{"id":22,"date":"2022-07-14T10:13:01","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T14:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2026-04-01T01:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T05:20:08","slug":"news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/news\/","title":{"rendered":"News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>March 2026: Badhon passed his PhD proposal defense. Congratulations!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>March 2026: We have two papers accepted in CVPR 2026 workshops (<a href=\"https:\/\/fedvision.github.io\/fedvision2026\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/fedvision.github.io\/fedvision2026\/\">FedVision <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/cv4clinical.github.io\/cv4clinical_2026\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/cv4clinical.github.io\/cv4clinical_2026\/\">CV4Clinical<\/a>). Congrats to Sina and Tania!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>February 2026: We had five presentations at SPIE Photonics West 2026:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2026\/03\/8c763614-efb6-409d-8286-ea642efeb83b.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-447\" style=\"width:443px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2026\/03\/8c763614-efb6-409d-8286-ea642efeb83b.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2026\/03\/8c763614-efb6-409d-8286-ea642efeb83b-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2026\/03\/8c763614-efb6-409d-8286-ea642efeb83b-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>January 2025: We have three papers accepted in Nature Communications Medicine, Ophthalmology Science and Frontiers in Medicine!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>November 2025: Dr. Alam and the QIAI lab were featured by the WSOC TV <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsoctv.com\/news\/local\/unc-charlottes-ai-innovation-aims-prevent-vision-impairment\/OPD6X4GW4BEE5LMWQWZWGXFONY\/?outputType=amp\">Link to the news<\/a>!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>November 2025: Badhon passed his PhD depth exam, congrats!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"771\" src=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2026\/03\/b16c3353-dde9-4e41-bf09-062e15f0d7f0-1024x771.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-441\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.3281720430107526;width:317px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2026\/03\/b16c3353-dde9-4e41-bf09-062e15f0d7f0-1024x771.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2026\/03\/b16c3353-dde9-4e41-bf09-062e15f0d7f0-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2026\/03\/b16c3353-dde9-4e41-bf09-062e15f0d7f0-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2026\/03\/b16c3353-dde9-4e41-bf09-062e15f0d7f0-1536x1156.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2026\/03\/b16c3353-dde9-4e41-bf09-062e15f0d7f0.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>October 2025: QIAI Lab had a strong presence at the IEEE EMBS BHI 2025 with five poster presentations, and two invited talks:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" class=\"wp-image-437\" style=\"width: 150px\" src=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2026\/03\/IMG_4052-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2026\/03\/IMG_4052-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2026\/03\/IMG_4052-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2026\/03\/IMG_4052-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2026\/03\/IMG_4052-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2026\/03\/IMG_4052-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2026\/03\/IMG_4052-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1204\" class=\"wp-image-438\" style=\"width: 150px\" src=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2026\/03\/a2f80e03-45c7-44fa-91db-8744997c0d4c.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2026\/03\/a2f80e03-45c7-44fa-91db-8744997c0d4c.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2026\/03\/a2f80e03-45c7-44fa-91db-8744997c0d4c-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2026\/03\/a2f80e03-45c7-44fa-91db-8744997c0d4c-1024x771.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2026\/03\/a2f80e03-45c7-44fa-91db-8744997c0d4c-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2026\/03\/a2f80e03-45c7-44fa-91db-8744997c0d4c-1536x1156.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" class=\"wp-image-440\" style=\"width: 150px\" src=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2026\/03\/IMG_1390-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2026\/03\/IMG_1390-scaled.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2026\/03\/IMG_1390-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2026\/03\/IMG_1390-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2026\/03\/IMG_1390-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2026\/03\/IMG_1390-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" class=\"wp-image-439\" style=\"width: 150px\" src=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2026\/03\/IMG_1637-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2026\/03\/IMG_1637-scaled.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2026\/03\/IMG_1637-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2026\/03\/IMG_1637-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2026\/03\/IMG_1637-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2026\/03\/IMG_1637-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>August 2025: Sina featured by UNC Charlotte in their news story: <a href=\"https:\/\/inside.charlotte.edu\/featured-stories\/sina-gholami\/\">&#8220;<strong>Ph.D. student Sina Gholami eyes a future in biomedical engineering research<\/strong>&#8220;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2026\/03\/Sina-news-1024x519.