Dr. Tariq Daouda is the head of the Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Biomedical Informatics at the Faculty of Medical Sciences of Mohamed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P). His work specializes in applications at the intersection of artificial intelligence and biomedical sciences.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and computer science from the University of Lorraine, a master’s degree in machine learning from the University of Montreal, and a Ph.D. in bioinformatics from the University of Montreal. Dr. Daouda then moved to Boston to pursue his postdoctoral training, where he was affiliated with the Broad Institute, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital.
He then joined Mohammed VI Polytechnic University to become the head of AI for biomedical applications at the Faculty of Medicine. His research focuses on developing new artificial intelligence methods to improve our understanding of biology and accelerate the development of clinical applications. Over the years, he has worked on identifying cancer and infection markers on the surface of cells, integrating different types of single-cell sequencing to create accurate maps of cell biology.