Hossein Farahani

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Curriculum Vitae



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At a glance

Research Associate & Machine Learning Lead in the AI in Medicine Lab (PI: A. Bashashati), School of Biomedical Engineering, University of British Columbia. 2,772 citations · h-index 18 · i10-index 25 (Google Scholar, May 2026).

Education

  • Ph.D., Computer Science (Computational Biology)
    KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm · 2013
  • M.Sc., Space Science & Technology
    University of Würzburg, Germany · 2007
  • M.Sc., Mechatronics
    Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology, South Korea · 2005
  • B.Sc., Mechanical Engineering
    Sharif University of Technology, Tehran · 2000

Service & activities

  • Co-Lead Organizer — UBC-OCEAN International Kaggle Competition

    Ovarian-cancer subtype classification and outlier detection on whole-slide histopathology — an international machine-learning challenge.

  • Journal Reviewer

    Nature Communications, Nature Machine Intelligence, npj Digital Medicine, Medical Image Analysis, Genome Research, Scientific Reports, PLOS ONE.

  • Conference Reviewer

    MICCAI, CVPR, NeurIPS, ICML.

  • University Service

    UBC Faculty Association — Anti-Racism & Indigenous Initiatives Committee (2024–). SBME Social Committee (2024–).

Awards

  • EU Erasmus Mundus Scholarship · M.Sc., University of Würzburg · 2005–2007
  • Korean Government IT Scholarship · M.Sc., GIST · 2003–2005