Dr. Manar Samad
About
Dr. Samad received his Ph.D. degree from the Computer Vision Lab at Old Dominion University. He received the 2016 Outstanding Ph.D. Researcher award in the ECE department at Old Dominion University. Dr. Samad received his master's degree from the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, with a concentration in human-computer interaction (HCI). He worked as a post-doctoral research fellow at Geisinger Medical Center in health informatics and clinical decision optimization using electronic health records and machine learning. Dr. Samad is a multidisciplinary computer scientist with experience in data science, HCI, computer vision, and natural language processing. His current research interests include algorithms and optimization of unsupervised or self-supervised learning, computer vision, natural language processing, and explainable AI. His research has been funded by NSF, NIH, DoD, USDA, and Amazon.
Research Performance Summary
First Recorded Paper
Effect of force feedback from each DOF on the motion accuracy of a surgical tool in performing a robot-assisted tracing task
Year: 2010
Citations: 7
Venue: 2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and
Latest Recorded Paper
Predicting Early and Complete Drug Release from Long-Acting Injectables Using Explainable Machine Learning
Year: 2026
Citations: 0
Venue: arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.02265
Last 10 Years Publication Activity
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