Dr. Naimul Khan

Where Naimul Khan is today is a product of chance, beginning during his master’s studies. It was then that he attended a professor’s dinner party and happened to overhear a conversation about a research chair who was running a large-scale multimedia lab at Ryerson. Khan hadn’t considered graduate studies at Ryerson, but that research chair would become his PhD supervisor. “He invited me to visit his virtual reality lab, which he uses to wow his PhD students,” says Khan, laughing. “I was sold right away.”

During Khan’s first year at Ryerson, yet another chance encounter charted the path of his research. A five-minute conversation about manual image processing techniques used in cranial drilling sparked something in the PhD candidate. “I was still scratching my head about what topic to do. That’s where I got the idea that we can actually automate this process using machine learning and artificial intelligence.”

Now co-director of the very lab that brought him to Ryerson, Khan’s research in the areas of augmented reality, virtual reality and machine learning speaks to his interest in practical implementation. “I can not only develop the algorithms but also demonstrate them. Augmented reality and virtual reality work as the medium to show what algorithms can do.”

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