Dr Mohammed Abdelsamea

I'm a senior lecturer (E&R) in computer science (machine learning and computer vision) and a fellow of the British Higher Education Academy (HEA). In 2016, I was a Marie Curie fellow in Medical Image Analysis, working in the Computer Science Department at the University of Nottingham.

 Previously, I was an Assistant Professor in data and information science at Birmingham City University, where I was the leading member of the computer vision research team. I also worked in the Mechanochemical Cell Biology Devision at the University of Warwick, the Nottingham Molecular Pathology Node (NMPN) at the University of Nottingham, and the Division of Cancer and Stem Cells at the University of Nottingham, as a Research Fellow. I'm an associate editor for the BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making journal and an Academic Editor for PLOS ONE journal, and I've also served as a guest editor for several special issues including Applied Sciences and Diagnostic journals.

I was awarded a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering (with a Doctor’s Europaeus degree) from Scuola IMT Alti Studi Lucca, in Italy. 

Throughout my career, I've had the privilege of collaborating with diverse teams of experts in fields ranging from biology and geology to entomology, pathology, engineering, and computer science in Egypt, Singapore, Italy, and the United Kingdom. My current research interests are concerned with the development of novel artificial intelligence (statistical machine learning and deep learning) solutions, with the overall ambition to assist human investigation in healthcare and data science applications. More precisely, I’m most interested in carrying out research on different theoretical foundations in computer vision and machine learning such as:

• Deep learning and statistical machine learning.
• Explainable AI for healthcare.
• Energy functional optimisation for computer vision tasks.
• Machine teaching and active learning.
• Uncertainty quantification.
• Self-supervision and transfer learning.
• Static and dynamic deep ensemble.
• Multimodal learning.

PhD Students (***I am accepting self-funded/sponsored PhD students. If you are interested to work with me, please email me your CV.)

Former PhD students

• Dr. Zakaria Senousy - First Supervisor (@BCU, UK) [Project: Medical Image Classification using Deep Learning Techniques and Uncertainty Quantification, 2023]. Dr Zakaria is a senior data scientist at Unversity College London.
• Dr. Usama Zidan - First Supervisor (@BCU, UK) [Project: Applied Patch-Based Deep Learning for Enhanced Computer Vision, 2024]. Dr Usama is a Postdoctoral researcher at Oxford University.

Current PhD students @ Exeter University

• Amani Alsaeedi (Medical School).
• Anwaar Asiri (Medical School).

Current PhD students Outside Exeter University

• Asmaa Abbas - External supervisor (@BCU, UK).
• Dhoyazan Al-Turki - External supervisor (@BCU, UK).
• Ahmed Wahab - External supervisor (@BCU, UK).
• Abdullah Basaad - External supervisor (@BCU, UK).