Adam Shephard
Assistant Professor at University of Warwick
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Shephard is an Assistant Professor in Computational Pathology at the University of Warwick with eight years of experience developing AI-driven solutions for medical imaging, focused on early cancer detection, risk stratification, and biomarker discovery in head and neck cancer. Trained as a neuroscientist with a strong quantitative background in theoretical and mathematical physics, he bridges digital pathology and radiology and increasingly pursues multimodal learning for clinically interpretable decision-making. He leads translational, interdisciplinary projects within the Tissue Image Analytics Centre, contributes to open-source tools such as the TIA Toolbox, and regularly organizes seminars and outreach to accelerate adoption of reproducible methods. Notably, his work emphasizes clinically meaningful validation rather than purely technical metrics, aiming to move models from research prototypes toward real-world impact.
7 years of coding experience
MSci Natural Sciences, Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, 1st, MSci Natural Sciences, Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, 1st at University of NottinghamPh.D. Neuroscience, Ph.D. Neuroscience at Aston University
Github Skills (24)
image-analysis10
histopathology10
python10
toolbox10
machine-learning10
medical-image-analysis10
digital-pathology10
deep-learning9
convolutional-neural-networks7
medical-imaging6
medical6
segmentation5
scale4
computer-vision4
pytorch3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
adamshephard/TIAger
Apr 2022 - Aug 2022
Contributions:41 commits, 25 PRs, 26 pushes in 3 months
adamshephard/tiatoolbox
Nov 2021 - Jul 2022
Computational Pathology Toolbox developed by TIA Lab
Contributions:2 PRs, 101 pushes, 6 branches in 8 months
toolboxtiacomputational-pathologylabcomputational
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