News

Sep 10 2025

Tahmid's first paper accepted at IEEE ICMLA2025, FL conference, a flagship venue in ML applications. Congratulation ! Tahmid

Aug 21 2025

Our first collaborative abstract accepted at Geological Society  of America, GSA CONNECTS 2025, San Antonio conference, one of the top venues in geoscience. Congratulation ! Tahmid and Dr Kibria

Jun 29 2025

Jilani's first paper accepted at IEEE SMC2025, Vienna conference, one of the top venues in Cybernetics. Congratulation ! Jilani 

Jan 5  2025

Two PhD students joined VITAL lab. Welcome, Golam Jilani and Tahmid A.B. Haroon

Aug 16  2025

VITAL lab is a part of Department of Computer Science at Southern Illinois University Carbondale IL

Aug 16  2025

Joined as Tenure-track Assistant Professor Of Computer Science at Southern Illinois University Carbondale IL.

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Sep 29  2022

Workshop (Online) attended: "Version Control with Git and Data Management Perspectives" 1:00-4:00,  by Daniel Perrefort, Ph.D. Assistant Research professor, Uni of Pittsburgh. 

Sep 6  2022

Course completed:  Credit 2, "Advances in Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment: Mammography, Breast Biopsy, SBRT, APBI" CAMPEP Commission on Accreditation of Medical Physics Education Programs, Inc. Certificate of Medical Physics Continuing Education Credits, at 2022 AAPM 64th Annual Meeting & Exhibition, 7/12/2022 (CAMPEPID# 94446)

Aug 10  2022

Conference submission: 2023 CAD SPIE Medical Imaging, San Diego, CA 

Aug 2  2022

Medical Physics Journal: Pre-print Paper published online, https://doi.org/10.1002/mp.15883 

July 11-13  2022

Conference attend: AAPM research grant reception at 2022 AAPM annual meeting, Washington DC 

June 22  2022

Kick-off meeting  started between Pitt-UPenn teams for research collaboration for the AAPM Research Seed Grant. We will use UPenn's VCT system for DBT image dataset construction.

May 26  2022

Awarded AAPM Research Seed Grant 2022-2023, American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), Website, http://gaf.aapm.org/education/edfund.php

May 11  2022

Associate editor, Regular track (Cybernetics), IEEE Int. Conf. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (IEEE SMC2022), Prague, Czech Republic, October 9-12, 2022

Aug 15  2021,

Attended workshop on "Data Basic", Uni of Pittsburgh,  http://rce.pitt.edu/

May 31  2021,

Submitted AAPM seed grant, 2021 

April 15  2021,

Workshop on training Deep learning model in Pittsburgh supercomputing Center (PSC), Attended a day long workshop

March 19 2021,

MICCAI 2021 Reviewer: Accepted reviewer invitation from MICCAI 2021,  https://miccai2021.org/en/INSTRUCTIONS-TO-REVIEWERS.html 

March 18, 2021, 

Served as Judge for poster competition 'Health Disparities Poster Competition'  at the 2021 Health Disparities and Social Justice Poster Session at University of Pittsburgh, PA on Thursday, March 25, 2021 from 1PM to 3PM (virtual). 

March 18 2020

• Postdoctoral (PDDA) orientation: carrier path discussion from the PDDA University of Pittsburgh 

• Workshop attended: Attending to lecture  on Explicit layer in deep learning by Dr. Z. Kotler, CMU, in virtual workshop  C3DTI Colloquium on Digital Transformation Science - Spring 2021 from the Stanford University.

Jan 15 -26 2021

Dataset challenge participation: Dec 14 2020 - Jan 26 2021- Participated (Team name: Team-PittRad, Led by Dr Juhun Lee) in the DBTex Grand Challenge,  to submit algorithms for the detection of biopsy-proven breast lesions on digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) images,  "SPIE-AAPM-NCI DAIR Digital Breast Tomosynthesis Lesion Detection Challenge (DBTex)'', organized by SPIE, AAPM, NCI and DAIR. We placed 5th in the validation phase. and ranked 7/136 in test result, Feb 4, 2021

Dec. 15 2020

The Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) training, CITI training 

Nov 16 2020

Joined as Postdoctoral associate in the department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), Pittsburgh, PA. 

Oct 30 2020

Left Job at University of Hyogo / Visiting Researcher / JSPS research fellow

July 2 2020

Received job offer-letter from the University of Pittsburgh

Oct 15, 2019

Our collaborative research grant between my current laboratory (U Hyogo) and department of Electrical Engineering, Qatar university accepted NPRP12s grant (~600K USD, 3 yrs) funding from Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) on diabetic sensorimotor polyneuropathy diagnosis.  Our responsibility is to develop Machine learning algorithm using EMG signal to estimate severity of the disease

March 23, 2019

Submitted collaborative research letter to Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Qatar university for a new grant proposal- QJRC-2020 program (QATAR-JAPAN RESEARCH COLLABORATION). Max USD $200K , 2 Yrs)

November 19, 2018

Joined as Visiting Researcher at the graduate school of engineering, University of Hyogo, Engineering Campus, Himeji, Japan

November 12, 2018

Awarded a JSPS Grant-in-Aid (18F18377) of  ~ 21K USD  for two years (2018-11-09 ~ 2021-03-31) on research project "AI-based Computer-Aided-Orthpaedic-Surgery Navigation System"  as guest  PI with professor Syoji Kobashi (host PI)

Aug 15, 2018

Awarded JSPS fellowship- standard 2018, It was a challenging competition acceptance rate is 9% only,  https://www.jsps.go.jp/english/e-fellow/data/30-2-e.pdf

Sept, 2018

Graduated with a PhD , Dept. of Computer Science at the University 0f Hyogo,  Himeji, Japan

Oct 14, 2017

Received best paper award at the 17th International Symposium on Advanced Intelligent Systems (ISIS),  Daegu, S. Korea, Oct. 2017, http://isis2017.org/ 

Oct 15, 2016

Received student presentation award at the Osaka University from Kansai Chapter of the Japan Society for Fuzzy Intelligence, http://www.eng.u-hyogo.ac.jp/topics/oshirase/detail/20161020001.html , http://amec-hyogo.org/200/ 

Oct 1, 2015

Admitted as PhD student, Dept. of Computer Science at the University 0f Hyogo,  Himeji, Japan