Samuel Fanijo

Samuel Fanijo is a Ph.D. Student, whose research focus is on using AI for Social Good -- particularly in the study of multiomics data and the application of deep learning systems to study the mechanisms of gene regulation -- to develop insights and methods for applications in Healthcare and Computational Biology. He is currently co-supervised by Dr. Julie Dickerson (of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering) and Dr. Ali Jannesari (of the Department of Computer Science). Samuel is an Alumnus of the Computer Science Research Scholarship at Google and has been recognized for his leadership through the Graduate College Emerging Leader Academy (GC-ELA) for 2023/24 at Iowa State University. His co-authored work on Better Augmentations in Contrastive Learning for Medical Image Segmentation was also awarded best paper in the BlackInAI Workshop co-located with NeurIPS 2022.