Invited Speaker

Dr. Tanzila Saba, Research Professor

Dr. Tanzila Saba, Research Professor

College of Computer and Information Sciences, Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia
Speech Title: AI in Healthcare: State of the Art, Current Trends and Future Possibilities

Abstract: Artificial intelligence in healthcare has been a particularly hot research topic in recent years. Artificial intelligence has come a long way since it was first established as a field in 1956. It has been playing a critical role in industries for decades. AI has only recently begun to take a leading role in healthcare. A recent McKinsey review predicted healthcare as one of the top five industries with more than 50 use cases that would involve AI. This transformative technology is revolutionizing the health sectors in many ways, from drug development to clinical research; AI has helped improve patient outcomes at reduced costs. Numerous applications of AI such as virtual assistants, robotic assisted surgery, are well positioned to improve patient care and potentially save lives. While there is a sense of great potential in the application of AI in healthcare, there are also concerns of privacy, accuracy, data ownership, integrity, data usability about it. This talk will highlight the current applications, future innovations and possible issues of AI applications in healthcare.


Biography: Prof. Dr.Tanzila Saba earned her PhD in document information security and management from Faculty of Computing, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Malaysia in 2012. She won the best student award in the Faculty of Computing UTM for 2012. Currently, she is serving as an Associate Chair of Information Systems Department in the College of Computer and Information Sciences Prince Sultan University Riyadh KSA. Her primary research focus in recent years is medical imaging, pattern recognition, data mining, MRI analysis, and Soft-computing. She has above one hundred publications that have around 4329 citations with h-index 42. Her mostly publications are in biomedical research published in ISI/SCIE indexed. Due to her excellent research achievement, she is included in Marquis Who’s Who (S & T) 2012.” Currently, she is the editor and reviewer of reputed journals and on the panel of TPC of international conferences. On the accreditation side, she is a skilled lady with ABET & NCAAA quality assurance. She is the senior member of IEEE. Dr.Tanzila is the leader of the Artificial Intelligence & Data Analytics Research Lab at PSU and active professional members of ACM, AIS and IAENG organizations. She is the PSU WiDS (Women in Data Science) ambassador at Stanford University. She received the Best Researcher award for four consecutive years at PSU and has been nominated as a Research Professor at PSU since September 2019. She has been invited as a keynote speaker at numerous international forums and conferences.