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Calibrated Lab

Calibrated Lab

Teaching machines to say “I am not sure.”

I am Ilhame Ait Lbachir, a computer science professor and AI researcher. I help researchers do work that holds up to scrutiny: stronger research, sharper papers, proposals, and talks, with a specialist’s eye for trustworthy, uncertainty-aware AI.

Confidence that matches the evidence.

mass p=0.86 UNCERTAINTY malignant 0.86 95% CI [0.71, 0.94] H=0.41

Synthetic scan. Illustrative, not a real patient image.

10 years
in research
130+
peer reviews
IEEE + Springer
published venues
IWBBIO 2026
conference talks

What I do

Help you do work that holds up to scrutiny.

Not louder work. Stronger work. Here is where I go deep.

01

Research that holds up to scrutiny

Methodology and experimental design that survive a hard read. How to frame a question, run experiments that mean something, and report results reviewers trust.

02

Papers, proposals, and talks that get accepted

The craft of writing for acceptance. How a paper actually gets written, where proposals fall apart, and what reviewers look for before they say yes.

03

A specialist’s lens on trustworthy AI

From my own research: uncertainty quantification, explainability, and calibration for medical imaging. How to reason about AI you can actually trust, made clear.

A named standard

The Calibrated Method

The standard I hold myself to, and the one I teach. Confidence that matches the evidence, never more.

01

Claim only what the evidence supports

Every sentence earns its place. If the data does not back it, it does not ship.

02

Stress-test before submission

Read your own work the way a hostile reviewer will. Find the holes before they do.

03

Report uncertainty honestly

Say what you do not know. Calibrated confidence is more persuasive than false certainty.

Proof

Selected work

All research and publications

Uncertainty Quantification for Trustworthy Breast Cancer CAD in Mammography: A Critical Review and Research Agenda

I. Ait Lbachir, I. Daoudi, R. Nassih · International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Digital Applications (ISDA), IEEE

Published 2026

Digital Breast Tomosynthesis Reconstruction Techniques in Healthcare Systems: A Review

I. Samiry, I. Ait Lbachir, I. Daoudi, S. Tallal, S. Adil · International Work-Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering (IWBBIO), Springer

Published 2023

Automatic computer-aided diagnosis system for mass detection and classification in mammography

I. Ait Lbachir, I. Daoudi, S. Tallal · Multimedia Tools and Applications (vol. 80), Springer

Journal 2021

Free kit

The pre-submission checklist reviewers wish you used.

Thirty checks I run before any paper goes out, distilled from reviewing more than 130 of them. The things reviewers reject for, before they ever reach a reviewer.

  • Claims matched to evidence, line by line
  • The methodology holes reviewers find first
  • Figures, tables, and stats that survive scrutiny
  • The cover letter that frames your contribution

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Courses

Learn the craft, end to end.

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Coming soon

Research Methodology in AI: Experiments That Get Published

The full workflow from question to accepted paper. Experimental design, honest evaluation, and writing that gets past reviewers.

Ilhame Ait Lbachir

About

The real version of how research happens.

I am a computer science professor and AI researcher working on AI you can actually trust. Calibrated Lab is where I share how that work really happens. Not the polished version. The real one.

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