Dr. Mark Hughes

Mark has over 12 years of experience in image and video search technologies. A former University Lecturer in machine learning and computer vision, he was an expert reviewer for the US National Institute of Standards in Technology (NIST) in the areas of image and video search. Formerly, Dr. Hughes was a Research Scientist at IBM Watson Research, leading the deep learning research team on IBM’s Cognitive Care platform. Dr. Hughes was also the Director of Machine Learning at United Healthcare. He holds a PhD in Computer Vision & Machine Learning and has published dozens of papers, publications and journal articles in computer vision, machine learning and more recently deep learning.