- November 2024: Two papers accepted at the SPIE Photonics West 2025!
- October 2024: New publication alert! Badhon’s first paper, now published in Experimental Biology and Medicine: https://www.ebm-journal.org/journals/experimental-biology-and-medicine/articles/10.3389/ebm.2024.10333/full
- October 2024: Dr. Alam gave a talk at the BioPhysics seminar.
- September 2024: Sina passed his qualifiers and research aptitude exam, congrats!
- September 2024: Dr. Alam presented his work at the UNC Charlotte Biomedical Symposium!
- August 2024: Sakir and Tania joined the QIAI lab as Ph.D. students. Welcome!!
- August 2024: Incoming student Tania Haghighi received the Kennedy Fellowship from the graduate school, congrats!
- July 2024: Dr. Alam was awarded an NIH-NEI R21 award!
- June 2024: Dr. Alam was invited to talk at the 2024 Annual Ophthalmic AI Summit. Here is a link for his presentation: https://youtu.be/XJeudU5zQ_Q?t=143
- May 2024: Dr. Alam was elected as a member of the Retina section for the ARVO Annual Meeting Program Committee. Congrats!
- May 2024:QIAI Lab had a strong presence at the 2024 ARVO Annual meeting with one oral presentation (Sina – FedMIM) and two poster presentations (Badhon – OCTA translation, and our research intern Tania – EyeLLAMA).
- April 2024: Sina won first prize at the UNC Charlotte Annual Graduate Research Symposium for his oral presentation on Federated Learning for AMD. Congrats!
- February 2024: Dr. Alam and his NIH award was featured at the ECE website! (Link).
- February 2024: We have two new pre-prints:
- February 2024: Dr. Alam’s (PI) NIH-NEI R15 proposal titled “Distributed approaches to train machine learning models in diabetic retinopathy” was funded!!!
- January 2024: We have 3 ARVO abstracts accepted (1 paper presentation and 2 posters)! Congrats to all the authors and collaborators!
- January 2024: David joined the QIAI lab as an MS student. Welcome!
- December 2023: QIAI lab is featured as ECE spotlight: https://ece.charlotte.edu/2023/12/19/research-in-quantum-imaging-and-artificial-intelligence/
- November 2023: QIAI lab is highlighted on Charlotte Observer, in their article “7 ways AI is impacting your life across Charlotte”. https://amp.charlotteobserver.com/news/business/article280876678.html
- September 2023: Sina’s first journal paper is accepted in ‘Frontiers in Medicine’. Congratulations!
- August 2023: Dr. Alam is teaching ECGR 6119/8119 Applied AI this semester, a hot topic for our graduate students, exciting!
- August 2023: Rashadul joined the QIAI lab as a Ph.D. student. Welcome!!
- July 2023: New member alert!!! Dr. Alam and his wife Dr. Joyee became parents to a baby girl, congratulations!
- Summer 2023: Welcome our volunteer research interns (Rayeef, Radhika, Vignav)!
- May 2023: Sina attended the ARVO 2023 annual meeting and presented his work on Federated Learning for ophthalmic diagnosis.
- May 2023: Dr. Alam is a panelist at the “2023 Ophthalmic AI Summit” and he presented QIAI lab’s work on Federated Learning for ophthalmic diagnosis.
Here is a link to his talk: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe Fo7I69Ts&ab_channel=iVistaMedicalEducation&t=2h1m15s
- May 2023: Dr. Alam is awarded the UNC Charlotte Faculty Research Grant. Congratulations!
- March 2023: Sina’s abstract on “A federated learning framework for training multi-class OCT classification models” has been accepted at the ARVO Imaging in the Eye Conference. Congratulations! Sina will be presenting his work in April this year at the conference.
- January, 2023: Happy New Year! Dr. Alam is offering a new course ‘AI in Biomedical Applications’ in spring 2023, which will be part of the ECE department’s Machine Learning concentration.
- January 2023: Sina joined the QIAI lab as a Ph.D. student. Welcome!!
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