Rate My Professor Khan Iftekharuddin

Khan Iftekharuddin is a Professor and University Eminent Scholar holding the Batten Endowed Chair in Machine Learning in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Old Dominion University. He also directs the Vision Lab and serves as the Inaugural Director of the Virginia Beach Data Science Institute. Iftekharuddin earned his B.S. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Bangladesh Institute of Technology in 1989, M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Dayton in 1991, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Dayton in 1995. Before joining Old Dominion University in 2011, he was a Professor at the University of Memphis from 2000 to 2011, Assistant Professor at North Dakota State University from 1998 to 2000, Principal Research Engineer at Timken Research from 1997 to 1998, and Senior Systems Engineer at BDM Federal from 1994 to 1997. At ODU, he has held leadership positions including Interim Dean of the Batten College of Engineering and Technology from 2021 to 2022, Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies from 2017 to 2021 and 2022 to 2023, and Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 2013 to 2017.

Dr. Iftekharuddin's research specializes in computational modeling, artificial intelligence and machine learning, medical imaging and genomics analysis for precision medicine, human-machine interaction, cyber-physical systems, and cybersecurity. As principal investigator or co-investigator, he has secured over $24 million in funding from agencies including NSF, NIH, NASA, ARO, and AFRL, notably a $2.3 million NIH grant in 2025 for AI-driven brain tumor recurrence detection. His Vision Lab has ranked among the top teams in global MICCAI/NCI brain tumor segmentation challenges since 2014, achieving first place in the 2017 BraTS challenge. A highly cited researcher in the top 2% globally per Stanford University metrics, he has co-authored the book Digital Image Processing in SPIE’s Field Guide series, over 2,500 refereed journal papers and conference proceedings, 11 book chapters, and holds four U.S. patents. His accolades include the 2023 SCHEV Outstanding Faculty Award, election as Fellow of Optica in 2025, AIMBE in 2024, and SPIE in 2004, ODU Eminent Scholar in 2024, ODU Researcher of the Year in 2014, and University of Memphis Herff Outstanding Faculty Research Award in 2011. He has served as Senior Editor for Optical Engineering, Associate Editor for multiple IEEE Transactions, and organized symposia and workshops on biologically inspired computational vision.