Service
Conference organization, educational initiatives, and technical mentorship.
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
| iMIMIC Interpretable AI Workshop at MICCAI | 2023, 2024 |
General Chair
- Assisted in organizing CMT + paper reviewing in 2023
- Publicity, outreach and local organization in 2024 (see here)
| 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
| BENDER Series for Medical Imaging | 2022 - 2026 |
Actor/reviewer
- side-gig as a YouTube series actor learning medical imaging through BENDER.
| IEEE TENCON 2019 | October 2019 |
Instructor for 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 |
Instructor for Full-day Workshop: “Demystifying Deep Learning using MATLAB”
- 30 participants, hands-on computer vision demonstrations
- Pre-trained networks, transfer learning, GPU deployment
Teaching and Peer-review
Introduction to Image Analysis (2026)
Course Instructor (with Prof. Dr. Reyes, Dr. Ramirez, and Dr. Marquez-Neila)
Medical Image Analysis (2022-2024)
Course Instructor (with Shelley Shu, Mike Mueller, Elias Ruefenacht, Jayden You)
- 2024: Introduced GitHub Classroom for automated assignment management → student rating: 4.89/5.0
- 2023: Implemented video lectures, Slack channels, hospital clinic visits → student rating: 4.92/5.0
- 2022: Complete curriculum redesign with interactive, hands-on approach → student rating: 4.94/5.0 (53% improvement from 3.25)
Student feedback: “Absolutely enjoyed this course… fantastic job… highly appreciate how interactive the course was”; “Improved programming skills… TA was extremely helpful and nice!”;
Biomedical Engineering Lab (2022)
Course Instructor (with Yannick Suter)
- Designed practical rotation course for incoming Master’s students
- Hands-on introduction to medical image analysis research methodology
Reviewer
- Journals: npj Precision Oncology, Radiation Oncology, Scientific Reports;
- Conferences: MIDL 2026 (full-paper x2)
- Community: DLinRT.eu