Dr Yaqub is an associate professor at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Dr Yaqub is a highly motivated biomedical computer science and engineering academic who completed his PhD from the University of Oxford in 2011. He has more than 18 years of teaching experience in higher education alongside 11 years of research experience in world leading institutions. His domain knowledge is Artificial Intelligence (AI), machine learning, big data, and biomedical image analysis. In addition, he is a university lecturer at IT services, University of Oxford and a research fellow at the Nuffield department of clinical neurosciences (NDCN), University of Oxford.
Dr Yaqub has 7 years of industrial experience in translational research where he took his research ideas from an academic set up to an ISO-13485 regulated medical device of a high-value commercial product which shall be used in real-world clinical settings. The product has recently been licensed exclusively to the world leading ultrasound machine manufacturer (name is confidential) and will be going to market at the second half of 2020.
Dr Yaqub is also the founder of Labib AI, MBZUAI first startup.