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-454\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.9730728857651407;width:420px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2026\/03\/Sina-news-1024x519.png 1024w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2026\/03\/Sina-news-300x152.png 300w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2026\/03\/Sina-news-768x389.png 768w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2026\/03\/Sina-news.png 1224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>July 2025: Dr. Alam and QIAI lab featured by UNC Charlotte in their Charlotte Inside Feature Story: <a href=\"https:\/\/inside.charlotte.edu\/featured-stories\/eye-tech\/\">&#8220;<strong>Transforming ophthalmic health with AI<\/strong>&#8220;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"525\" src=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2026\/03\/qiai-1024x525.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-455\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.9505504421584552;width:449px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2026\/03\/qiai-1024x525.png 1024w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2026\/03\/qiai-300x154.png 300w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2026\/03\/qiai-768x394.png 768w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2026\/03\/qiai.png 1224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>May 2025: QIAI Lab had a strong presence at the 2025 ARVO Annual meeting with five poster presentations:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>AR-EyeLLAMA: Intelligent Conversational Digital Humans for Ophthalmology (Tania)<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"295\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-314\" src=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2025\/05\/photo_2025-05-21_17-19-24-295x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2025\/05\/photo_2025-05-21_17-19-24-295x300.jpg 295w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2025\/05\/photo_2025-05-21_17-19-24-768x782.jpg 768w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2025\/05\/photo_2025-05-21_17-19-24.jpg 844w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 295px) 100vw, 295px\" \/><\/figure><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A Federated Learning Framework for OCTA-Based Disease Classification (Sakir)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2456\" class=\"wp-image-332\" style=\"width: 270px\" src=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2025\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-05-22-at-11.08.27-AM-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2025\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-05-22-at-11.08.27-AM-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2025\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-05-22-at-11.08.27-AM-300x288.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2025\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-05-22-at-11.08.27-AM-1024x982.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2025\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-05-22-at-11.08.27-AM-768x737.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2025\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-05-22-at-11.08.27-AM-1536x1473.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2025\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-05-22-at-11.08.27-AM-2048x1965.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Denoising diffusion probabilistic models for classifying ophthalmic disease (Sina)<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"269\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-317\" src=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2025\/05\/photo_2025-05-21_17-21-04-269x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2025\/05\/photo_2025-05-21_17-21-04-269x300.jpg 269w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2025\/05\/photo_2025-05-21_17-21-04-918x1024.jpg 918w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2025\/05\/photo_2025-05-21_17-21-04-768x857.jpg 768w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2025\/05\/photo_2025-05-21_17-21-04.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 269px) 100vw, 269px\" \/><\/figure><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Diffusion Based OCT to OCTA Translation (Badhon)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Hot Topic:<\/strong> A vision-language model to generate high-quality OCT images from text prompts<strong> (<\/strong>Tania<strong>)<\/strong><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-313\" src=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2025\/05\/photo_2025-05-21_17-18-09-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2025\/05\/photo_2025-05-21_17-18-09-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2025\/05\/photo_2025-05-21_17-18-09-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2025\/05\/photo_2025-05-21_17-18-09-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2025\/05\/photo_2025-05-21_17-18-09.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>May 2025: Sina wins the Joshi Memorial Scholarship for research excellence. Congratulations!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2026\/03\/4da9d555-f864-45c4-b1bd-193996761fba-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Joshi scholarship\" class=\"wp-image-432\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.7500086742305957;width:255px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2026\/03\/4da9d555-f864-45c4-b1bd-193996761fba-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2026\/03\/4da9d555-f864-45c4-b1bd-193996761fba-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2026\/03\/4da9d555-f864-45c4-b1bd-193996761fba-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2026\/03\/4da9d555-f864-45c4-b1bd-193996761fba-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2026\/03\/4da9d555-f864-45c4-b1bd-193996761fba-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>April 2025: Sina defends his PhD proposal and is the recipient of the Graduate School Summer Fellowship. Congratulations!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>February 2025: Congratulations Badhon on passing his qualifiers exam!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>January 2025: New publication alert! