Join GW Engineering's Department of Computer Science for this exciting interdisciplinary event focusing on natural language procession for health class! This event, hosted by CS Assistant Professor Aya Zirikly, will feature speaker Ahmed Hassoon of Johns Hopkins University.

Dr. Hassoon is an assistant research professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, with a joint appointment in the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery at the School of Medicine. Hassoon is also a member of the Data-Trust AI Sub-council for AI in Hospital Operations, a committee that reviews AI products before adopting them in Johns Hopkins Hospital operations. Hassoon's research interests lie in the application of data science and AI to improve health care quality and safety, specifically diagnostic safety. His goal is to reimagine how we deliver clinical care by building safe multi-agent AI models for genuine knowledge discovery, which can reason across different modalities to improve diagnostic accuracy. He is a recipient of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Mentored Clinical Scientist Research Career Development Award (K08) with a focus on improving cancer diagnostic safety at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He is also a 2024 Fellow of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.