Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood
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Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) MadrasMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood | |
|---|---|
| Alma mater | Osmania University
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) MadrasMassachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Scientific career | |
| Thesis | (1993) |
| Doctoral advisor | Eric Grimson |
Tanveer Fathima Syeda-Mahmood is an Indian-American computer scientist whose research topics include image retrieval, multimedia databases, and medical image analysis. She is a chief scientist for the IBM Research Almaden Laboratory in San Jose, California, where she has led groups developing cognitive assistants for radiologists and cardiologists, assistive technology for people with memory impairments, and biologically inspired storage media.[1]
Syeda-Mahmood was home-schooled, and then skipped two grades after entering primary school in India. She earned a bachelor's degree in electronics and communication from Osmania University, and a master's degree in computer science from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras.[2] She went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for doctoral study, funded by an IBM graduate fellowship; her early projects there included a 1988 prototype robotic vacuum cleaner.[2] After completing her Ph.D. at MIT in 1993, under the supervision of Eric Grimson,[3] she worked for Xerox at their Webster Research Center, on content-based image retrieval, before moving to IBM in 1998.[4]
Some recent articles by Syeda-Mahmood include topics such as medical image analysis and comparison of reading chest X-rays by radiology residents and an AI.[5][6]
