Ilker Hacihaliloglu

Dr. Ilker Hacihaliloglu is an assistant professor in the Department of Radiology at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He obtained his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Istanbul Technical University and his PhD from UBC. Following his PhD, he joined the Center for Hip Health and Mobility and Vancouver General Hospital as a postdoctoral fellow. He was a faculty member at Rutgers University in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Radiology from 2014 to 2021. In 2010, he was awarded the prestigious Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems (MITACS) - NCE Strategic Postdoctoral Scholarship. He is also the recipient of the 2017 North American Spine Society Young Investigator Award. In addition to striving for excellence in research, he also aspires to be an excellent instructor. 

Dr. Hacihaliloglu’s research is focused on developing innovative machine learning methods for processing various medical image data with a clinical focus in neurosurgery, liver disease, orthopedic surgery, lung disease and interventional radiology. A core mission of his research is to drive innovation in artificial intelligence towards industrial and clinical services and products. With a long-standing track record of working collaboratively with clinicians, his research aims to diminish the gap between exploratory engineering research and clinical research and bring technologies from bench to bedside. He is specifically interested in decentralizing health care by applying point-of-care ultrasound for out-of-hospital risk assessment to enable a more personal, accessible and connected health care.

Learn more about Dr. Hacihaliloglu’s research here.