Faculty Member
Divya Sharma PhD
- Email Address(es)
- div.sharma(at)utoronto.ca
- Division(s)/Institute(s)
- Biostatistics Division
- Position
- Assistant Professor
- SGS Status
- Associate Member
- Appointment Status
- Affiliated Scientist - Status Only
Research Interests
- Deep Learning
- Machine Learning
- Bioinformatics
- Computer Vision
- Pattern Recognition
- Image Processing
Other Affiliations
Scientist, University Health Network
Assistant-Professor (tenure-track), Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University
Education & Training History
- Scientific Associate II at the Department of Gastroenterology, Toronto General Hospital
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Biostatistics Division, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
- CIHR STAGE Fellowship, University of Toronto
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Biostatistics Division, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
- Ph.D. in Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur
- M.Tech in Information and Communication Technologies, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur
Full list of Publications
(https://scholar.google.ca/citations?hl=en&user=vc73OAkAAAAJ)
Webpage
Dr. Divya Sharma is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at York University, cross-appointed at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto and as a Scientist at University Health Network (UHN). She leads the IMPACT-AI Lab, advancing interpretable deep learning for high-dimensional, multimodal healthcare data. Her interdisciplinary projects in liver disease, sepsis, cancer, and osteoarthritis integrate generative and multimodal modeling with clinical insight. A recipient of the Petro-Canada Emerging Innovator Award 2025, Dr. Sharma’s work, published in high impact journals like Nature Communications and The Lancet Digital Health has garnered federal and international recognition, supported by major grants from CIHR, NSERC, and SSHRC, positioning her as a leading voice in interpretable, equitable AI for precision medicine.