Nasir Rajpoot
Tissue Image Analytics (TIA) Lab University of Warwick, UK
Nasir Rajpoot is Professor of Computational Pathology at the Computer Science department of the University of Warwick, where he started his academic career as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in 2001. He also holds an Honorary Scientist position at the Department of Pathology, University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust since 2016.
Prof Rajpoot is the founding Head of Tissue Image Analytics laboratory (TIA lab) at Warwick since 2012. In Autumn 2017, he was awarded the Wolfson Fellowship by the UK Royal Society and the Turing Fellowship by the Alan Turing Institute, the UK’s national institute for data science and artificial intelligence.
Current focus of research in Prof Rajpoot’s lab is on developing algorithms for the analysis of digitised pathology images, with applications to computer-assisted grading of cancer and image-based markers for prediction of cancer progression and survival. He has been active in the digital pathology community for almost a decade now, having co-chaired several meetings in the histology image analysis (HIMA) series since 2008 and served as a founding PC member of the SPIE Digital Pathology meeting since 2012.
Prof Rajpoot served as the President of the European Congress on Digital Pathology (ECDP), which was held at Warwick in April 2019. Since Jan 2019, he acts as Co-Director of the £15m PathLAKE national centre of excellence on AI in pathology, leading the computational arm of the centre.