ML
    Jul 13, 2021, 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. MDT
    Zoom
    CTO of Cerebriu, Dr. Akshay Pai will present how methods from deep learning are used to analyze brain magnetic resonance images to improve scanning time. In particular, smart brain MRI protocol and its application will be presented during the talk.
  • Workshop: How to evaluate a medical AI study
    Apr 21, 2021, 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
    Zoom
    This workshop will explore various medical AI studies and present an approach on how to evaluate the performance and generalizability of a medical AI study.
  • Future of AI, now what?
    Apr 10, 2021, 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
    Zoom
    This outro lecture will touch on the concepts of explainability, privacy, ethics, and the future of AI in healthcare.
  • Workshop: Putting it all together: Using AI to detect pneumonia from Xray
    Apr 07, 2021, 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
    Zoom
    This workshop will take the principles learned from previous session to build a Machine Learning Tool that is able to classify chest x-rays with pneumonia from normal chest x-rays.
  • Stream A Lecture Series: Medical data types
    Apr 03, 2021, 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
    Zoom
    This lecture introduces Electronic Medical Records, Medical Imaging, genetic data and other -omics data, Electroencephalogram data, Drug Discovery and Protein Folding.
  • Stream B Lecture Series: Healthcare logistics
    Mar 27, 2021, 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
    Zoom
    This lecture will touch on hospital administration, hospital and clinic wait times, length of stay, healthcare costs, and healthcare policy.
  • Workshop: Optimisation strategies
    Mar 24, 2021, 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
    Zoom
    This workshop focuses on optimizing the performance of your machine learning algorithm.
  • Stream A Lecture Series: Advanced architectures
    Mar 20, 2021, 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
    Zoom
    This lecture focuses on Computer Vision, Convoluted Neural Networks, Natural Language Processing, Reinforcement Learning, and may touch on other commonly used architecture.
  • Stream B Lecture Series: Domains of medicine & data types 3
    Mar 13, 2021, 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
    Zoom
    This lecture focuses on psychiatry and precision medicine including genetics, socioeconomic status, lifestyle, and personal risk factors.
  • 2021 Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare Symposium
    Mar 12, 2021, 5:00 p.m. – Mar 13, 2021, 5:00 p.m.
    Airmeet
    The AI in Healthcare Symposium is an interdisciplinary event that aims to bridge the gap between healthcare and computer science. Every year we have exciting talks from AI experts, healthcare professionals and industry.
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Faiyaz Ahmed 

Team

Co-President

Ehsan Misaghi

MD/PhD (Genetics) student and startup co-director with an interest in combining AI and genetics/genomics to advance the provision of more personalized patient-centred healthcare.

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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
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Secretary
 Harish Prabhakar

Computing Science student minoring in Bioinformatics with an interest in applications of blockchain in healthcare. Harish aspires to be part of the inevitable integration of AI and biotechnology into everyday applications as a software developer.

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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.

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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.

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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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