Webinar: AI and ML Approaches for Improving Biomedicine and Healthcare (SIG-HLTH)

Dr. Javed Mostafa

Dr. Javed Mostafa is a Professor and the Dean of the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on multimedia information retrieval, personalization, and user modeling as well as cyberinfrastructure for research and learning. Professor Mostafa came to U of T in September 2023 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he served as a Professor and the founding Director of an interdisciplinary informatics training program called the Carolina Health Informatics Program (CHIP), which oversaw collaboration among seven UNC academic units. Previously, at Indiana University, Bloomington, Professor Mostafa held the Victor H. Yngve Endowed Professorship, and he also served as an Associate Dean of Academics and an Associate Dean of Research. Professor Mostafa completed his PhD in information science at the University of Texas at Austin in 1994, with a focus on developing query models for multimedia information. With more than 105 peer-reviewed publications of his own, Javed has served in editorial roles for several prestigious journals in the field. He was the editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, an associate editor for the journal ACM Transactions on Information Systems and currently serves as an associate editor for the journal ACM Transactions on Internet Technology. At U of T, he directs the Laboratory of Applied Informatics Research (https://lairhub.com/). He is also the co-founder of two U.S.-based companies: KeonaHealth and Cymantix.