Saleem Ameen
Founder, Nexus X AI Lab
Fulbright Scholar • MD/PhD Candidate • AI Researcher
Bridging the gap between clinical medicine and artificial intelligence. My work focuses on equitable AI approaches for precision medicine, with a particular interest in ensuring AI tools work safely and effectively for diverse patient populations.
Research Experience
My research bridges the gap between clinical medicine and artificial intelligence, with a focus on fairness, safety, and real-world implementation.
Projects
TRIPOD+LLM Reporting Guidelines
Developed the TRIPOD+LLM guidelines on the publishing of LLM studies in healthcare - accepted in Nature Medicine.
Pediatric Growth Monitoring
Developed LLM-based pipeline (GPT-4) to analyze pediatric growth charts for abnormalities. Explored varying prompt-engineering strategies.
Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnosis
Implemented 3D CNNs and autoencoders to diagnose ASD from fMRI images.
Precision Screening for Colorectal Cancer
Conducted qualitative research with 1st generation migrants and developing a data-driven AI-based Precision Medicine framework to mitigate screening barriers.
Digital Pathology & General AI
Proposed and implemented convolutional autoencoders to learn latent representations of cells in unlabelled pathology data.
Deep Learning for Histological Analysis
Completed a technical review of deep learning approaches for histological analysis of lung tissue and produced a report on practical challenges.
Medical e-Learning System
Built an intelligent case-based medical e-learning web platform and a Wikipedia-based Q&A system using Named-Entity Recognition.
AI in Clinical Practice & Application of Semi-Supervised Learning in Radiology
Evaluated the Stanford CheXpert model on Australian data to explore the role of AI in the triaging of chest X-rays. Proposed an alternative semi-supervised learning approach to address model drift in the Australian context.
Immunology & Cancer
Conducted literature review on the role of the immune system in avoiding cancer and the potential for ML to identify new therapeutic pathways. Received feedback stating research was of exceptional quality.
Multi-Modal CAD for Breast Cancer
Developed a state-of-the-art multi-modal human-in-the-loop ML approach to automatically detect the presence of breast cancer in Fine Needle Aspirates.
AI for Robotic-Assisted Surgery
Technical lead developing an intraoperative AI-assisted surgical guidance system to augment visualization of neurovascular fibres during robotic-assisted rectal cancer surgery. Developed labelling pipeline for CNN training.
Journal Publications
The TRIPOD+LLM Statement: A Targeted Guideline For Reporting Large Language Models Use
Introducing the Team Card: Enhancing Governance for Medical AI Systems in the Age of Complexity
Improving Colorectal Cancer Screening - Consumer-Centred Technological Interventions to Enhance Engagement & Participation Amongst Diverse Cohorts.
AI & Clinical Decision Making: The Limitations & Risks of Computational Reductionism in Bowel Cancer Screening.
Conference Proceedings
A Framework and Assessment Models for Medical Education in the Era of Generative AI and ChatGPT
Inverse Data Law: Market Imperatives, Data, and Quality in AI Supported Care.
AI Diagnostic Technologies and the Gap in Colorectal Cancer Screening Participation.
Korolev Crater Special Administrative Region.
Intelligent Medical Case Based e-Learning System.
Open Domain Question and Answering Framework using Wikipedia.
Professional Experience
I combine academic rigor with industry experience, building products that translate cutting-edge AI into practical healthcare solutions.
Startups
Developing AI Family History Pedigree Builder leveraging AI Call Agents and LLMs. Built landing page and onboarding tools.
Ranvier AI
Built AI-enhanced DICOM viewer for Chest XR pathologies. Acquired by GCUH Health System.
Consulting
Contributed to the development of a frog audio classifier leveraging 1 million frog audio recordings, in collaboration with Vivanti consultants and the Australian Museum.
Teaching
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Instructor for graduate course HST.953 Clinical Data Learning, Visualization, and Deployments.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre | Harvard Medical School
Developed and delivered a workshop on Deep Learning, Neural Networks, and LLMs for medical residents.
University of South Australia
Lectured Predictive Analytics (ML Algorithms) and Statistics Using R.
