Ahmed Serag
Dr. Ahmed Serag is a distinguished AI expert with nearly 20 years of experience, renowned for his contributions to the development and commercialization of AI technologies. He currently leads the AI Innovation Lab, driving groundbreaking research in AI.
Before joining Cornell, Dr. Serag has held prominent leadership roles, including serving as VP Global Director of Data Science and AI Innovation at Novartis, and driving advancements in AI algorithms for cancer diagnostics at Philips. Holding a Ph.D. from Imperial College London, he is a prolific author, keynote speaker, and advisor, dedicated to shaping global standards in AI innovation and its ethical application.
News
Publications
M3: Multimodal AI for Medical Report Generation and Visual Question Answering from 3D Abdominal CT Scans
ChatCVD: A Retrieval-Augmented Chatbot for Personalized Cardiovascular Risk Assessment with a Comparison of Medical-Specific and General-Purpose LLMs
D3: A Small Language Model for Drug-Drug Interaction prediction and comparison with Large Language Models
A Multimodal Deep Learning Model for the Classification of Breast Cancer Subtypes
Vision transformers for automated detection of diabetic peripheral neuropathy in corneal confocal microscopy images
Is synthetic data generation effective in maintaining clinical biomarkers? Investigating diffusion models across diverse imaging modalities
Self-Supervised Learning Powered by Synthetic Data From Diffusion Models: Application to X-Ray Images
Optimizing ICU Readmission Prediction: A Comparative Evaluation of AI Tools
AI Research Themes
Natural Language Processing
Computer Vision
Multi-Modal Learning
Research Commercialisation
Automated Tumor Markup and Quantification
Brain Metabolism Evaluation
Team
Dr. Chaima Rabah (Senior Researcher) 
Dr. Wafa Lakhdhar (Senior Researcher) 
Dr. Lamiaa Basyoni (Senior Researcher) 
Abdullah Hosseini (Researcher) 
Ahmed Ibrahim (Researcher) 
Hoda Helmy (Researcher) 
Aamenah Sattar (Affiliated Researcher) 
Maryam Arabi (Researcher) 
Aya Alshareef (Researcher) 
Abdallah Khalili (Intern) 
Abdul-Rahman Abdul-Fattah (Intern) 
Dhruv Anand (Intern) 
Salma Shehata (Intern) 
Sajna Tasneem (Intern) 
Gousia Khanam (Intern) 
Hayat Rakab (Intern)