Nefise Uysal

PhD Candidate

Nefise Uysal received her Master's degree in Biomedical Engineering program at Istanbul Technical University after finishing her Bachelor's degree in Biomedical Engineering at Erciyes University. She focused on breast tumor segmentation using a deep learning approach in ultrasound images for her master thesis. In the same period, she worked as a scholarship student in a biotech startup, developing an embryo grading system that uses AI methods for in vitro fertilization treatment. In January 2023, she joined the Computational Pathology Group as a PhD student to work on developing deep learning-based predictive biomarkers of biochemical recurrence from histopathological images of prostate cancer under the supervision of Geert Litjens and Jeroen van der Laak.