University of Tasmania
Delivered tutorials for Artificial Intelligence (Neural Networks) and Web Development.
Beyond Study
Organized large-scale holiday workshops, managing a team of 8 tutors teaching disadvantaged high school students in STEM.
Leadership & Service
Committed to fostering the next generation of AI leaders and shaping global policy for responsible AI development.
AI Governance & Safety
MIT Health AI Systems Thinking for Equity Policy Workshop
Facilitated workshop with MIT undergraduates on AI accountability, transparency, & fairness.
Harvard University AI Safety Student Team
Selected for weekly technical reading group on AI safety research (interpretability, RLHF, etc.).
Global Leadership
Australian Government Dept. of Foreign Affairs & Trade
Selected as 1 of 42 Alumni Ambassadors nationally to coordinate events & liaise with industry partners.
MIKTA Future Leaders Camp
Selected as 1 of 40 Future Leaders across 5 nations. Led team to win 1st prize for climate change policy.
United Nations Humanitarian Affairs Asia
Managed 907 delegates from 78 countries at the University Scholars Leadership Symposium.
Education
A multidisciplinary foundation spanning computer science, medicine, philosophy, and research.
Harvard University
Master of Science in Biomedical Informatics
- Accelerated Program
- GPA 3.98 / 4.0
- Dean's Scholarship Recipient
University of Tasmania
Doctor of Philosophy (AI in Medicine)
- Research on Equitable AI for Colorectal Cancer Screening
Doctor of Medicine / Bachelor of Medical Science
Bachelor of Information & Communication Technology (First Class Honours)
- GPA 7.0 / 7.0
- 1st Prize award for best ICT Honours thesis.
Bachelor of Philosophy
- GPA 7.0 / 7.0
Bachelor of Science (Computer Science & Applied Mathematics)
- GPA 6.92 / 7.0
Awards & Prizes
Recognition for academic excellence, research impact, and global leadership.
Academic Scholarships
Fulbright Future Scholarship (Funded by the Kinghorn Foundation)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Harvard Medical School Dean's Scholarship
Top 35 students across all Harvard Medical School Masters Degrees
Tasmanian School of Medicine RTP PhD Scholarship
Full tuition/stipend to research AI for bowel cancer screening
High Achievers Full Tuition Scholarship for Bachelor of Philosophy
University of Tasmania
Tasmania Honours Scholarship for BICT(Hons)
$7500 AUD, University of Tasmania, awarded to top ICT research student
New Colombo Plan Scholarship
$67000 AUD Aus Govt. Award to top 100 students nationwide to study in the Asia-Pacific
Research Grants & Awards
ONU Centennial Trust Fellow
$5000 AUD awarded to exceptional alumni of Newington College to pursue graduate research
Cambridge University (UK) Summer Research Scholar
Selected to participate in the AIM Overseas Summer Science program
Yonsei University, College of Medicine Visiting Clerkship Award
100% fee waiver for top ranked visiting research scholar
Advanced AI Conference Grant
$2000 AUD, Smart Systems & Services Research Group, University of Tasmania
Summer Research Scholarship, College of Sciences & Engineering
$3000 AUD, University of Tasmania
Academic Honors
Executive Dean's Honour Roll for Bachelor of Philosophy
University of Tasmania
Dean's Honour Roll for Bachelor of ICT (Honours)
University of Tasmania
1st Prize Thesis Award
University of Tasmania, recognising best ICT Honours thesis
New Colombo Plan Fellow to South Korea
Australian Government Honor recognising the top scholar in each location
Dean's Honour Roll for Bachelor of Science
University of Tasmania
Leadership & Innovation Awards
Vice Chancellor's Leadership Award, Cited for Global Leadership
University of Tasmania
Mars Society Prize
5th Place (Globally) - Proposal for sustainable 1 million man Mars colony, judged by NASA, SpaceX
Chase Wonder Creative Prize
1st Place - Design contest for a charitable platform
MIKTA Future Leader Award
1st Place - Best policy proposal tackling climate change @ MIKTA 40 Future Leaders Camp
Innovate Tasmania Hackathon
2nd Place - Developed an online study tool for ICT students
Skills
A full stack engineer proficient in a number of tech stacks.