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s44172-025-00341-5\">Sina&#8217;s second journal paper<\/a> is accepted in Nature Communications Engineering: <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>January 2025: QIAI Lab presented two posters at SPIE Photonics West 2025<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sina &#8211; Denoising diffusion probabilistic models for classifying ophthalmic disease.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-289 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2025\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-02-01-at-6.20.06-PM-1-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Sina - Denoising diffusion probabilistic models for classifying ophthalmic disease.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2025\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-02-01-at-6.20.06-PM-1-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2025\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-02-01-at-6.20.06-PM-1-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2025\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-02-01-at-6.20.06-PM-1-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2025\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-02-01-at-6.20.06-PM-1.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/figure><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Badhon &#8211; Retinal features analysis from AI driven OCT to OCTA translation)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-290 size-medium\" style=\"color: initial\" src=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2025\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-02-01-at-6.20.06-PM-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2025\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-02-01-at-6.20.06-PM-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2025\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-02-01-at-6.20.06-PM-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2025\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-02-01-at-6.20.06-PM-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2025\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-02-01-at-6.20.06-PM.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/figure><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sadia Joined QIAI lab as a PhD student, welcome!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>November 2024: Two papers accepted at the SPIE Photonics West 2025!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>October 2024: New publication alert! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebm-journal.org\/journals\/experimental-biology-and-medicine\/articles\/10.3389\/ebm.2024.10333\/full\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ebm-journal.org\/journals\/experimental-biology-and-medicine\/articles\/10.3389\/ebm.2024.10333\/full\">Badhon&#8217;s first paper<\/a>, now published in Experimental Biology and Medicine: <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>October 2024: Dr. Alam gave a talk at the BioPhysics seminar.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>September 2024: Sina passed his qualifiers and research aptitude exam, congrats!<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-275\" src=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2024\/11\/aa8fe471-efa0-4a2e-ad5e-2d4d744aa3b9-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2024\/11\/aa8fe471-efa0-4a2e-ad5e-2d4d744aa3b9-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2024\/11\/aa8fe471-efa0-4a2e-ad5e-2d4d744aa3b9-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2024\/11\/aa8fe471-efa0-4a2e-ad5e-2d4d744aa3b9-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2024\/11\/aa8fe471-efa0-4a2e-ad5e-2d4d744aa3b9-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2024\/11\/aa8fe471-efa0-4a2e-ad5e-2d4d744aa3b9.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>September 2024: Dr. Alam presented his work at the UNC Charlotte Biomedical Symposium!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>August 2024: Sakir and Tania joined the QIAI lab as Ph.D. students. Welcome!!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>August 2024: Incoming student Tania Haghighi received the Kennedy Fellowship from the graduate school, congrats!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>July 2024: Dr. Alam was awarded an NIH-NEI R21 award!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>June 2024: Dr. Alam was invited to talk at the 2024<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/XJeudU5zQ_Q?t=143\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/XJeudU5zQ_Q?t=143\"> Annual Ophthalmic AI Summit<\/a>. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>May 2024: Dr. Alam was elected as a member of the Retina section for the ARVO Annual Meeting Program Committee. Congrats!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>May 2024:QIAI Lab had a strong presence at the 2024 ARVO Annual meeting with one oral presentation (Sina &#8211; FedMIM) and two poster presentations (Badhon &#8211; OCTA translation, and our research intern Tania &#8211; EyeLLAMA).<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"137\" height=\"230\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-228\" src=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2024\/06\/photo_2024-06-04_12-54-04-e1717520171971-179x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2024\/06\/photo_2024-06-04_12-54-04-e1717520171971-179x300.jpg 179w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2024\/06\/photo_2024-06-04_12-54-04-e1717520171971.jpg 454w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 137px) 100vw, 137px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"219\" height=\"230\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-224\" style=\"color: initial\" src=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2024\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-06-04-at-11.42.18-AM-e1717519969165-285x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2024\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-06-04-at-11.42.18-AM-e1717519969165-285x300.jpeg 285w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2024\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-06-04-at-11.42.18-AM-e1717519969165-973x1024.jpeg 973w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2024\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-06-04-at-11.42.18-AM-e1717519969165-768x808.