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2024
Project featured by NRC as success story on AI-powered nutrition for healthy aging, December 2024
Invited to review NSERC Discovery Grant applications, November 2024
Gave an invited presentation at Tokyo Univeristy of Science (hosted by Prof. Eiichi Yoshida), Oct. 24, 2024
Teaching CSI 4133 (Computer Methods in Picture Processing and Analysis) at the University of Ottawa, fall 2024
Student success story featured by the University of Waterloo: Partnering with co-op students to solve real-world challenges
Invited to be an Academic Editor for PLOS Digital Health
Invited to review for AI4VA (AI for visual arts) and OODCV at ECCV 2024
Our MetaFood Workshop at CVPR 2024 is on, check it out!
Food image analysis in each spoonful was featured by New Scientist Magazine, The Wall Street Journal.
Zara Cook's paper on EEG analysis for age prediction received Best Undergraduate Student Paper award at I2MTC 2024, Glasgow, UK
Medical AI research featured by NRC Success Story, May 2024
Invited to give a Guest Lecture at the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Science, Florida Institute of Technology (hosted by Prof. Sujoy Ghosh Hajra), Title: Human-Centric AI for Digital Health, March. 2024
Our TRUDLMIA research framework is featured by the University of Waterloo in a press release , CityNews, Jan. 2024
2023
Invited to review NSERC Discovery Grant applications, December 2023
Invited to give a Guest Lecture at the Department of Computer Science, Lakehead University (hosted by Prof. Garima Bajwa), Title: Human-Centric Sensing and Analysis with AI, October 2023.
Invited to chair New Beginning Initiative for the Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering Committee, July 2023
Paper accepted to CVPR, June 2023
Invited to join GenAI4Good global open source initiative, May 2023
Invited to review thesis report for University of Waterloo, April 2023
2022
Special Issue on "Advances in Body Scanning" by Journal of Imaging is extended! December 2022
Invited to review for NSERC Alliance grant, December 2022
New paper accepted to IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (IF=7.0), December 2022
Invited to serve as Associate Editor for IEEE Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, November 2022
One paper accepted to Med-Neurips 2022, October 2022
One paper accepted to 2022 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, October 2022
Special issue on "Vision- and Image-Based Biomedical Diagnosis" is live! Please contribute your work. September 2022
Invited to serve as a guest editor for Journal of Sensors, Sept. 2022
Invited to review for New Frontiers in Research Fund Transformation Competition (NFRFT 2022), September 2022
Invited to review for NRC Ideation - New Beginnings Initiative, August 2022
One paper accepted to ICML workshop on Healthcare AI and COVID-19, June 2022
Two papers accepted to IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium, May 2022
Invited to be Associate Editor, Frontiers in Oncology, April 2022
Invited to be judges for Capstone projects at optical systems and sensors fair, Carleton University, April 2022
Invited talk on "Introduction to Deep Convolutional Neural Networks and Applications", NRC, March 2022
Invited to provide assessment for BDC Capital’s Deep Tech Venture Fund, March 2022
Invited to evaluate for Deep Space Healthcare Challenge, January 2022
Received "Outstanding Reviewer 2021" recognition from IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society, January 2022
2021
Three papers accepted to 7th Annual Conference on Vision and Intelligent Systems (CVIS 2021)
Invited to review for NSERC Discovery Grants program, November 2021
Special Issue on "Advances in Body Scanning" is live! Please contribute your work! November 2021
Invited to serve as a guest editor for Journal of Imaging, October 2021
New paper accepted to MICCAI FAIR workshop, September 2021
Invited to conduct technical assessment for Creative Destruction Lab, August 2021
Technical Reviewer for Deep Space Food Challenge (organized by Canadian Space Agency), August 2021
New paper accepted to CVPR 2021 Women in Computer vision workshop, June 2021
Invited to Program Committee of VISAPP 2022, International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications, June 2021
Co-organizing an IEEE competition on COVID-19 detection using X-ray images, May-June 2021
Invited to Program Committee of HEALTHINFO 2021, International Conference on Informatics and Assistive Technologies for Health-Care, Medical Support and Wellbeing, April 2021
Two COVID-19 cough papers accepted to IEEE MeMeA 2021: Medical Measurements and Applications, April 2021
Two COVID-19 papers accepted to ICLR 2021 Workshop: Machine Learning for Preventing and Combating Pandemics, April 2021
Invited to International Program Committee (IPC) of the Computer Animation & Social Agents (CASA) 2021 conference , January 2021
2020 and earlier
Received Value for Canada Award from NRC DT research center, December 2020
Promoted to Senior Research Officer at NRC, November 2020
Invited to be an (Adjunct) Assistant Professor at the University of Waterloo, October 2020
Invited to scientific leadership team of NRC Aging In Place challenge program, October 2020
New collaboration with the University of Waterloo on COVID-Net project, May 2020
Invited talk at National Center for High-performance Computing (invited by Dr. Fang-Pang Lin), Hsinchu, Taiwan, October 2019. Title: Deep Learning 1-2-3: Medical Small Data Analysis
Invited by Prof. Ayman El-Baz to contribute to a book on neural networks for computer-aided diagnosis, April 2019.
Invited talk at Université du Québec en Outaouais (invited by Prof. M. Allili), April 2019. Title: A Unified Deep Learning Framework for Multi-Modal Multi-Dimensional Data
Invited talk on deep learning applications at Ottawa AI Workshop, October 2018. Title: Experience with Transfer Learning: from 3D Human Features to Abnormality Detection in Medical Signals and Images
