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Dr. Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood

Dr. Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood

IBM Fellow and a Global Imaging AI leader

IBM Research

As a worldwide expert in imaging, she is leading the company's future in Multimodal AI and its applications in many industries including healthcare.  Until recently, she was the Chief Scientist of the Medical Sieve Radiology Grand Challenge that helped launch the field of Radiology AI and the IBM Watson Health Imaging business. As an IBM Fellow, she is also involved in long-term strategic thinking on the evolution of the field of AI. She has over 300 refereed publications and over160 filed patents. Dr. Syeda-Mahmood has chaired many international conferences over the years including IEEE CVPR (2008), IEEE HISB (2011), IEEE ISBI (2021), MICCAI (2023). She is a Fellow of IEEE, MICCAI (Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention),  AIMBE (American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering) and AAIA (Asian Association of Artificial Intelligence).