MBZUAI Winter School 2025
Abstract
The MBZUAI Winter School is part of the wider MICCAI 2026 initiatives, which will bring the global medical imaging community to Abu Dhabi. This program aims to increase research outcomes from the MENA region by creating opportunities for young researchers to learn from international experts and collaborate with peers. By welcoming students from low- and middle-income countries, the school supports capacity building and strengthens the region’s contribution to the global research landscape.
Agenda - GMT+4
Day 1: November 18 – Medical Vision in Radiology
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM: Welcome and Opening Remarks
Mohammad Yaqub - Associate Professor of Computer Vision, MBZUAI
9:30 AM - 10:45 AM: Invited Talk: Case studies taking Medical Image Analysis to the Clinic
Prof. Sir Michael Brady - Emeritus Professor of Oncological Imaging, Department of Oncology at the University of Oxford and Distinguished Professor of Computer Vision, MBZUAI
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM: Coffee Break
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM: Tutorial 1: Overview of Head & Neck Cancer Analysis using CT/PET Images
Muhammad Ridzuan - Presight
Shahad Hardan - PhD Student, MBZUAI
Salma Hassan - PhD Student, MBZUAI
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM: Lunch Break
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM: Tutorial 2: Graph Neural Networks for Modelling Brain Imaging (MRI)
Mostafa Salem - Postdoctoral fellow, MBZUAI
3:00 PM - 3:15 PM: Coffee Break
3:15 PM - 4:00 PM: Invited Talk: Towards AI-Driven Digital Organism: A System of Multiscale Foundation Models for Biology
Le Song - CTO of GenBio and Professor of Machine Learning, MBZUAI
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM: Invited Talk: The Exciting but Challenging path Towards Intelligence and Automation in Robotic Surgery
Nassir Navab - Professor of Computer Science, Technische Universität München
4:45 PM - 5:00 PM: Day 1 Wrap-up and Q&A
Day 2: November 19 - Foundational Models & Computational Biology
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM: Welcome and Day 2 Overview
Mohammad Yaqub - Associate Professor of Computer Vision, MBZUAI
9:15 AM - 10:00 AM: Talk: Medical Artificial Intelligence: From Foundation Models, AI Agents, to Human-AI Collaboration
Jianing Qiu - Assistant Professor of Personalized Medicine, MBZUAI
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM: Keynote Address: Computational Biology/Foundation models
David Clifton - Associate Professor of Engineering Science, University of Oxford
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM: Coffee Break
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM: Tutorial 3: Genomics Data Carpentry
Aziz Khan - Assistant Professor of Computational Biology, MBZUAI
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM: Lunch Break
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM: Tutorial 4: Foundation Models for Cardiac Ultrasound
Numan Saeed - Postdoctoral Fellow, MBZUAI
Ahmed Aly - MSc Student, MBZUAI
Darya Taratynova - MSc Student, MBZUAI
3:00 PM - 3:15 PM: Coffee Break
3:15 PM - 4:00 PM: Keynote Talk
Shadab Khan - ADIA Lab
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM: Closing Remarks and Certificates
Mohammad Yaqub - Associate Professor of Computer Vision, MBZUAI
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM: Networking Session / Informal Discussions
Jaeyoung Cho
Website Coordinator/PhD Candidate
born in Korea, raised in several countries, and now live in Germany