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GUEST RESEARCH LECTURE SERIES

Organized By Artificial Intelligence & Data Analytics Lab

Written by AIDA Lab Leader, Dr.Tanzila Saba
Artificial Intelligence & Data Analytics (AIDA) LAB the IEEE Technological Innovation Award. His proceedings and technical papers, including venues including IEEE Communication Magazine,
at Prince Sultan University, regularly conducts research work has been published in top-tier chapters in books. He is an active reviewer of IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication
guest lectures featuring high-profile national journals and picked by various scientific blogs many conferences and international journals. (JSAC), IEEE Communications Surveys and
and international individuals from the AI, Data and international media. He has also published many books in object- Tutorials (CST), and IEEE Transactions on Mobile
Science, security and health care profession. oriented programming and mathematics. His Computing (TMC). He was awarded the highest
Informative and stimulating, these talks give the Lecture Summary: Health outcomes research research interests include Computer Graphics, national teaching award in Pakistan—the higher
knowledge how AI & Data Science applications studies the results of health care services, Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality. education commission’s (HEC) best university
are going on across various sectors, support providing evidence for the value of specific teacher award—for the year 2012-2013. He has
professional development, enhance the visibility medical treatments or interventions that can Lecture Summary: The focus was share the been appointed as ACM Distinguished Speaker
of PSU research environment, strengthen the be used to make better decisions and improve knowledge about Augmented & Virtual Reality. for a three-year term starting from 2020. He is a
significance of AIDA lab, support Saudi Vision health care. In recent years, the use of machine There is no doubt that Augmented Reality (AR) senior member of IEEE and ACM.
2030 and help to build the network of contacts. learning to analyze the Electronic Health and Virtual Reality (VR) have the potential to Lecture Summary: Prof. Junaid highlighted and
Our virtual guest lecture series coves a range of Records (EHRs) has profoundly changed the become a fascinating widespread technology not discussed the various ethical challenges that
multidisciplinary application of AI, Data Science practice of medicine and significantly improved only in computer graphics but also in many other AI poses and the different approaches that
and Data Analytics and are open to faculties, the safety and quality of clinical care. An early subjects. In about two decades, AR or in general, are been explored and adopted.AI technology
students, alumni and professionals at local, prediction of health outcomes e.g., hospital Mixed Reality (MR) has turned into one of the has revolutionized numerous disciplines but
national and international level. readmission and patient mortality is crucial for most attractive topics in involved in variety of it also has significant use of abuse (e.g., deep
assessing the severity of illness and adjudicating topics attempting to obtain satisfactory results. fakes, social bots, profiling people, social
All guest lectures are available at our YouTube the value of treatment strategy and resource Realism and robust AR system is the open issue discrimination). We have realized that biases
channel: planning. Dr.Syed presented his machine yet. In this speech, the Dr.Hoshang presented hidden in data and algorithms could lead to
https://rb.gy/k0d0zy learning model to predict 30-days all-cause what he has done so far in realism, robustness more discrimination and AI technology maybe
hospital readmissions considering discharge- and interaction of AR/VR systems and discussed used for ulterior anti-social ends. AI has kindled
First Guest Research Lecture to-alternate-care-facilities. He discussed the possible directions toward this enhancement of a vigorous debate around the principles and
Our first guest lecture titled “Predicting Health Deep FLAIM, their approach predicted mortality AR and VR. Moreover, interaction between real values that should guide the development of AI/
Outcomes using Machine Learning to Foster to the paralytic mileus, and trauma patients. and virtual objects were discussed in details. ML technology and limit the potential of AI/ML
Safety, Quality and Value in Clinical Care” was The talk was concluded with results that they How to engage our current research with new to be weaponized or cause harm while aiming
delivered by Dr Syed Ahmad Chan Bukhari (St. have achieved through experimentations to technology to enhance our current research was for social good. This had led the community
John’ s University, USA). show to attendees how such frameworks could the main part of his speech. At the end, some to consider leveraging insights from the field
potentially be helpful to medical professionals in points were highlighted to go further with the of ethics, an important branch of philosophy
Speaker Bio: Dr. Bukhari is as an Assistant clinical decision making to foster safety, quality, future of VR and AR along with new technology. that helps guide humans in living the good life,
Professor and Director of Healthcare Informatics and value in clinical care. The session was attended by the national and on how to regulate the progress of AI. Several
at St. John's University, New York. He received his The national and international audience international audience from various majors and countries (including the prominent examples
Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University attended the session including students, faculty students showed the great interest. of Singapore, the US, and the UK) as well as
of New Brunswick, Canada and then went on and professionals. international organizations (such as high-level
to complete his postdoctoral fellowship at Yale Third Guest Research Lecture expert groups established by OECD and the
School of Medicine where he worked with Second Guest Research Lecture Our 3rd virtual guest lecture titled “THE ETHICS EU) are deliberating over the ethical use of AI.
Stanford University Center of Expanded Data Our second guest lecture titled “Virtual and OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE” was delivered There are also efforts in this direction by many
Annotation and Retrieval (CEDAR) to develop Augmented Reality: A Vision of 25 Years by Prof. Junaid Qadir , Director of the IHSAN companies, e.g., Facebook, Google, SAP.
data submission pipelines to improve scientific (Realism, Robustness & Interaction of AR/VR Research Lab, Information Technology University
experimental reproducibility. His current systems” was delivered by Dr.Hoshang Kolivand, (ITU),Pakistan,(the winner of a grant under the
research efforts are concentrated on addressing Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK). Facebook Research Ethics,2020 in AI Initiative for
several core problems in the area of healthcare the Asia Pacific, https://lnkd.in/eYQ_dxP)
informatics and data science. He particularly Speaker Bio: Dr.Hoshang Kolivand received his
focuses on devising techniques to semantically MS degree in applied mathematics and computer Speaker Bio: Prof. Junaid Qadir is the director
confederate heterogeneous biomedical data and in 1999, and his PhD from Media and Games of the IHSAN Research Lab and the Chairperson
to further develop clinical predictive models for Innovation Centre of Excellence (MaGIC-X) in of the Electrical Engineering Department at
diseases predictions. These techniques further Universiti Teknologi Malaysia in 2013. He has the Information Technology University (ITU) of
alleviate many data access-related challenges completed his Post Doctoral in Augmented Punjab in Lahore, Pakistan. His primary research
faced by healthcare providers. Dr. Bukhari is Reality in UTM. Previously he worked as a as a interests are in the areas of computer systems
a senior IEEE member and a distinguished Senior Lecturer in Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. and networking, applied machine learning, using
ACM speaker who serves as an editorial board Currently he is a Senior Lecturer in Liverpool John ICT for development (ICT4D); and engineering
member of multiple scientific journals. In Moores University. He has published numerous education. He has published more than 150 peer-
September 2019, he has been awarded with articles in international journals, conference reviewed articles at various high-quality research