Dr. Purang Abolmaesumi
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Faculty of Applied Science
Purang Abolmaesumi received his BSc (1995) and MSc (1997) from Sharif University of Technology, Iran, and his PhD (2002) from UBC, all in electrical engineering. From 2002 to 2009, he was a faculty member with the School of Computing, Queen’s University. He then joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UBC, where he is a Canada Research Chair, Tier II, in Biomedical Engineering and a Professor, with Associate Membership to the Department of Urologic Sciences. He is also the recipient of the Killam Faculty Research Prize and the Killam Award for Excellence in Mentoring at UBC.
Research Focus
Dr. Abolmaesumi is internationally recognized and has received numerous awards for his developments in medical image analysis and image-guided interventions. Dr. Abolmaesumi carries out research in medical imaging, machine learning, and image-guided diagnosis and interventions. Artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques are applied to diagnosis in ultrasound, magnetic resonance imaging, digitized pathology slides and other tissue images.
