Amara Tariq

Post doc

Post-doctoral fellow

Ph.D computer science

  • She worked as Postdoc scholar in Deaprtment of Biomedical Informatics at Emory University.
  • She has a Ph.D. in Computer science from University of Central Florida. Her expertise is in Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, and Machine Learning. Her work has been focused on multi-modal data processing; especially visual and textual data. She has several research papers in prestigious venues (PAMI, IEEE TIP, CVPR) on automatic image caption generation as well as semantic analysis of free-flowing text. Before joining Emory, she was working as an Assistant Professor at Forman Christian College, Pakistan.
  • She is currently working on several projects focusing broadly on bridging the gap between imaging and clinical text data, and extracting patient-specific information for diagnosis and prediction.