Technical
Languages
Saleem Ameen
Research Experience
My research bridges the gap between clinical medicine and artificial intelligence, with a focus on fairness, safety, and real-world implementation.
Projects
TRIPOD+LLM Reporting Guidelines
Developed the TRIPOD+LLM guidelines on the publishing of LLM studies in healthcare - accepted in Nature Medicine.
Pediatric Growth Monitoring
Developed LLM-based pipeline (GPT-4) to analyze pediatric growth charts for abnormalities. Explored varying prompt-engineering strategies.
Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnosis
Implemented 3D CNNs and autoencoders to diagnose ASD from fMRI images.
Precision Screening for Colorectal Cancer
Conducted qualitative research with 1st generation migrants and developing a data-driven AI-based Precision Medicine framework to mitigate screening barriers.
Digital Pathology & General AI
Proposed and implemented convolutional autoencoders to learn latent representations of cells in unlabelled pathology data.
Deep Learning for Histological Analysis
Completed a technical review of deep learning approaches for histological analysis of lung tissue and produced a report on practical challenges.
Medical e-Learning System
Built an intelligent case-based medical e-learning web platform and a Wikipedia-based Q&A system using Named-Entity Recognition.
AI in Clinical Practice & Application of Semi-Supervised Learning in Radiology
Evaluated the Stanford CheXpert model on Australian data to explore the role of AI in the triaging of chest X-rays. Proposed an alternative semi-supervised learning approach to address model drift in the Australian context.
Immunology & Cancer
Conducted literature review on the role of the immune system in avoiding cancer and the potential for ML to identify new therapeutic pathways. Received feedback stating research was of exceptional quality.
Multi-Modal CAD for Breast Cancer
Developed a state-of-the-art multi-modal human-in-the-loop ML approach to automatically detect the presence of breast cancer in Fine Needle Aspirates.
AI for Robotic-Assisted Surgery
Technical lead developing an intraoperative AI-assisted surgical guidance system to augment visualization of neurovascular fibres during robotic-assisted rectal cancer surgery. Developed labelling pipeline for CNN training.
Journal Publications
The TRIPOD+LLM Statement: A Targeted Guideline For Reporting Large Language Models Use
Introducing the Team Card: Enhancing Governance for Medical AI Systems in the Age of Complexity
Improving Colorectal Cancer Screening - Consumer-Centred Technological Interventions to Enhance Engagement & Participation Amongst Diverse Cohorts.
AI & Clinical Decision Making: The Limitations & Risks of Computational Reductionism in Bowel Cancer Screening.
Conference Proceedings
A Framework and Assessment Models for Medical Education in the Era of Generative AI and ChatGPT
Inverse Data Law: Market Imperatives, Data, and Quality in AI Supported Care.
AI Diagnostic Technologies and the Gap in Colorectal Cancer Screening Participation.
Korolev Crater Special Administrative Region.
Intelligent Medical Case Based e-Learning System.
Open Domain Question and Answering Framework using Wikipedia.
Professional Experience
I combine academic rigor with industry experience, building products that translate cutting-edge AI into practical healthcare solutions.
Startups
Guide Genetics
Developing AI Family History Pedigree Builder leveraging AI Call Agents and LLMs. Built landing page and onboarding tools.
Ranvier AI
Built AI-enhanced DICOM viewer for Chest XR pathologies. Acquired by GCUH Health System.
Consulting
Vivanti
Contributed to the development of a frog audio classifier leveraging 1 million frog audio recordings, in collaboration with Vivanti consultants and the Australian Museum.
Cognizant Servian
Developed computer vision projects for Enterprise & Government clients. Built internal IP for data labelling.
Teaching
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Instructor for graduate course HST.953 Clinical Data Learning, Visualization, and Deployments.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre | Harvard Medical School
Developed and delivered a workshop on Deep Learning, Neural Networks, and LLMs for medical residents.
University of South Australia
Lectured Predictive Analytics (ML Algorithms) and Statistics Using R.
University of Tasmania
Delivered tutorials for Artificial Intelligence (Neural Networks) and Web Development.
