Faisal Mahmood

About Faisal Mahmood

Faisal is Assistant Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Division of Computational Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital. As a computer scientist, he was “fascinated by the opportunity to build assistive computational tools for diagnosis, prognosis, and therapeutic response and resistance prediction. Pathology has unique challenges and many standard algorithms built for conventional computer vision are often not directly applicable. This makes computational pathology exciting because there is opportunity for developing new methods that address specific (and sometimes critical) clinical problems.” He says his two-year-old son’s visual recognition skills continuously remind him how far computer vision has yet to go.