Invited Speakers of MICAD 2026

Assoc. Prof. Sharib Ali

University of Leeds, UK

Dr. Sharib Ali is an associate Professor at the School of Computer Science, University of Leeds, UK, and a visiting fellow at the Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford. He specialises in computer vision, medical imaging, and surgical AI and leads “AI for Medicine and Surgery” group at Leeds. He is an appointed member of the Royal Society’s Newton International Fellowships Committee and recipient of prestigious Springboard award from Academy of Medical Sciences and New Investigator Award from Engineering and Physical Sciences. He has published over 150 peer-reviewed papers included in top-tier conferences and journals (IEEE TMI, IEEE TNNLS, Medical Image Analysis). He has been guest/keynote speaker at several international events (Orsi Innotech 2026, London Biotechnology Show’25, MICAI/IEEE CBMS conference and ISBI/MICCAI workshops). He is initiator of several data science challenges and workshops at international conferences such as MICCAI and IEEE ISBI. He also served as a general chair for MIUA 2025 and programme committee member for IEEE CBMS, for which he serves as steering committee member now. He is one of the founding members of a non-profit research organisation in Nepal “NAAMII“ and there he currently serves as a volunteering researcher position.