Service

Conference organization, educational initiatives, and technical mentorship.

Conference Organization & Leadership

Bern AI in Radiotherapy (BART) Symposium | March 2025
Lead Organizer

  • International symposium attracting 100+ attendees from 5 countries
  • Curated program: 3 keynote presentations, 11 posters, 3 flash talks
  • Focus: Cross-disciplinary collaboration in AI and clinical radiotherapy

Bern Interpretable AI (BIAS) Symposium | March 2023
Lead Organizer

  • Hybrid event with 140 participants (70 online from 5 countries)
  • Hosted in University of Bern’s Cupola room
  • Established networking platform for interpretable AI research community

Teaching & Curriculum Development

University of Bern - Medical Image Analysis Course (2022-2024)

Course Instructor (with Shelley Shu, Mike Mueller, Elias Ruefenacht, Jayden You)
3-year evolution of curriculum with consistently exceptional student evaluations

  • 2024: Introduced GitHub Classroom for automated assignment management → 4.89/5.0
  • 2023: Implemented video lectures, Slack channels, hospital clinic visits → 4.92/5.0
  • 2022: Complete curriculum redesign with interactive, hands-on approach → 4.94/5.0 (53% improvement from 3.25)

Sustained Impact: Maintained student satisfaction above 4.89/5.0 across all three years through continuous innovation in teaching methods and technology integration.

Student feedback: “Absolutely enjoyed this course… fantastic job… highly appreciate how interactive the course was” “Improved programming skills… TA was extremely helpful and nice!”

2022 | Biomedical Engineering Lab Instructor (with Yannick Suter)

  • Designed practical rotation course for incoming Master’s students
  • Hands-on introduction to medical image analysis research methodology

Industry Workshops & Training

IEEE TENCON 2019 | October 2019
3-hour Tutorial: “Deep Learning with MATLAB”

  • Highest attended parallel tutorial (50+ participants)
  • Topics: Network design, visualization, training challenges, GPU deployment

IEEE DISCOVER 2019 | August 2019
Full-day Workshop: “Demystifying Deep Learning using MATLAB”

  • 30 participants, hands-on computer vision demonstrations
  • Pre-trained networks, transfer learning, GPU deployment

Open Educational Resources