Updates
Latest research publications, awards, conference organization, and professional milestones.
| Sep 07, 2025 | Thesis Presentation: After four years, I finally defended my PhD thesis on the 19th of September. Please see a sanitized version here. |
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| Sep 06, 2025 | Journal Publication: “The impact of U-Net architecture choices and skip connections on the robustness of segmentation across texture variations” accepted in Computers in Biology and Medicine! Read more. |
| Jun 26, 2025 | Journal Publication: “Predicting the impact of target volume contouring variations on the organ at risk dose: results of a qualitative survey” accepted in Radiotherapy and Oncology (Green Journal)! Read more. |
| Apr 11, 2025 | Innovation Fellowship: Selected as one of five University of Bern Venture Fellows for 2025-26, supporting entrepreneurial initiatives in technology transfer and innovation. |
| Mar 30, 2025 | Educational Content: New video tutorial on integrating MONAI and MATLAB published on the MathWorks YouTube channel, demonstrating cross-platform deep learning workflows. Full tutorial. |
| Mar 14, 2025 | Conference Success: Successfully organized BART 2025 - the inaugural Bern AI in RadioTherapy symposium. Featured 3 keynote speakers, 2 industry sponsors, 9 research posters, and ~100 international attendees. |
| Nov 30, 2024 | Student Achievement: Zahira Mercado (my Master’s student advisee) won the CAIM Research Award in the Translation category for her outstanding contributions to ContourAId. Congratulations, Zahira! |
| Nov 07, 2024 | International Recognition: Research presentation selected as one of 100 “lab” pitches from researchers across 60+ countries at the Falling Walls Science Summit 2024 - commemorating the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. |
| Oct 07, 2024 | Workshop Paper: “AutoDoseRank: Automated Dosimetry-Informed Segmentation Ranking for Radiotherapy” accepted at CaPTion@MICCAI Workshop. Learn more. |
| Jul 01, 2024 | Research Publication: Our paper “Comparing the Performance of Radiation Oncologists versus a Deep Learning Dose Predictor” accepted for oral presentation at MIDL 2024 (18% acceptance rate, 36/217 submissions). Read more. |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Research Presentation: Our work on “Comparing the Performance of Radiation Oncologists versus a Deep Learning Dose Predictor” was presented at the Uni Bern GCB Symposium 2024 in the full-talk track. Read more. |
| May 27, 2024 | Conference Abstracts: Two abstracts accepted at IEEE ISBI 2024! Congratulations to Zahira Mercado for outstanding presentation as part of her Master’s thesis research. |
| Oct 08, 2023 | Research Publications: Two papers accepted at MICCAI 2023 (Vancouver) - “Do we really need that skip connection?” (Early Accept, top 14%) and “Dose Guidance for Radiotherapy-oriented Deep Learning Segmentation”. Read more. |
| Jul 26, 2023 | Research Recognition: Awarded 2nd place Best Student Paper at IEEE EMBC 2023 for “ASTRA: Atomic Surface Transformations for Radiotherapy quality Assurance”. Award announcement. “ASTRA: Atomic Surface Transformations for Radiotherapy quality Assurance” was accepted for oral presentation at IEEE EMBC 2023 in Sydney. Learn more. |
| Jun 05, 2023 | Speaking Engagement: Invited to share “Young Researchers Tales” at the 8x8 event, Haus der Universität, organized by MVUB. Event highlights. |
| May 05, 2023 | Conference Presentation: Presented dose prediction model sensitivity research at Bern Data Science Day 2023, advancing clinical AI validation methodologies. Event highlights. |
| Apr 18, 2023 | Research Publication: “How sensitive are deep learning based radiotherapy dose prediction models to variability in Organs At Risk segmentation?” accepted at IEEE ISBI 2023 in Cartagena. Learn more. I am also delighted to attend the IEEE EMBS-SPS Summer School on Biomedical Imaging co-organized with ISBI 2023 in sunny Cartagena. Read more. |
| Mar 24, 2023 | Event Organization: Leading BIAS 2023 - Bern Interpretable AI Symposium featuring distinguished keynote speakers, research posters, and industry collaboration. 140+ attendees from 5 countries. Event highlights. |
| Dec 02, 2022 | Workshop Paper: Abstract accepted at Medical Imaging meets NeurIPS 2022 exploring context vs. foreground-background ratio trade-offs in 3D segmentation. Read more. |
| Nov 24, 2022 | Research Recognition: Awarded the 2022 CAIM Research Award in the “Translational” category for outstanding contributions to medical AI research. Grateful for support from Be-Advanced! |
| Oct 27, 2022 | Conference Presentation: Presented “Deep Dose Predictor” research at Swiss Society for Radiobiology and Medical Physics (SSRMP), advancing AI applications in radiotherapy planning. Presentation highlights. |
| Sep 10, 2022 | Public Engagement: Demonstrated AI games (KI-Spiele) at Nacht der Forschung - University of Bern’s Night of Research public outreach event. Activity details. |
| Sep 03, 2022 | Competition Success: Won the MICCAI Hackathon 2022, demonstrating innovative approaches to medical image analysis challenges. Repository, Presentation. |
| May 06, 2022 | Conference Presentation: Poster presentation at Bern Data Science Day 2022. View poster. |
| Oct 15, 2021 | PhD Journey Begins: Started doctoral studies in Biomedical Engineering at the Medical Image Analysis Lab, University of Bern, under Prof. Mauricio Reyes. |
| Dec 12, 2020 | Academic Milestone: Completed Master’s degree in Computer Science (OMSCS) from Georgia Institute of Technology with 3.7/4.0 GPA. Got out with distinction! |