Behdad Dashtbozorg is a senior scientist and principal investigator at the Netherlands Cancer Institute. After graduating in electrical engineering in 2010, he started his journey in the field of medical image analysis and artificial intelligence at the INEB—Instituto de Engenharia Biomédica, University of Porto in Portugal, receiving his Ph.D. in 2015. Subsequently, he joined Eindhoven University of Technology as a postdoctoral researcher, focusing on the development and implementation of advanced machine/deep learning algorithms for computer-aided diagnostics. In 2018, he furthered his career at the Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI) as a senior scientific researcher in the image-guided surgery group, running numerous projects in smart surgical tool development, tissue sensing, and applying machine learning and computer vision to enhance image-guided surgery applications and early diagnostics. As the principal investigator of several studies funded by the Dutch Cancer Society (KWF) and other agencies, his research focuses on leveraging AI for medical data/image analysis and multimodality imaging to advance surgery and diagnostics.