Descriptions

The SECURE-AI4H Symposium (Safe, Ethical, Certified, Uncertainty-aware, Robust, and Explainable AI for Health) brings together a multidisciplinary community focused on advancing trustworthy AI in healthcare and biomedicine. As AI technologies are increasingly deployed across diagnostics, hospital workflows, robotics, and personalized medicine, their safety, transparency, and real-world certifiability have become critical challenges. This symposium aims to foster cross-sector dialogue among AI researchers, clinicians, ethicists, engineers, cybersecurity experts, and policymakers to develop AI systems that are not only high-performing but also certifiable, interpretable, privacy-preserving, and resilient to adversarial threats.

🎓 Student Travel Grant Available!

USA-based students can apply for financial support to attend the 2025 Fall Symposium. Travel, lodging, and registration covered.

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Organizers

Apurva Narayan
Dr. Apurva Narayan
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science &
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Western University
Affiliate Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of British Columbia
Associate Faculty
School of Engineering
University of British Columbia
Adjunct Associate Professor
Department of Systems Design Engineering
University of Waterloo
Hong Qin
Dr. Hong Qin
Associate Professor
School of Data Science
Department of Computer Science
Old Dominion University
Elham Dolatabadi
Dr. Elham Dolatabadi
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Health
York University
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Lassonde School of Engineering
York University
Faculty Affiliate
Vector Institute
Principal Investigator
i4Health Research Lab
Rishi Ganesan
Dr. Rishi Ganesan
Paediatric Intensive Care Physician-Researcher
Specialization in Paediatric Neurocritical Care
Division of Paediatric Critical Care Medicine
Children’s Hospital - London Health Sciences Centre
Assistant Professor
Department of Paediatrics
Schulich School of Medicine
Western University
Associate Scientist
Lawson Health Research Institute
Yalda Mohsenzadeh
Dr. Yalda Mohsenzadeh
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Brain and Mind Institute
Western University
Faculty Member
Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Letu Qingge
Dr. Letu Qingge
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
North Carolina A&T State University
Laleh Seyyed Kalantari
Dr. Laleh Seyyed-Kalantari
Assistant Professor
Lassonde School of Engineering
York University
Faculty Affiliate
Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Ritambhara Singh
Dr. Ritambhara Singh
Associate Professor of Computer Science and Data Science
Brown University
Member
Center for Computational Molecular Biology
Amol Verma
Dr. Amol Verma
Internal Medicine Physician and Scientist
Unity Health Toronto
Temerty Professor of AI Research and Education in Medicine
University of Toronto
Provincial Clinical Lead for Quality Improvement
General Internal Medicine, Ontario Health
Vice-Chair
Researcher Council, Digital Research Alliance of Canada

Symposium Assistant

Sara Lahourpour
Sara Lahourpour