Mohamed Harmanani
Doctoral Researcher, Deep Learning/Medical Imaging
Vector Institute, Toronto, Canada
Med-i Lab, Queen's University

CV

I am a PhD Student at the Vector Institute and Queen's University, supervised by Dr. Parvin Mousavi. My main research interests are in Computer Vision, Deep Learning, and Trustworthy AI in Healthcare and Medicine. More specifically, my research focuses on designing, training, and deploying trustworthy deep learning models for disease diagnosis and computer-assisted interventions at the point-of-care. I am also a recipient of the Bruce Mitchell Research Fellowship. Previously, I completed my MSc in Artificial Intelligence at Queen's and my HBSc in Computer Science and Philosophy at the University of Toronto. I am also a former recipient of the Robert Sutherland Fellowship at Queen's and a graduate of the NSERC MediCREATE training program.


Education

PhD. in Artificial Intelligence, Queen's University

Advisor: Parvin Mousavi

2024 - Present
MSc. in Artificial Intelligence, Queen's University

Advisor: Parvin Mousavi
Thesis: Towards a Reliable Deep Learning Framework for Prostate Cancer Diagnosis using Ultrasound

2022 - 2024
HBSc. in Computer Science & Philosophy, University of Toronto
2016 - 2021

Experience

Doctoral Researcher, Vector Institute/Queen's University (with Parvin Mousavi on AI/ML for healthcare) 2024 - Present
Graduate Researcher, Vector Institute/Queen's University (with Parvin Mousavi on AI/ML for healthcare) 2022 - 2024
Data Scientist, Flinks, Montréal (PyTorch, BERT, NLP) 2021 - 2022
Research Intern, University of Toronto (with Lisa Zhang on ML and NLP) 2021
Research Assistant, University of Toronto (with Katharina Braeutigam on bioinformatics) 2020 - 2021
Software Engineer, Venngage, Toronto (TypeScript & React.js development) 2019 - 2020

Publications & Preprints

Calibrated Diverse Ensemble Entropy Minimization for Robust Test-Time Adaptation in Prostate Cancer Detection
M. Gilany, M. Harmanani, PFR. Wilson, MNN. To, A. Jamzad, F. Fooladgar, B. Wodlinger, P Abolmaesumi, P. Mousavi
MICCAI 2024 Workshop on Machine Learning for Medical Imaging (MLMI)
ProstNFound: Integrating Foundation Models with Ultrasound Domain Knowledge and Clinical Context for Robust Prostate Cancer Detection
PFR. Wilson, MNN. To, A. Jamzad, M. Gilany, M. Harmanani, T. Elghareb, F. Fooladgar, B. Wodlinger, P. Abolmaesumi, P. Mousavi
Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2024
Early Accept (Top 11%)
LensePro: Label Noise-Tolerant Prototype-Based Network for Improving Cancer Detection in Prostate Ultrasound with Limited Annotations
MNN. To, F. Fooladgar*, PFR. Wilson*, M. Harmanani*, M. Gilany, S. Sojoudi, A. Jamzad, S. Chang, P. Black,
P. Mousavi, P Abolmaesumi
International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (IJCARS), 2024
Toward Confident Prostate Cancer Detection using Ultrasound: A Multi-Center Study
PFR. Wilson, M. Harmanani, MNN. To, M. Gilany, A. Jamzad, F. Fooladgar, B. Wodlinger, P. Abolmaesumi, P. Mousavi
International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (IJCARS), 2024
🥈 Best Paper Runner-up (MICCAI 2022 Special Issue)
Benchmarking Image Transformers for Prostate Cancer Detection from Ultrasound Data
M. Harmanani, PFR. Wilson, F. Fooladgar, A. Jamzad, M. Gilany, MNN. To, B. Wodlinger, P. Abolmaesumi, P. Mousavi
SPIE Medical Imaging 2024
Modelling the Spread of COVID-19 in Indoor Spaces using Probabilistic Automated Planning
M. Harmanani
ICAPS 2023 Scheduling and Planning Applications woRKshop (SPARK 2023)
Using Deep Learning to Localize Errors in Student Code Submissions
S. Fujimori, M. Harmanani, O. Siddiqui, and L. Zhang
ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2022)

Teaching

F2024 Teaching Assistant, Neural & Genetic Computing (CISC 452) at Queen's
W2024 Head Teaching Assistant, Algorithms I (CISC 365) at Queen's
F2023 Teaching Assistant, Neural & Genetic Computing (CISC 452) at Queen's
W2023 Teaching Assistant, Intro to Data Analytics (CISC 151) at Queen's

Honors & Awards

2024 - 2028
Bruce Mitchell Research Fellowship
Awarded to doctoral trainees "above and beyond the normal graduate trainee complement"
2023
Vector Institute Research Grant
Awarded to Vector researchers to support research in AI/ML
2023
NSERC MediCREATE Central Line Challenge, 2nd Place
Developed a deep learning model for (1) surgical tool detection and (2) task identification in surgical videos
2022
Robert Sutherland Fellowship
Awarded to distinguished students at Queen's belonging to a minority group
2022
NSERC MediCREATE Training Award
Awarded to students in the NSERC CREATE training program in medical informatics
2021
University of Toronto Undergraduate Research Grant
Awarded to students in good academic standing to present at a conference
2021
University of Toronto Maths & Computer Science Honour Roll
Awarded to students with a grade of 90% or greater in 3+ Math & Computer Science courses at the University of Toronto in 2020-2021
2021
Excellence 300 Award in Philosophy
Awarded to the student with the highest mark in a 300-level Philosophy class
2016
University of Toronto Entrance Award
Awarded to distinguished students admitted into the Faculty of Arts & Science

Skills

Programming Python, SQL, Java, R, TypeScript, C, C++, Haskell, Make
Frameworks PyTorch, scikit-learn, Keras, NumPy, Pandas, SciPy, TensorFlow, Seaborn, React, Node.js
Toolbox BigQuery, Google Dataflow, GCP, AWS (S3, SageMaker), Linux, DVC, vim, git, zsh, Jupyter