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Amin Emad is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at McGill University. His research focuses on Intelligent Systems, with particular emphasis on Computational Biology and Artificial Intelligence. Emad's work explores the intersection of these fields to develop innovative solutions. He is based at McConnell Engineering Building, Room 755, and can be contacted via email at amin.emad@mcgill.ca. His research areas include Bioelectrical engineering, Industry, and Computational Electromagnetics, among others.
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Amin Emad is an Associate Professor at McGill University and affiliated with Mila (Quebec AI Institute). His research focuses on integrating bioinformatics, network biology, and machine learning to advance cancer precision medicine and systems biology. Emad's work explores the development of interpretable models for drug response prediction, gene regulatory network analysis, and the application of deep learning frameworks for biomedical data. His research also addresses challenges in omics data analysis, including the use of causal inference and generative adversarial networks for simulating single-cell RNA-seq data. Emad's contributions span from computational methods for clinical prediction to understanding the molecular mechanisms of diseases such as cancer and COVID-19.