Omar Choudhry is a PhD candidate on the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) AI-Medical (Artificial Intelligence for Medical Diagnosis and Care) programme and recipient of the ESPRC Studentship Award at the University of Leeds. His research focuses on harnessing AI, specifically deep learning and medical image analysis, to derive insights into enhancing surgical skill assessment and surgical training, particularly in low-resource settings.

He has had industry experience with the United Nations International Computing Centre (UNICC), Discover Financial Services and Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. He is a part-time lead full-stack developer and AI engineer for an AI Edutech startup. He also has teaching, tutoring and volunteering experience in schools and other organisations, including King Saud University in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Mawhiba.