Dr. Khan Iftekharuddin is a professor and Batten Endowed Chair in Machine Learning in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Old Dominion University (ODU). His research includes Computational modeling; AI and machine learning; Medical imaging, genomics, and proteomics analysis for precision medicine; Human-machine interaction, and Cyber-physical systems and cybersecurity.

Dr. Iftekharuddin is the winner of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia’s (SCHEV) outstanding faculty award for the highest standards of teaching, scholarship and service in the State of VA, 2023. He is awarded Old Dominion University’s 2020 Faculty Research, Scholarship and Creative Achievement Award. He obtained the best researcher award from three different academic institutions: ODU’s Batten College of Engineering and Technology Research Excellence Award for 2014; University of Memphis’s Herff Outstanding Faculty Research Award in the college of Engineering and Technology for 2011; and North Dakota State University’s Researcher of the Year Award in college of Engineering and Architecture for 2000, respectively. His lab has consistently ranked among top four teams in Global Brain Tumor Segmentation and Patient Survivability Prediction Challenges co-organized by MICCIA and NCI since 2014. Different federal and private funding agencies and industries such as NSF, NIH, NASA, ARO, AFRL, NAVY, US DOT, the Whitaker Foundation, FedEx and Timken Research among others have funded his research.