Our Speakers

Keynote speakers

Daniel Racoceanu, PhD

Sorbonne University, France

Dr. Daniel Racoceanu is a professor at Sorbonne University, Paris, France and and PI of the INRIA team Aramis at the Paris Brain Institute (CNRS UMR 7225 – Inserm U 1127), his areas of interest are BioMedical Image Analysis, Pattern Recognition, and Machine (including Deep) Learning, with research focus on Computational Pathology and its Integrative aspects, with the present goal of revealing novel neuropathological entities associated with patients’ clinical stratification. Dr.Habil./HDR (2006) and Ph.D. (1997) of the Univ. of Franche-Comté, Besançon, France. From 2005 to 2014, he participated to the creation and the development of the International Joint Research Unit/Lab (IPAL - UMI CNRS 2955) Image & Pervasive Access Lab in Singapore. From 2009 to 2015, he was Professor at the School of Computing, National University of Singapore. From 2014 to 2016, he was a member of the Executive Board of the University Institute of Health Engineering of the Sorbonne University. From 2016 to 2018 he was Professor in BioMedical Image and Data Analytics at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. Member of the Advisory Board (since 2020) after being President (2018-2020) and Vice-President (2016-2018) of the European Society for Digital Integrative Pathology (ESDIP), I am also (since 2018) member of the MICCAI Board of Directors (Medical Image Computing & Computer Assisted Intervention), being in charge (General Chair) of MICCAI 2020 (awarded for the first time, to Latin America).

Pamela Guevara, PhD

Universidad de Concepción, Chile

Dr. Pamela Guevara is an Electronics Engineer from Universidad de Concepción, Chile. She has a Master degree in Medical Imaging and a PhD degree in Physics, both from the Université Paris-Sud, France. She developed her Master and PhD theses in the brain neuroimaging center Neurospin, Saclay, France. She is currently Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universidad de Concepción. She teaches different undergraduate and graduate courses of Computer Programming and Digital Image Processing. She also leads a Medical Image Analysis group with the main focus of the study of brain connectivity. She has participated as a researcher in several Chilean R&D projects, like FONDECYT, FONDEF, ANILLO and since 2018 she is researcher of the Chilean Advanced Center for Electrical and Electronic Engineering (AC3E). She serves as an Associate Editor of Biomedical Engineering Online Journal (since 2018). During 2019-2021 she is a member of the IEEE SPS Bio Imaging and Signal Processing (BISP) Technical Committee. Her main research area is related to the study of structural brain connectivity based on diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging.

Leo Joskowicz, PhD, PhD

Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Dr. Leo Joskowicz is a Professor at the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel since 1995. He is the founder and director of the Computer-Aided Surgery and Medical Image Processing Laboratory (CASMIP Lab). Prof. Joskowicz is a Fellow of the IEEE, ASME, and MICCAI (Medical Image Processing and Computer Aided Intervention) Societies. He is the President of the MICCAI Society and was the Secretary General of the International Society of Computer Aided Orthopaedic Surgery (CAOS) and the International Society for Computer Assisted Surgery (ISCAS). He is the recipient of the 2010 Maurice E. Muller Award for Excellence in Computer Assisted Surgery by the International Society of Computer Aided Orthopaedic Surgery and the 2007 Kaye Innovation Award. He has published over 250 technical works including conference and journal papers, book chapters, and editorials and has 12 issued patents. He is on the Editorial Boards of six journals, including Medical Image Analysis, Int. J. of Computer Aided Surgery, Computer Aided Surgery, and Nature Scientific Reports and has served on numerous related program committees.

Alexandre Xavier Falcão, PhD

University of Campinas - Brazil

Dr. Alexandre Xavier Falcao is a full professor at the Institute of Computing (IC), University of Campinas (Unicamp), where he has worked since 1998. He attended the Federal University of Pernambuco from 1984-1988, where he got a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering. He then attended Unicamp, where he got an M.Sc. (1993), and a Ph.D. (1996), in Electrical Engineering, by working on volumetric data visualization and medical image segmentation. He served as Associate Director of IC-Unicamp (2006-2007), Coordinator of its Post-Graduation Program (2009-2011), and Senior Area Editor of IEEE Signal Processing Letters (2016-2020). He is currently a research fellow at the top level for the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), President of the Special Commission of Computer Graphics and Image Processing (CEGRAPI) for the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC), and Area Coordinator of Computer Science for the Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP). His research work aims at computational models to learn and interpret the semantic content of images in the domain of several applications. The areas of interest include image and video processing, data visualization, medical image analysis, remote sensing, graph algorithms, image annotation, organization, and retrieval, and (interactive) machine learning and pattern recognition.