Prof. Ulas Bagci

CEO and Founder of There-AI LLC

Dr Ulas Bagci is founder and CEO of the Ther-AI LLC and he is leading AI efforts at the company. He is also an Associate Professor (with tenure) at the Northwestern University’s Radiology and Biomedical Engineering Department at Chicago. His research interests are artificial intelligence, machine learning and their applications in biomedical and clinical imaging. Dr. Bagci has more than 400 peer-reviewed articles on these topics. Previously, he was a staff scientist and lab co-manager at the National Institutes of Health’s radiology and imaging sciences department, center for infectious disease imaging. Dr. Bagci holds several NIH R01 and U01 grants (as Principal Investigator) and serves as a steering committee member of AIR (artificial intelligence resource) at the NIH. Dr. Bagci also serves as an area chair for MICCAI for several years and he is an associate editor of top-tier journals in his fields such as IEEE Trans. on Medical Imaging, Medical Physics, and Medical Image Analysis. Prof. Bagci teaches machine learning, advanced deep learning methods, computer and robot vision, and medical imaging courses. He has several international and national recognitions including best paper and reviewer awards. At Ther-AI LLC, Dr. BAgci and the team has been awarded an NIH SBIR Phase-I Project, called iLIGN, PI: Dr. Saad Shaikh.