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Dr. Khan Iftekharuddin is a professor and Batten Endowed Chair in Machine Learning in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Old Dominion University (ODU). He served as an Interim Dean in Batten College of Engineering and Technology for 2021-2022. He served as Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies/Innovation (ADR) for 2017 – 2021 and 2022 – 2023. He concurrently serves as a director of ODU Vision Lab since 2011. Prior to the ADR position, Dr. Iftekharuddin served as Chair of ECE Department at ODU for 2013-2017. He received his MS (1991) and PhD (1995) degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Dayton, OH.

Dr. Iftekharuddin was the winner of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia’s (SCHEV) outstanding faculty award for the highest standards of teaching, scholarship and service in the State of VA, 2023. He has been cited among the top 2% researchers in the globe for both career long impact and single-year impact, Research by Stanford University, published online, 2020 and 2021. He is awarded Old Dominion University’s 2020 Faculty Research, Scholarship and Creative Achievement Award. He obtained the best researcher award from three different academic institutions: ODU’s Batten College of Engineering and Technology Research Excellence Award for 2014; University of Memphis’s Herff Outstanding Faculty Research Award in the college of Engineering and Technology for 2011; and North Dakota State University’s Researcher of the Year Award in college of Engineering and Architecture for 2000, respectively. His lab has consistently ranked among top four teams in Global Brain Tumor Segmentation and Patient Survivability Prediction Challenges co-organized by MICCIA and NCI since 2014. He has served as the PI for over $23 million externally funded research projects and successfully led multiple national and international collaborative research projects. Different federal and private funding agencies and industries such as NSF, NIH, NASA, ARO, AFRL, NAVY, US DOT, the Whitaker Foundation, FedEx and Timken Research among others have funded his research.

Dr. Iftekharuddin coauthored a book titled, “Digital Image Processing”, in SPIE’s Field Guide series. He is the principal author of about two ad fifty hundred refereed journal papers and conference proceedings; and eleven book chapters respectively. He us a co-inventor of four US patents. He further has two patent applications pending.

He had been invited to serve as a charter member for NIH’s Biomedical Computing and Health Informatics (BCHI) study section (2009- 2013) and Biomedical Imaging Technology (BMIT) study section (2015-2019), respectively. He also routinely serves on many NIH’s panels in Imaging, Data Analytics, Alzheimer and Cancer, and NSF’s EPAS, S&CC, CPS, SCH, IIS and other panels, NASA, NSERC (Canada), Swiss National Foundation, and ARO on a regular basis. He further reviewed Center grants for NSF and NIH.

He is an elected fellow of AIMBE and SPIE and a senior member of IEEE, NNS and Optica (OSA).

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