Lekadir, Karim

Engineering Sciences

Universitat de Barcelona (UB)

Phone +34622229535

Email karim.lekadir@ub.edu

Department Matemàtiques & Informàtica

Address Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes 585

Keywords

Artificial intelligence
inclusive science
biomedical data science
medical imaging
personalised medicine
global health

Short biography Research interests Ongoing grants Publications Conferences & workshops PhDs, masters & TFGs

Short biography

Karim Lekadir is an ICREA Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Barcelona. He studied mathematics and computer science as an undergraduate in France and Germany. He obtained his PhD from Imperial College London and was a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University. He investigates new data science techniques for trustworthy and ethical artificial intelligence in medicine. He has been PI in 12 EU-funded projects, coordinated 5 Horizon projects, and was awarded an ERC Consolidator grant to investigate new AI techniques tailored to resource-limited settings.