Dr. Ali Sadeghi Naini

Biography

Ali Sadeghi-Naini received his MSc in Artificial Intelligence from Tehran Polytechnic University in 2006 and completed his PhD in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Western Ontario in 2011. He participated in the NSERC CREATE program focused on Computer-Assisted Medical Interventions, followed by a four-year postdoctoral fellowship in Medical Biophysics and Radiation Oncology at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto. His postdoctoral research was supported by the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation and awarded the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship by CIHR. He has conducted seminal studies on ultrasonic spectral textural biomarkers for detecting cell death, contributing significantly to the field. In 2015, he initiated his independent research program as a Scientist at the Physical Sciences Platform of Sunnybrook Research Institute. In 2018, he joined the Lassonde School of Engineering at York University and holds cross-appointments with the Department of Medical Biophysics, Sunnybrook Research Institute, and Odette Cancer Centre at the University of Toronto. He is currently an Associate Professor and York Research Chair in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. His professional affiliations include being a registered Professional Engineer in Ontario and a Senior Member of the IEEE Engineering Medicine and Biology and Signal Processing Societies. He is also a member of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) and the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR).

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