Oak Ridge National Laboratory/Universite de Bourgogne
2011
MSc
Computer Vision and Robotics
Heriot-Watt University/Universitat de Girona/Universite de Bourgogne
2008
BSc
Software Engineering
Southampton Solent University
2005
Research and Expertise
Research Interests
Dr. Luca Giancardo is an Assistant Professor at the Center for Precision Health, School of Biomedical Informatics (SBMI), University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) with co-appointments at the McGovern Medical School and the Institute for Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases, UTHealth. He is a computer scientist by training with extensive experience in image/signal analysis and machine learning applied to biomedical sciences.
His work has been applied to a number of biomedical applications, such as stroke diagnosis, diabetic retinopathy screening or neurodegenerative disease tracking and successfully translated to industry with two startups based on his methods. One, Hubble Telemedical, was acquired by Welch Allyn, another, nQ-Medical has raised significant investment. He has authored/co-authored more than 60 peer-reviewed articles which were featured by news outlet such as MIT Technology Review, Smithsonian magazine and others. He has received multiple awards including SBMI Dean's Excellence Award for Research and the 100k Singapore Challenge, with the judging panel uniquely composed by Nobel Prize, Turing award and Millennium Technology Prize winners. His research and lab have been supported by competitive grants from the National Institute of Health, Translational Research Institute for Space Health, foundations and private companies.
Publications/Creative Works
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Affiliations
Training Grants
NLM Training Program in Biomedical Informatics & Data Science for Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellows
Research Consortia
Gulf Coast Cluster for Translational Imaging
Gulf Coast Cluster for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
Training Grants
Training in Precision Environmental Health Sciences (TPEHS)
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