Dr. Metin Gurcan is Senior Associate Dean for Artificial Intelligence, the founding Director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence Research, Professor of Internal Medicine, Pathology, and Biomedical Engineering at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, and Director of the Clinical Image Analysis Lab (https://school.wakehealth.edu/research/labs/clinical-image-analysis-lab). Previously, he was the founding director of the Center for Biomedical Informatics at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Dr. Gurcan received his BSc. and Ph.D. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bilkent University, Turkey, and his MSc. in Digital Systems Engineering from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, England. Dr. Gurcan is the recipient of several awards, including the British Foreign and Commonwealth Organization Award, NCI caBIG Embodying the Vision Award, NIH Exceptional, Unconventional Research Enabling Knowledge Acceleration (EUREKA) Award, Children’s Neuroblastoma Cancer Foundation Young Investigator Award, The OSU Cancer Center REAP Award, and Pelotonia Idea Award. He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Pathology Informatics, BJR | Artificial Intelligence, and SPIE Journal of Medical Imaging. He has organized the Pathology Informatics Histopathological Image Analysis (HIMA) workshop since 2013. He chairs the NIH Clinical Translational Imaging Science (CTIS) Study Section.
Dr. M. Khalid Khan Niazi is an Associate Professor of Artificial Intelligence at Wake Forest School of Medicine. He received his FSc, Ph.D., Post Doc degree from PAF College Mianwali, Uppsala University, and The Ohio State University College of Medicine, respectively. He was first a Lecturer at the COMSATS Institute of Information Technology from 2004 to 2006, then served as a Research Scientist at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center from 2012 to 2018, and proceeded as an Assistant Professor at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine. His area of expertise lies in digital and computational pathology.