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2024\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-06-04-at-11.42.18-AM-e1717519969165.jpeg 1194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"281\" height=\"230\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-231\" style=\"color: initial\" src=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2024\/06\/IMG_0737-scaled-e1717520614443.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2024\/06\/IMG_0737-scaled-e1717520614443.jpg 1591w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2024\/06\/IMG_0737-scaled-e1717520614443-300x245.jpg 300w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2024\/06\/IMG_0737-scaled-e1717520614443-1024x837.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2024\/06\/IMG_0737-scaled-e1717520614443-768x628.jpg 768w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2024\/06\/IMG_0737-scaled-e1717520614443-1536x1256.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 281px) 100vw, 281px\" \/><\/figure><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>April 2024: Sina won first prize at the UNC Charlotte Annual Graduate Research Symposium for his oral presentation on Federated Learning for AMD. Congrats!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>February 2024: Dr. Alam and his NIH award was featured at the ECE website! (<a href=\"https:\/\/ece.charlotte.edu\/2024\/02\/28\/dr-alam-wins-nih-grant-on-applying-ai-in-medical-imaging\/\">Link<\/a>).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>February 2024: We have two new pre-prints:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medrxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2024.02.23.24303275v1\">Quantitative Characterization of Retinal Features in Translated OCTA<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2401.12344\">OCT-SelfNet: A Self-Supervised Framework with Multi-Modal Datasets for Generalized and Robust Retinal Disease Detection<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>February 2024: Dr. Alam&#8217;s (PI) NIH-NEI R15 proposal titled &#8220;Distributed approaches to train machine learning models in diabetic retinopathy&#8221; was funded!!!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>January 2024: We have 3 ARVO abstracts accepted (1 paper presentation and 2 posters)! Congrats to all the authors and collaborators!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>January 2024: David joined the QIAI lab as an MS student. Welcome!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>December 2023: QIAI lab is <a href=\"https:\/\/ece.charlotte.edu\/2023\/12\/19\/research-in-quantum-imaging-and-artificial-intelligence\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ece.charlotte.edu\/2023\/12\/19\/research-in-quantum-imaging-and-artificial-intelligence\/\">featured as ECE spotlight<\/a>: <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>November 2023: QIAI lab is highlighted on Charlotte Observer, in their article&nbsp; &#8220;7 ways AI is impacting your life across Charlotte&#8221;. https:\/\/amp.charlotteobserver.com\/news\/business\/article280876678.html<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>September 2023: Sina&#8217;s first journal paper is accepted in &#8216;Frontiers in Medicine&#8217;. Congratulations!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>August 2023: Dr. Alam is teaching ECGR 6119\/8119 Applied AI this semester, a hot topic for our graduate students, exciting!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>August 2023: Rashadul joined the QIAI lab as a Ph.D. student. Welcome!!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>July 2023: New member alert!!! Dr. Alam and his wife Dr. Joyee became parents to a baby girl, congratulations!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Summer 2023: Welcome our volunteer research interns (Rayeef, Radhika, Vignav)!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>May 2023: Sina attended the ARVO 2023 annual meeting and presented his work on Federated Learning for ophthalmic diagnosis.<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"295\" height=\"248\" class=\"wp-image-138 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2023\/05\/SinaGholami_ARVO2023-300x252.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2023\/05\/SinaGholami_ARVO2023-300x252.jpg 300w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2023\/05\/SinaGholami_ARVO2023-1024x859.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2023\/05\/SinaGholami_ARVO2023-768x644.jpg 768w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2023\/05\/SinaGholami_ARVO2023-1536x1288.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/malam8\/files\/2023\/05\/SinaGholami_ARVO2023.jpg 1991w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 295px) 100vw, 295px\" \/><\/figure><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>May 2023: Dr. Alam is a panelist at the &#8220;2023 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fe Fo7I69Ts&amp;ab_channel=iVistaMedicalEducation&amp;t=2h1m15s\">Ophthalmic AI Summit<\/a>&#8221; and he presented QIAI lab&#8217;s work on Federated Learning for ophthalmic diagnosis.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>May 2023: Dr. Alam is awarded the UNC Charlotte Faculty Research Grant. Congratulations!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>March 2023: Sina&#8217;s abstract on &#8220;<b>A federated learning framework for training multi-class OCT classification models<\/b>&#8221; 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.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>January, 2023: Happy New Year! Dr. Alam is offering a new course &#8216;AI in Biomedical Applications&#8217; in spring 2023, which will be part of the ECE department&#8217;s Machine Learning concentration.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>January 2023: Sina joined the QIAI lab as a Ph.D. student. 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