Dr. Himar Fabelo
Fundación Canaria Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Canarias (FIISC), Research Unit at Hospital Universitario de Gran Canaria Dr. Negrin (HUGCDN), Institute for Applied Microelectronics (IUMA at University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

Talk Title: Artificial intelligence and multimodal imaging for brain tumour surgery: Challenges and pathways for clinical validation

Himar Fabelo received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in telecommunication technologies from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, in 2014, and 2019, respectively. Since then, he has conducted his research activity in the Integrated System Design Division with the Institute for Applied Microelectronics, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, in the field of electronic and bioengineering. In 2015, he started to work as a coordination assistant and researcher in the HELICoiD (618080) European project. In 2018, he performed a research stay in the Department of Bioengineering at The University of Texas at Dallas, collaborating with Prof. Baowei Fei in the field of medical hyperspectral imaging analysis using deep learning. In 2021, he worked as a project manager in the WARIFA (101017385) European project, and, in 2022, he started to work at the Fundación Canaria Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Canarias (FIISC) with a Juan De La Cierva Postdoctoral grant. Since 2024, he is working as principal Investigator at FIISC and assistant coordinator of the of the STRATUM (101137416) European project. His research interests include the use of artificial intelligence techniques applied to hyperspectral images to discriminate between healthy and tumour tissue in real-time during surgery and also for early cancer detection and screening.