
Tyler Ward
Graduate Research Assistant
About
I am currently a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Kentucky, and a Graduate Research Assistant in the Computational Health, Imaging, and Learning Laboratory (CHILL), under the supervision of Dr. Abdullah-Al-Zubaer Imran.
My current research focus is on self-supervised learning, semi-supervised learning, and medical image segmentation. I also have extensive research experience in the area of general computer vision and machine learning applications in industry, with an emphasis on quality, reliability, and maintenance.
I received a B.S. degree in Computer Science from Morehead State University in May 2021, and an M.S. in Engineering & Technology Management from the same institution in May 2023.
News/Updates
May 2025: Pleased to announce that I have been invited to attend the CIFAR Deep Learning + Reinforcement Learning (DLRL) Summer School at Amii (Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute) this summer!
Apr 2025: Our short paper Automated Intraoperative Lumpectomy Margin Detection using SAM-Incorporated Forward-Forward Contrastive Learning has been accepted at Medical Imaging with Deep Learning (MIDL) 2025!
Mar 2025: Our paper Improving Brain Disorder Diagnosis with Advanced Brain Function Representation and Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks has been accepted at Medical Imaging with Deep Learning (MIDL) 2025!
Jan 2025: Our paper Annotation-Efficient Task Guidance for Medical Segment Anything has been accepted at the 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI)!