Mustafa Elattar
2022 IVLP Impact Award Project: Nile University Artificial Intelligence HackathonEgypt
Mustafa A. Elattar is currently the artificial intelligence program director at Nile University. In August 2018, he founded Intixel Co. S.A.E., which focuses on serving medical imaging firms with its turnkey artificial intelligence solutions. He has published more than 45 journal articles. His research interests include medical imaging, surgeries and interventions planning, biostatistics, image analysis, computer vision, machine learning, and knowledge aggregation for automatic machine learning.
Mustafa received his bachelor’s degree in systems and biomedical engineering from Cairo University in 2008 and a master’s degree in communication and information technology in 2010, after conducting image analysis research for cardiac imaging at Nile University. He pursued a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering and physics, school of medicine from the Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in 2016, after developing a preoperative planning framework for transcatheter aortic valve implantation. In 2015, he joined the Netherlands Cancer Institute as a Postdoctoral Fellow, where he conducted research for image-guided radiotherapy. In August 2017, he joined Nile University as an assistant professor and Medical Imaging and Image Processing Research Group as a leader focusing on incorporating deep neural networks in 2-D and 3-D medical image analysis contexts.
IVLP Impact Award Project: Nile University Artificial Intelligence Hackathon
This project organized the first artificial intelligence (AI) hackathon in Egypt, hosted by Nile University. A hackathon is a marathon brainstorming session to produce projects to be supported by industrial partners. A total of 321 teams applied to participate in the event, and 40 were chosen to compete. Participating youth attempted to tackle real world challenges using AI solutions in partnership with professionals at Valeo, Intixel, VAIS, and other industrial partners and research collaborators.
"I learned about the different types of media, including print, television, radio, and the internet, and the different ways that each type of media can be used to communicate a message. Overall, I gained a better understanding of how powerful media can be and how it can shape our lives." - Hackathon participant
IVLP Exchange Experience
Mustafa participated in the IVLP Project Artificial Intelligence in 2021, organized by the U.S. Department of State and the Institute of International Education in partnership with GlobalPittsburgh, WorldChicago, WorldDenver, and Global Ties Sacramento.
U.S. Communities Visited Virtually
Sacramento, CA; Denver, CO; Washington, DC; Chicago, IL; Pittsburgh, PA