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Hamid Reza Tizhoosh is an Iranian-born Canadian Professor and Researcher.

He is a Professor of Biomedical Informatics at the Mayo Clinic's Department of Artificial Intelligence and Informatics in Rochester, Minnesota. He is also the founder and director of the Kimia Lab (Laboratory for Knowledge Inference in Medical Image Analysis) at the University of Waterloo.

Education
He received his master's degree in Electrical Engineering, with a major in Technical Computer Science, from the University of Aachen in 1996 and received his Doctorate in Medical Image Analysis from the University of Magdeburg in 2000.

Career
He first began his career in radiography in 1996, as a PhD student in Germany, He participated in a European initiative, as it was a partnership between many European institutions, including Lyon, Manchester, Liverpool, and Magdeburg, with the goal of improving radiation treatment.

In 2021, Tizhoosh Joined Mayo Clinic as Professor of Biomedical Informaticsand researching on applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine.

Research
Before joining the University of Waterloo, he was a research associate at the University of Toronto's Knowledge and Intelligence Systems Laboratory, where he focused on dynamic bandwidth allocation utilizing AI approaches such as reinforcement learning.

In 2001, Tizhoosh Joined University of Waterloo and in 2013 he founded Kimia Lab, researching on Using AI for medical image search. In 2021, he and his fellow researchers developed a new technology providing clinicians with a simple tool for diagnosing, treating, and researching disease by searching enormous medical image archives. The image retrieval technology, which is called Yottixel, later it was adapted by Joint Pathology Center.