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Nasir Rajpoot

Also known as N M Rajpoot, Nasir M. Rajpoot

Nasir Rajpoot is a computational pathology researcher at the University of Warwick whose group develops AI and machine-learning algorithms that study cancer from tissue slides. Originally from Multan, he held fellowships at PIEAS in Pakistan and at Yale, completed a computer science PhD at Warwick in 2001, and began there as a Lecturer. He founded the Tissue Image Analytics lab in 2012, co-authored the HoVer-Net nucleus segmentation network in 2018, co-directed the £15m PathLAKE centre of excellence on AI in pathology from 2019 to 2024, and became GSK Chair of Computational Pathology in March 2023. In February 2024, he began leading Histofy, a spinout from his Warwick group. He is Professor of Computational Pathology and Director of the Tissue Image Analytics Centre at Warwick, and he is co-founder and CEO and CSO of Histofy.

Now at
University of Warwick and Histofy
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Timeline

  1. 1994–2001

    Fellowships and a Warwick PhD

    From Multan, he is a systems engineering fellow at PIEAS in Pakistan from 1994 to 1996 and a postgraduate research fellow in the Applied Math program at Yale, partly based at the School of Medicine, from 1998 to 2000. He completes a PhD in Computer Science at Warwick in 2001 and starts his academic career there as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor).

  2. 2012–2016

    Founding the TIA lab

    In 2012, he becomes founding Director of the Tissue Image Analytics (TIA) lab at Warwick, which later becomes the TIA Centre. In 2016, he also takes an Honorary Scientist position in the Department of Pathology at University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust.

  3. 2018

    The HoVer-Net nucleus network

    In 2018, he co-authors HoVer-Net with Simon Graham and colleagues, a convolutional neural network that segments and classifies nuclei in histology images at the same time. The work also introduces a dataset of colorectal adenocarcinoma image tiles with 24,319 annotated nuclei.

  4. 2019–2024

    Co-directing the PathLAKE centre

    From 2019 to 2024, he is co-Director of PathLAKE, a £15m national Centre of Excellence on AI in pathology in the UK. In 2019, he also serves as President of the European Congress of Digital Pathology.

  5. 2022

    The TIAToolbox library

    In 2022, he is a co-author of TIAToolbox, a Python toolbox from the Tissue Image Analytics Centre that makes computational pathology accessible to computational, biomedical and clinical researchers.

  6. March 2023

    GSK Chair of Computational Pathology

    In March 2023, Warwick announces him as the new GSK Chair of Computational Pathology, a post that deepens the existing partnership between GSK and Warwick.

  7. February 2024

    Leading the Histofy team

    In February 2024, he starts leading the team at Histofy, a spinout from the TIA Centre aimed at accelerated precision diagnostics in clinical and pharmaceutical workflows.

  8. As of October 2026

    Warwick professor and Histofy CEO

    He is Professor of Computational Pathology and founding Director of the Tissue Image Analytics Centre at Warwick, and co-founder and CEO and CSO of Histofy. Histofy has developed COBI, an AI algorithm that supports histopathologists in the screening and triage of large bowel biopsies.

Career

  1. Since 2024HistofyCo-founder, CEO and CSO
  2. Since 2001University of WarwickLecturer, Founding Director
  3. 2019–2024PathLAKE Centre of ExcellenceCo-Director
  4. From 2016University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS TrustHonorary Scientist
  5. 1998–2000Yale UniversityPostgraduate Research Fellow
  6. 1994–1996Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied SciencesSystems Engineering Fellow

Education

  1. 2001University of WarwickPhD

From the biography.

  1. 11% of AI doctorate holders from 2010 to 2016 founded or led a company or lab by 10 years after graduationIncludes Nasir Rajpoot. We estimate how often AI doctorate holders founded or led a company or lab by 10 years after graduation, how waiting times compare between founders and top jobs, and which universities trained the most.
  2. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other universityIncludes University of Warwick. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other university. We compare doctorate and 5+ year employment links, career timing and current workplaces for 187 major-prize and 1,111 best-paper winners.
  3. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionIncludes University of Warwick. We estimate where the people shaping AI studied and where their careers led. Massachusetts Institute of Technology leads with 467 former students, including 291 recorded doctorates.
  4. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974Includes University of Warwick. We estimate where the people shaping AI worked when their most-cited papers appeared: the company share was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974, and Google led all organizations in 2020–2024.

Colleagues

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Sources and credits

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  1. Nasir Rajpoot | Croucher Foundation projects.croucher.org.hk. Checked 21 October 2026.
  2. A FICS Workshop on Mathematical and Statistical Methods in Data Science iba-suk.edu.pk. Checked 21 October 2026.
  3. HoVer-Net: Simultaneous Segmentation and Classification of Nuclei in Multi-Tissue Histology Images arxiv.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  4. Convenzis - Speakers - Profile convenzis.co.uk. Checked 21 October 2026.
  5. TIAToolbox as an end-to-end library for advanced tissue image analytics pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Checked 21 October 2026.
  6. Warwick academic partners with GSK for new chair role in computational pathology pathologyinpractice.com. Checked 21 October 2026.
  7. AI powered screening and triaging of large bowel endoscopic biopsies openaccessgovernment.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  8. Prof. Nasir Rajpoot asdp2026.org. Checked 21 October 2026.