Beyond Study
Organized large-scale holiday workshops, managing a team of 8 tutors teaching disadvantaged high school students in STEM.
Leadership & Service
Committed to fostering the next generation of AI leaders and shaping global policy for responsible AI development.
AI Governance & Safety
MIT Health AI Systems Thinking for Equity Policy Workshop
Facilitated workshop with MIT undergraduates on AI accountability, transparency, & fairness.
Harvard University AI Safety Student Team
Selected for weekly technical reading group on AI safety research (interpretability, RLHF, etc.).
Global Leadership
Australian Government Dept. of Foreign Affairs & Trade
Selected as 1 of 42 Alumni Ambassadors nationally to coordinate events & liaise with industry partners.
MIKTA Future Leaders Camp
Selected as 1 of 40 Future Leaders across 5 nations. Led team to win 1st prize for climate change policy.
United Nations Humanitarian Affairs Asia
Managed 907 delegates from 78 countries at the University Scholars Leadership Symposium.
Education
A multidisciplinary foundation spanning computer science, medicine, philosophy, and research.
Harvard University
Master of Science in Biomedical Informatics
- Accelerated Program
- GPA 3.98 / 4.0
- Dean's Scholarship Recipient
University of Tasmania
Doctor of Philosophy (AI in Medicine)
- Research on Equitable AI for Colorectal Cancer Screening
Doctor of Medicine / Bachelor of Medical Science
Bachelor of Information & Communication Technology (First Class Honours)
- GPA 7.0 / 7.0
- 1st Prize award for best ICT Honours thesis.
Bachelor of Philosophy
- GPA 7.0 / 7.0
Bachelor of Science (Computer Science & Applied Mathematics)
- GPA 6.92 / 7.0
Awards & Prizes
Recognition for academic excellence, research impact, and global leadership.
Academic Scholarships
Fulbright Future Scholarship (Funded by the Kinghorn Foundation)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Harvard Medical School Dean's Scholarship
Top 35 students across all Harvard Medical School Masters Degrees
Tasmanian School of Medicine RTP PhD Scholarship
Full tuition/stipend to research AI for bowel cancer screening
High Achievers Full Tuition Scholarship for Bachelor of Philosophy
University of Tasmania
Tasmania Honours Scholarship for BICT(Hons)
$7500 AUD, University of Tasmania, awarded to top ICT research student
New Colombo Plan Scholarship
$67000 AUD Aus Govt. Award to top 100 students nationwide to study in the Asia-Pacific
Research Grants & Awards
ONU Centennial Trust Fellow
$5000 AUD awarded to exceptional alumni of Newington College to pursue graduate research
Cambridge University (UK) Summer Research Scholar
Selected to participate in the AIM Overseas Summer Science program
Yonsei University, College of Medicine Visiting Clerkship Award
100% fee waiver for top ranked visiting research scholar
Advanced AI Conference Grant
$2000 AUD, Smart Systems & Services Research Group, University of Tasmania
Summer Research Scholarship, College of Sciences & Engineering
$3000 AUD, University of Tasmania
Academic Honors
Executive Dean's Honour Roll for Bachelor of Philosophy
University of Tasmania
Dean's Honour Roll for Bachelor of ICT (Honours)
University of Tasmania
1st Prize Thesis Award
University of Tasmania, recognising best ICT Honours thesis
New Colombo Plan Fellow to South Korea
Australian Government Honor recognising the top scholar in each location
Dean's Honour Roll for Bachelor of Science
University of Tasmania
Leadership & Innovation Awards
Vice Chancellor's Leadership Award, Cited for Global Leadership
University of Tasmania
Mars Society Prize
5th Place (Globally) - Proposal for sustainable 1 million man Mars colony, judged by NASA, SpaceX
Chase Wonder Creative Prize
1st Place - Design contest for a charitable platform
MIKTA Future Leader Award
1st Place - Best policy proposal tackling climate change @ MIKTA 40 Future Leaders Camp
Innovate Tasmania Hackathon
2nd Place - Developed an online study tool for ICT students
Skills
A full stack engineer proficient in a number of tech stacks.