Prof. Rama Chellappa, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Johns Hopkins University will give a talk on AI4Medicine as part of CDiTH and KCIS of IIIT Hyderabad on 1 April 2025.

Despite impressive advances in computer vision and medical imaging, owing to the reemergence of data driven AI methods, two basic questions remain unanswered. Will AI methods work everywhere? Will they work for everyone? These two questions can be decomposed into the following problems that need attention, especially in medicine AI. These include domain/task adaptation and generalization, bias detection and mitigation, the effectiveness of predictive models, learning from small data, the role of synthetic data, and federated learning. In this talk, Prof. Rama Chellappa will discuss these problems and present partial solutions to them with examples.

Prof. Rama Chellappa is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence in the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) in the Whiting School of Engineering and Biomedical Engineering in the School of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University (JHU). At Hopkins, he is serving as an interim co-Director of the Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Institute, and is affiliated with CIS, CLSP, IAA and MINDS. He also holds the non-tenured position as a College Park Professor in the ECE department at the University of Maryland. His research interests are in artificial  intelligence, computer vision, machine learning, medical imaging and pattern recognition. He received the 2012 K S Fu Prize from the International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR). He is a recipient of the Society, Technical Achievement, and Meritorious Service Awards from the IEEE Signal Processing Society, the Technical Achievement and Meritorious Service Awards from the IEEE Computer Society and the Inaugural Leadership Award from the IEEE Biometrics Council. He received the 2020 IEEE Jack S. Kilby Medal for Signal Processing, the 2023 IEEE Computer Society Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Distinguished Researcher Award, and the 2024 Edwin H Land Medal from Optica (formerly Optical Society of America).  He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering. He has been recognized as a Distinguished Alumni by the ECE department at Purdue University and the Indian Institute of Science. He is a Fellow of AAAI, AAAS, ACM, AIMBE, IAPR, IEEE, NAI, OSA, and the Washington Academy of Sciences and holds nine patents.

Speaker: Prof. Rama Chellappa, Johns Hopkins University 

Title: AI4Medicine

Date: 1 April 2025

Time: 4:00 pm

Venue: IIITH campus

March 2025