EPIMI Organizing Team
Workshop Chairs
John Baxter - Université de Rennes
John Baxter is a Chargé de Recherche (Associate Research Professor) at the Université de Rennes in France where he researches the interaction between clinical users and artificial intelligence systems in medicine. He is also a member of the MICCAI Society Office Team, helping to organise MICCAI events since 2016. His philosophical interests include the epistemology of imaging, semiotics in image processing, and the role of both clinicians and computers in medicine.
Islem Rekik - Imperial College London
Islem Rekik is is the Director of the Brain And SIgnal Research and Analysis (BASIRA) laboratory (http://basira-lab.com/) and an Associate Professor at Imperial College London (Innovation Hub I-X). Together with BASIRA members, she conducted more than 90 cutting-edge research projects cross-pollinating AI and healthcare —with a sharp focus on brain imaging and neuroscience. She is also a co/chair/organizer of more than 20 international first-class conferences/workshops/competitions (e.g., Affordable AI 2021-22, Predictive AI 2018-2023, Machine Learning in Medical Imaging 2021-23, WILL competition 2021-22). Dr Rekik has been awarded prestigious international research fellowships including the EU Marie-Curie Fellowship in 2019 and the TUBITAK 2232 for Outstanding Experienced Researchers during 2020-2022. In addition to her 130+ high-impact publications, she is a strong advocate of equity, inclusiveness and diversity in research. She is the former president of the Women in MICCAI (WiM), the co-founder of the international RISE Network to Reinforce Inclusiveness & diverSity and Empower minority researchers in Low-Middle Income Countries (LMIC) and a committee member of the AFRICAI network. She is in the organizing committee of MICCAI 2022 (Singapore), 2023 (Vancouver) and 2024 (Marrakesh).
Roy Eagleson - Western University
Roy Eagleson is a Professor in the Faculty of Engineering at the Western University, an Associate Scientist at the Robarts Research Institute, and a Scientist and Principal Investigator at the Canadian Surgical Technologies and Advanced Robotics research centre in Canada. His philosophical interests include human-computer interaction and training in computer-assisted interventions.
Ghada Zamzmi - Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Ghada Zamzmi joined the Communication Engineering Branch at Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications (LHNCBC) in February 2019. She received her PhD degree from University of South Florida in 2018. She focuses on using computational sciences and engineering techniques toward advancing healthcare of vulnerable populations (e.g., infants, minority groups). Ghada research interests include medical imaging, affective and cognitive computing, human behavior analysis, and healthcare application. She has >12 journal papers published in top tier journals (e.g., Transactions on Affective Computing), >15 conference publications and two patents. She served in the program committee in several top conferences in Computer Vision including CVPR, NeurIPS, and MICCAI. She chaired several academic workshops and events in her area of interests, led and participated in several mentoring programs. Ghada received different prestigious awards such as MIT Innovator under 35 and IEEE Computational Life Sciences best PhD Thesis Award (2019). She’s selected as the North America Ambassador for the international organization Women in AI.