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 the 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 ECE website! (Link).
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!
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 PhD 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:
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 PhD student. Welcome!!
August, 2022: Dr. Alam is offering a graduate-level course, ‘Applied Artificial Intelligence’ for the 2022 fall semester.
July 2022: Dr. Alam joins UNC Charlotte – ECE as a tenure-track Assistant Professor!
July 2022: QIAI starts its journey at UNC Charlotte.