Dr. Mobarak Hoque

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Bio

Dr Mobarak Hoque is an Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in Multimodal Agentic AI for Healthcare, at the Division of Informatics, Imaging and Data Science, University of Manchester. He also currently appointed as an honorary senior research fellow positions at University College London. He holds a PhD in AI from the National University of Singapore and was a postdoctoral researcher at the Hawkes Institute at UCL, and the BioMedIA group at Imperial College London. Before his academic career, he gained extensive industry experience in real-world translation of machine learning and computer vision research as a Senior Software Engineer at Samsung R&D Institute.

His pioneering work on multimodal medical imaging AI has been widely recognised by leading international groups across academia and industry. His research focuses on developing safe, trustworthy, and adaptive multimodal large vision-language models and AI agents for medical imaging and surgical intelligence. He has published over 100 papers in top-tier peer-reviewed journals and conferences in medical imaging AI and multimodal LLM. He serves as Area Chair and Session Chair for MICCAI (2022–2025), IPCAI (2024–2026), and AAAI (2026-2027), and organising several international workshops, including MICCAI-UNSURE 2026, EMA4MICCAI 2026, MICCAI-DART (2022–2023), and IROS-C4SR+ 2025. He also serves on the editorial boards of the journals Pattern Recognition, Scientific Reports, and Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing.

Research Interests

Mulitmodal LLM Agent in Healthcare
Medical Imaging AI
Safe and Trusted AI
Foundation Model

News

[08/2026] Giving a lecture at the 2026 Summer School on Machine Learning for Healthcare and Biology main track.
[07/2026] Giving a talk at the BMVA Symposium on Advancing Medical Care with AI Agents main track.
[01/2026] Chairing a session on LLM at AAAI 2026 main track, Singapore AAAI 2026 main track.
[01/2026] Presenting our Surgical AI Copilot paper at AAAI 2026, Singapore AAAI 2026 main track.
[11/2025] Our Surgical AI Copilot paper accepted to AAAI 2026 AAAI 2026 main track.
[10/2025] Serving as the Senior Program Committee at AAAI 2026.
[10/2025] Congratulations to the Team for being the Runner-up ($2000) in the 2025 MICCAI EndoVis SurgVU VLM VQA Challenge.
[10/2025] Congratulations to the Team for Winning Best Methodology Report ($500) in the 2025 MICCAI EndoVis SurgVU Challenge.
[10/2025] Chairing oral session 13: Surgical Data Science at MICCAI 2025.
[10/2025] Presenting 4 papers this year, including 2 early acceptances with oral and my students earning recognitions including "Young Scientist Award", a "Paper Highlight Selection", and a "Best Paper Shortlist" at MICCAI 2025.
[08/2025] Giving an invited lecture at [Surgical Data Science Summer School 2025](https://www.edu4sds.org/)
[11/2024] Honored to have received the IEEE TMI Distinguished Reviewer Award for 2023-2024
[10/2024] Chairing oral session 12: Surgical Data Science at MICCAI 2024.
[10/2024] Congratulations to the Team for being the Runner-up in the 2024 MICCAI BraTS SSA Segmentation Challenge.
[10/2024] Presenting 4 main conference papers this year, including 2 early acceptances and 1 invited oral presentation at MICCAI 2024.
[10/2023] Chairing oral session 8 at MICCAI 2023.
[10/2023] Presenting 7 papers at MICCAI 2023 where 5 in main conference (1 orals, 4 posters) and 2 workshop.
[06/2023] 5 papers on image-guided diagnosis and intervention have been accepted at MICCAI 2023, including an early acceptance.
[06/2023] A paper on one-to-many sysnthesis got acceptance at at IROS 2023.
[06/2023] Serving as a Area Chair at MICCAI2023.
[05/2023] Presenting two papers at ICRA2023.
[05/2023] Giving a seminar talk at OxfordXML.
[03/2023] Giving a talk at Next-Gen Digital Pathology Conference.
[02/2023] A paper got acceptance at IJCARS (International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery).
[01/2023] Two papers got acceptance at ICRA2023.
[12/2022] Chairing AI in Medical Imaging Winter School - 2022 belong to RISE-MICCAI.
[12/2022] A paper got acceptance at IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (IEEE T-ASE).
[09/2022] A paper got acceptance at ECCV2022 Medical Computer Vision Workshop.
[09/2022] Presenting 4 papers at MICCAI 2022.
[09/2022] Meta-reviewing and Charing MICCAI DART 2002 Workshop and MICCAI DART 2002 Proceedings
[08/2022] Started new role as senior research fellow at WEISS , University College London, UK.
[07/2022] A paper got acceptance at ACM Multimedia 2022 Medical Computer Vision Workshop.
[06/2022] 4 papers got acceptance at MICCAI 2022.
[01/2022] A paper on 'Global-Reasoned Multi-Task Learning' is accepted in both RA-L and IEEE ICRA & RA-L 2022.
[07/2021] Presenting our paper Class-Distribution-Aware LS TS in ICML UDL 2021 workshop.
[06/2021] A paper on Class-Incremental Domain Adaptation for Surgical Report Generation has been accepted in MICCAI 2021 </a>.
[03/2021] A paper on Glioblastoma Multiforme Prognosis has accepted in Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics .
[02/2021] A paper on Model Calibration for Surgical Report Generation has accepted in ICRA 2021 .
[02/2021] A paper on Capturing Uncertainty in Medical Image Segmentation has accepted in IPMI 2021 .
[10/2020] Presenting my paper at MICCAI 2020 .
[06/2020] Paper on Graph Structure Representation in Robotic Surgery is accepted in MICCAI 2020.
[06/2020] Presenting my paper at ICRA2020 .
[05/2020] Paper on "Spatio-temporal MTL model of predicting saliency while tracking surgical instrument" is accepted in the journal of Medical Image Analysis .
[02/2020] Started my postdoc journey in BioMedIA at Imperial College London, UK.
[01/2020] Paper on Attention Pruned Multitask Learning Model is accepted in ICRA 2020.
[10/2019] Oral presentation of our paper at MICCAI 2019.
[06/2019] Paper on MTL model of saliency and segmentation is accepted in MICCAI 2019.
[06/2019] Paper on Surgical Instrument Segmentation is accepted in IEEE RA-L.

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Awards and honours

2025: Runner-up ($2000) in the 2025 MICCAI EndoVis SurgVU VLM VQA Challenge
2025: Best Methodology Report ($500) in the 2025 MICCAI EndoVis SurgVU Challenge.
2025: Best Paper shortlist at the MICCAI 2025
2024: Excellence in Interventional and Surgical Science Award. UCL, UK.
2024: IEEE TMI Distinguished Reviewer Award, IEEE.
2024: Runner-up in the 2024 MICCAI BraTs SSA Segmentation Challenge.
2024: MedICSS 2024 Best Project Award. UCL, London, UK.
2023: RAS Travel Grant. ICRA 2023.
2022: Turing Postdoc Enrichment Award. Alan Turing Institute, UK.
2018: AUAPAF Stipend. Asian Universities Alliance Postgraduate Academic Forum, Asia.
2015: ISEP PhD Scholarship. ISEP, National University of Singapore, Singapore.

Contact

Email: mobarak.hoque at manchester.ac.uk
Address: Stopford Building, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PT