He has received grant funding from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Abramson Cancer Center, and the Translational Biomedical Imaging Center of the Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics of UPenn.
Research Experience
He is the Joshua Edwards Associate Professor at IU School of Medicine Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and is the Inaugural Director of the Division of Computational Pathology. He also holds secondary appointments in the Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, the Department of Biostatistics and Health Data Science, the Department of Neurological Surgery, and the Department of Computer Science in the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering. Additionally, he serves as the Director of the Research Center for Federated Learning in Medicine.
Education
Before joining IU, Dr. Bakas was with the Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine and the Department of Radiology at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), and a secondary affiliation with the Dept. of Bioengineering at the UPenn.
Background
His research interests focus on the development, application, and benchmarking of advanced computational algorithms in medical imaging, with the intention of improving disease assessment, quantification, and diagnosis in the current clinical practice. He has been leading projects on image quantification, radiogenomics, and federated learning, towards enabling treatment selection models customized on an individual patient basis, while addressing health disparities and inequities.