Ryan M. Rad

Assistant Teaching Professor

  • Machine learning
  • Computer vision
  • Generative models
  • Data science
  • PhD in Applied Sciences, Simon Fraser University — Canada
  • MS in Computer Science, University of Malaya — Malaysia
  • BE in Computer Engineering, University of Guilan — Iran

Ryan M. Rad is an assistant teaching professor at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University in Vancouver. He earned his bachelor’s in computer engineering from the University of Guilan, his master’s in computer science from the University of Malaya, and his PhD in applied sciences from Simon Fraser University. His areas of teaching include machine learning, data analytics, and visualization software engineering algorithms. Rad is currently research active in computational biology, machine learning, and personal health informatics.

To date, he has published more than 20 scientific papers with more than 500 citations, and an i10-index of 15. He served as a technical committee member or speaker for several top-tier computer science journals and conferences including IEEE TIP, IEEE TMI, ICCV, ICIP, VCIP, AAAI, and MICCAI. Having roots in entrepreneurship and business, he founded two companies over the last decade. Rad has led several data analytics and machine learning research projects delivering innovative, responsible, and cutting-edge AI, machine learning, and computer vision solutions to the enterprise, benefiting communities from healthcare to green technology. They are the fruit of more than 10 years' combined experience in academia and industry as a professor, researcher, engineer, and manager.

Prior to joining Northeastern University, he was an adjunct professor at University of British Columbia (UBC) and a professor at the MBA department of University Canada West (UCW). He also served as an instructor at Columbia College and Douglas College in the past. In industry, he worked as a researcher, engineer, team lead, and product manager for several startups and companies.