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Narges Ahmidi is a leading researcher at the intersection of artificial intelligence, computer vision, and robotic surgery, with a primary focus on automated surgical skill assessment and gesture recognition. Her pioneering work has fundamentally advanced how surgical performance can be objectively measured and analyzed. She is best known for creating the JIGSAWS dataset, a landmark contribution that has garnered over 288 citations and established a standardized benchmark for segmenting and recognizing gestures in robotic surgery. This foundational resource enabled the field to move beyond study-specific validations toward reproducible, comparative evaluations. Ahmidi further demonstrated the power of deep learning in this domain, showing how recurrent neural networks can effectively segment and classify surgical activities with high accuracy. Her research has also introduced innovative methods for quantifying surgical skill, including string motif-based descriptions of tool motion and task-level metrics that distinguish between novice and expert performance. By bridging computational modeling with clinical training needs, Ahmidi’s work has directly impacted how surgeons are evaluated and trained, offering scalable, data-driven solutions that promise to enhance healthcare delivery and patient safety.