Omar Choudhry
Postgraduate Representative @Leeds University Union
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WORK HISTORY
Postgraduate Representative @Leeds University Union
Leeds, GB
Represented postgraduate students across the School of Computing • Assisted students with issues regarding administration, High Performance Computing (HPC), and AI/ML support • Fostered collaboration and created opportunities to increase both theoretical and practical AI knowledge • Helped students improve employability by engaging in extracurricular activities and practising key soft skills
EDUCATION
University of Leeds
BSc (Hons), Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence
BURNHAM GRAMMAR SCHOOL
A-Levels, GCSEs
University of Leeds
MSc, Artificial Intelligence for Medical Diagnosis and Care
University of Leeds
PhD, AI-Driven Surgical Skill Training in Resource-Constrained Environments
ABOUT OMAR CHOUDHRY
Omar is currently undertaking an integrated PhD and MSc course at the University of Leeds, specialising in Artificial Intelligence for Medical Diagnosis and Care. He was awarded the highly competitive EPSRC Fully Funded Studentship Awards for Session 2023/24, which cover the full cost of university fees and maintenance, making him the youngest postgraduate researcher on the course to date. He previously completed a BSc in Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence (20••••23), graduating with First Class Honours. His undergraduate dissertation focused on Survival Analysis with Neural Networks for Chronic Heart Failure Patients. He achieved a Distinction in his MSc in Artificial Intelligence for Medical Diagnosis and Care (20••••25), where his dissertation looked at Surgical Tool Detection and Tracking in Laparoscopic Surgical Training Datasets in Low- and Middle- Income Countries. His doctoral research now centres on AI-driven surgical skill training in resource-constrained environments.Within his doctoral studies, Omar has achieved recognition at various academic events. He won the Thesis Sharing Competition at the University of Bradford for the best thesis summary and received the Best Cohort Spotlight Award at his first conference presentation at the Annual CDT Conference in Leeds. He also secured first place for the Best Pitch at the Annual CDT Retreat in 2024 and was awarded the Best Presentation prize at the Doctoral Consortium of the prestigious 29th Conference on Medical Image Understanding and Analysis. He also frequently partakes in interdisciplinary and clinical collaboration with multiple partnerships to date. This extends to professional memberships with MICCAI, BCS, IET, ALSGBI and BAPES. Beyond academia, Omar has held senior roles including Chief AI Scientist and Lead Full Stack Developer at an AI Edutech startup. His professional experience includes work with the United Nations International Computing Centre (UNICC), Discover Financial Services, and Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. He is also a Director of OC Solutions Ltd, a company providing bespoke information technology, software solutions, and consultancy services across multiple domains. In addition, Omar has extensive teaching, tutoring, and volunteering experience in schools and organisations internationally, including King Saud University in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia through the prestigious Mawhiba programme, which admits only the most exceptional students in the Middle East.
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