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Editor-in-Chief, Journal Launch Editorial Executive Board Member, Journal on Machine Learning for Biomedical Image Analysis (MELBA) 2020 - present
Canadian AI CIFAR Chair Recipient, MILA 2019-2024
Invited Keynote Speaker, 11th Israel Machine Vision Conference (IMVC), "Modelling and Propagating Uncertainties in Machine Learning for Medical Image of Patients with Neurological Diseases", Virtual Conference 2020
Invited Plenary Speaker, 42nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 20), "Modelling and Propagating Uncertainties in Machine Learning for Medical Images: Lesion and Tumour Detection, Segmentation, Synthesis and Prediction of Future Disease Evolution", Virtual conference, July 2020. 2020
Conference Co-organizer, Senior Program Co-chair, the 3rd International Conference on Medical Imaging with Deep Learning (MIDL), Virtual Conference, July 2020. 2020
Workshop Co-organizer, MCV: Medical Computer Vision, Workshop held in conjunction with the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Virtual Conference, June 2020. 2020
Invited Plenary Speaker, 2020 Organization of Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting (OHBM) Symposium, "Modelling and Propagating Uncertainties in Machine Learning for Medical Images of Patients with Neurological Diseases", Virtual Conference, June 2020. 2020
Co-organizer, Multimodal Brain Tumour Segmentation Challenge (BraTS) 2019, "Quantification of Uncertainty in Brain Tumour Segmentation", MICCAI 2019, MICCAI 2020. 2019, 2020
Co-organizer, UNSURE: International Workshop on Uncertainty for Safe Utilization of Machine Learning in Medical Imaging, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2019, MICCAI 2020. 2019, 2020
Winner of the McGill Engineering Christophe Pierre Research Award 2019
Invited Plenary Speaker, 2019 Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), "Machine Learning in Medical Image Analysis: Towards MRI-Based Precision Medicine", Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2019. 2019
Scientific Advisory Board Member, Montreal AI Symposium (MAIS) 2019-2021. 2019-2021
Invited Keynote Speaker, 2018 Workshop on Medical Imaging Meets NeurIPS, "Is Your Machine Learning Method Solving a Real Clinical Problem?", Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2018. 2018
Area Chair, International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2019. 2019
Invited Keynote Speaker, 2018 MICCAI Workshop on Large-scale Annotation of Biomedical data and Expert Label Synthesis, "Challenging Conventional Segmentation Evaluation Metrics for Focal Pathology (Lesion and Tumour) Segmentation from Patient Images", Granada, Spain, 2018. Link to slides 2018
Invited Opening Keynote Speaker, 2018 Winter Applied Computer Vision (WACV) Conference, "Probabilistic Machine Learning for Lesion and Tumour Detection, Segmentation and and Disease Prediction in Patient Brain Images", Lake Tahoe, CA, 2018. Link to presentation 2018
Local Industry Sponsorship Chair, International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2021 2021
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2017-2020. 2017-2020
Editorial Board Member, Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), 2016-2019. 2016-2019
Satellite Events Chair, International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Aided Intervention (MICCAI), Quebec, Canada, 2017. 2017
Program Committee Member, 19th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2016. 2016
Area Chair, IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2014, 2016, 2021. 2014, 2016, 2021
Invited Presenter, First Amazon Faculty Invitational Research Symposium, May 4-5, 2015, Seattle, WA, USA. 2015
Invited Speaker, International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2015: "Special Session on Current Challenges and Methodological Advances in Medical Image Registration", Brooklyn, New York, 2015. 2015
Workshop Co-organizer, "BAMBI: Bayesian and grAphical Models for Biomedical Imaging Workshop", Workshop held in conjunction with The 17th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), Munich, Germany, October, 2015. 2015
Guest Editor, Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU): "Special Issue on Probabilistic Models for Biomedical Image Analysis"
Session Chair, Session on "Segmentation and Grouping", IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2014. 2014
Workshop Co-organizer, "BAMBI: Bayesian and grAphical Models for Biomedical Imaging Workshop", Workshop held in conjunction with The 17th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA, September 2014. 2014
General Chair, the joint 20th Canadian Conference on Artifical Intelligence, the 33rd Graphics Interface Conference, the 4th Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision, and the 17th Annual Canadian Conference on Intelligent Systems, May 2007. 2007
Outstanding Reviewer Award, CVPR 2013: 26th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. 2013
Invited Keynote Speaker, 2018 Workshop on Medical Imaging Meets NeurIPS, "Is Your Machine Learning Method Solving a Real Clinical Problem?", Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2018. 2018