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.

Beyond academia, Omar has held senior roles including Chief AI Scientist and Lead Full Stack Developer at an AI Edutech startup. His professional experience includes work with the United Nations International Computing Centre (UNICC), Discover Financial Services, and Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. He is also a Director of OC Solutions Ltd, a company providing bespoke information technology, software solutions, and consultancy services across multiple domains. In addition, Omar has extensive teaching, tutoring, and volunteering experience in schools and organisations internationally, including King Saud University in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia through the prestigious Mawhiba programme, which admits only the most exceptional students in the Middle East.