Rate My Professor Khan Iftekharuddin

Dr. Iftekharuddin's research specializes in computational modeling, artificial intelligence and machine learning, medical imaging and genomics analysis for precision medicine, human-machine interaction, cyber-physical systems, and cybersecurity. As principal investigator or co-investigator, he has secured over $24 million in funding from agencies including NSF, NIH, NASA, ARO, and AFRL, notably a $2.3 million NIH grant in 2025 for AI-driven brain tumor recurrence detection. His Vision Lab has ranked among the top teams in global MICCAI/NCI brain tumor segmentation challenges since 2014, achieving first place in the 2017 BraTS challenge. A highly cited researcher in the top 2% globally per Stanford University metrics, he has co-authored the book Digital Image Processing in SPIE’s Field Guide series, over 2,500 refereed journal papers and conference proceedings, 11 book chapters, and holds four U.S. patents. His accolades include the 2023 SCHEV Outstanding Faculty Award, election as Fellow of Optica in 2025, AIMBE in 2024, and SPIE in 2004, ODU Eminent Scholar in 2024, ODU Researcher of the Year in 2014, and University of Memphis Herff Outstanding Faculty Research Award in 2011. He has served as Senior Editor for Optical Engineering, Associate Editor for multiple IEEE Transactions, and organized symposia and workshops on biologically inspired computational vision.