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
2024 | Course Instructor (with Shelley Shu)
- Introduced GitHub Classroom for automated assignment management
- Student evaluation: 4.89/5.0
- “Absolutely enjoyed this course… fantastic job… highly appreciate how interactive the course was”
2023 | Course Instructor (with Shelley Shu, Mike Mueller)
- Implemented video lectures, Slack communication channels, hospital clinic visits
- Student evaluation: 4.92/5.0
- “Improved programming skills… TA was extremely helpful and nice!”
2022 | Course Instructor (with Elias Ruefenacht, Jayden You)
- Complete curriculum redesign with interactive, hands-on approach
- 53% improvement in student satisfaction (3.25 → 4.94/5.0)
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
- AI in Radiotherapy (TARA) - Open-source educational content for researchers worldwide
- BENDER Learning Modules - Technical workshop series delivered across India
Impact Summary
- Organized 2 international symposiums → 240+ researchers engaged
- Taught 400+ students across 3 years with consistently high evaluations (4.89-4.94/5.0)
- Delivered 5+ workshops reaching 100+ industry professionals
- Created open educational resources accessed by global research community