Dr. Ali Bashashati is an Associate Professor with the Department of Pathology and School of Biomedical Engineering at UBC and Director of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Bioinformatics Research in BC's Ovarian Cancer Research Program (OVCARE). Dr. Bashashati's research area lies at the interface between computational, engineering and biomedical sciences. He is interested in developing machine-learning algorithms to combine various sources of imaging, digital pathology and 'omics data in the context of cancer. Dr. Bashashati aims to improve pathology efficiency, identify new biomarkers for treatment selection and derive biological insights for various health conditions with major emphasis on cancer. He has published extensively in cancer genomics, bioinformatics, computational pathology, and machine learning. His papers have appeared in top-tier journals such as Nature, Nature Genetics, and Nature Medicine as well as top-tier AI conferences.

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