Team

Ahmed S. Sultan, BDS, PhD

Assistant Professor Director, Advanced Program in OMP Co-Director of the Division of Artificial Intelligence Research

Jeffery Price, DDS, MS

Clinical Professor Director of Oral Radiology, and Chair Co-Director of the Division of Artificial Intelligence Research

PhD Students

Njood Hawari, BDS
Chief Resident, Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology
PhD Student, Oral and Experimental Pathology
Division of Artificial Intelligence Research

Rafael Casasola, DDS
PGY-2 Resident, Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology
PhD Student, Oral and Experimental Pathology
Division of Artificial Intelligence Research

Masters Students

Muhammad Qazi, BDS
Master’s Student, Oral and Experimental Pathology
PGY-3 Resident, Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology
Division of Artificial Intelligence Research

Postdocs

Hamid Hoorfar, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow in Medical Image Processing and Data Science
Division of Artificial Intelligence Research

Former Lab Members

Najwa Yousef, BDS, PhD
Successfully defended her PhD dissertation on April 6, 2026.

Dissertation Title
Artificial Intelligence-Driven Multi-omics for Risk Stratification of Oral Potentially Malignant Disorders

Shahd A. Alajaji, BDS, PhD
Successfully defended her PhD Dissertation on June 11, 2025

Dissertation Title
“Malignant Transformation of Oral Epithelial Dysplasia: Precision Diagnostics Utilizing a Deep Learning and Spatial Transcriptomics Predictive Modeling Approach.”

Research Faculty

Tao Ma, MD, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
Cell Culture and Translational Artificial Intelligence
Division of Artificial Intelligence Research

Cindy Zhou, DDS, PhD
Image Scanning Research Specialist
Division of Artificial Intelligence Research