Resume

Full Name: Hamid Reza Tizhoosh
Nationality: Canadian
Birth Year: 1962
Current Position: Rhazes Lab, Director (Dept. of Artificial Intelligence & Informatics)
Current Address: Mayo Clinic, 200 First St SW, Rochester, MN, USA
Email: tizhoosh.hamid@mayo.edu

Education and Academic Path

• Faculty Affiliate (Artificial Intelligence in Medical Imaging)
  The Vector Institute, June 2018-2022

• Professor (Biomedical Engineering & Computer Science)
  University of Waterloo, 2013-2021

• Associate Professor (Biomedical Engineering & Computer Science)
  University of Waterloo, 2007-2013

• Assistant Professor (Biomedical Engineering & Computer Science)
  University of Waterloo, 2002-2006

• Research Associate (Industrial Engineering)
  University of Toronto, 2001

• Ph.D. (Medical Image Analysis, Radiation Oncology)
  University of Magdeburg, Germany, 2000
  Suma Cum Laude; Honoured as the best PhD thesis in faculty of engineering

• Combined BASc/MASc (“Technische Informatik” – Engineering/Computer Science)
  University of Technology, RWTH Aachen, Germany, 1996

Areas of Expertise

• Medical Imaging & Computer Vision
  Learning to filter, enhance, segment, register, and retrieve digital images; Analysis of ultrasound, CT and MR images; prostate imaging; breast imaging; digital pathology, histopathology, cytology

• Artificial Intelligence and Big Image Data
  Neural Networks, Evolutionary Algorithms, Fuzzy Systems, Reinforcement Learning; classification, clustering, dimensionality reduction, image search, content-based image retrieval, multimodal search, federated learning; generative models, foundation models

Industrial Experience

Company	Position/Dates/Tasks and Responsibilities
Huron Digital Pathology [St. Jacobs, ON]	AI Advisor (December 2016-October 2020) – Design and validation of deep barcodes for image search in large histopathological archives
Ever AI[San Francisco, CA]	Senior AI Advisor (May 2016-January 2017) – Designed and delivered a Python-based face recognition
Segasist Technologies * [Toronto, ON]	Chief Executive Officer (2010-2013) – As the founder and CEO of the company, Dr. Tizhoosh raised almost $2M investment, grants and loans to fund the company. He led a team of 8 employees, coordinated with 4 advisors, one investors group, and more than 10 researchers. Under his leadership, the company finalized product development (prostate imaging software), started clinical validation, finalized it successfully, submitted a 510(k) application to the FDA and received clearance to sell prostate autocontouring software for treatment planning. We sold several licences to two cancer centres, one in US.   Watch YouTube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMnPQ3ia4lE
Segasist Technologies [Toronto, ON]	Chief Technology Officer (2008-2010)  – Design and development of medical imaging software by leading a team of five engineers and postdoctoral researchers
Pratt and Whitney	Consultant (2006-2008) – Consulting on using Terahertz imaging for quality inspection in composite materials; resulted in a report with technical details
Semacode Corporation [Waterloo, ON]	Scientific Advisor (2008-2010) – Consulting on fast image processing on cellular devices; resulted in multiple applications for Android phones and iPhone
Medipattern Corporation[Toronto, ON]	Senior Scientist (2007-2008)  – Consulting on efficient and accurate segmentation of breast lesions in ultrasound images; resulted in a new version of the company’s software “B-CAD”
Sprung-Brett RDI [Waterloo, ON]	Consultant (2008) – Consulting on expert systems
Image Processing Systems Inc. [Markham, ON]	Senior Scientist (2000-2001) – Industrial Image Processing, visual inspection on auto-glass.
M.I.T. GmbH [Aachen, Germany]	Software engineer (1995-1996) – Industrial image processing, software development, fuzzy logic
M.I.T. GmbH [Aachen, Germany]	Intern (1993-1995) – Industrial image processing, software development, fuzzy logic
XPERT GmbH [Aachen, Germany]	Intern (1993-1993)  – Programming of signal processing devices
Prometec GmbH [Aachen, Germany]	Intern (1990-1993) – Manufacturing measurement devices