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Farzaneh received Best Paper Runner-Up Award at MICCAI 2026
Congratulations to Farzaneh on receiving the Best Paper Runner-Up award at MICCAI 2026!
Mansi successfully completes MSc defence
Congratulations to Mansi on her successful MSc Defence!
Brooke successfully completes MSc defence
Congratulations to Brooke on her successful MSc Defence!
Dr. Bento nominated for an ASTech Award
Congratulations to Dr. Bento for being nominated for an ASTech Award!
Maya presents at the BME Undergraduate Summer Symposium
Congratulations to Maya for presenting their work at the 20th Annual BME Undergraduate Summer Symposium!
Andrea presents at the BME Undergraduate Summer Symposium
Congratulations to Andrea for presenting their work at the 20th Annual BME Undergraduate Summer Symposium!
Brooke presents at IEEE EMBC 2026
Congratulations to Brooke for presenting their work at the IEEE EMBC 2026!
Zeyad successfully completes MSc defence
Congratulations to Zeyad on his successful MSc Defence!
Brooke paper accepted at EMBC 2026
Congratulations to Brooke on having her paper accepted at EMBC 2026!
Dr. Bento receives Women in Engineering & Geoscience Champion Award
Congratulations to Dr. Bento on receiving the Women in Engineering & Geoscience Champion Award!
Saad Ashraf successfully completes MSc defence
Congratulations to Saad Ashraf on his successful MSc Defence!
Dr. Bento highlighted in Women-Led Research feature
Celebrating Women-Led Research: Dr. Bento was highlighted as one of the women researchers helping shape the future of research in Canada.
Zeyad paper accepted at MIDL
Congratulations to Zeyad on having his paper accepted at MIDL!
Arshin and Anik works accepted at ISMRM 2026
Congratulations to Arshin and Anik on having their works accepted at ISMRM 2026!
AI2Lab team volunteers at Women in Engineering Day 2026
A team from AI2Lab successfully participated as volunteers in Women in Engineering Day 2026!
Farzaneh Dehghani completes BME Stage 2 candidacy defence
Congratulations to Farzaneh Dehghani on a successful BME Stage 2 candidacy (Field of Study) defence!
Farzaneh Dehghani receives Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship
Congratulations to Farzaneh Dehghani on being awarded the Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship (AGES)!
Saad, Mumu and Youssef accepted at MICCAI 2025 workshops
Congratulations to Saad, Mumu and Youssef on having their work accepted at workshops at MICCAI 2025!
Nour receives Huangqi Sun Memorial Graduate Scholarship
Congratulations to Nour on receiving a Huangqi Sun Memorial Graduate Scholarship!
Gabriel successfully completes MSc defence
Congratulations to Gabriel on a successful MSc defence!
Brooke Kindleman receives Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship
Congratulations to Brooke Kindleman on being awarded the Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship (AGES)!
Tasneem work accepted early at MICCAI 2025
Congratulations to Tasneem on having her work accepted early at MICCAI 2025!
Tasneem Nasser completes BME Stage 1 candidacy defence
Congratulations to Tasneem Nasser on a successful BME Stage 1 candidacy defence!
Mariana Bento awarded Schulich Momentum grant
Congratulations to Mariana Bento on being awarded a Schulich Momentum grant to develop research in the use of AI in education!
Hanna Bugler awarded NSERC doctoral scholarship
Congratulations to Hanna Bugler on being awarded an NSERC doctoral scholarship!
Farzaneh Dehghani completes BME Stage 1 candidacy defence
Congratulations to Farzaneh Dehghani on a successful BME Stage 1 candidacy defence!
Stephen Moore awarded NSERC CGS-M scholarship
Congratulations to Stephen Moore on being awarded an NSERC CGS-M scholarship!
Stephen Moore and Nour Khalefa receive awards
Congratulations to Stephen Moore for receiving the 2024 BME Research Excellence Award and Nour Khalefa for receiving the Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship!
Mahsa Dibaji successfully completes MSc defence
Congratulations to Mahsa Dibaji on her successful MSc Defence!
Dr. Bento delivers keynote at Fairness 2025
Congratulations to Dr. Bento on delivering a keynote during the 1st International Workshop on Fairness in Software Systems (Fairness 2025)!
Anik Das presents at SPIE 2025
Congratulations to Anik Das, MSc, for presenting their work at the 2025 SPIE!
Ana Clara receives Women in Data Science best poster award
Congratulations to Ana Clara on receiving the best poster award in the Women in Data Science!
Alexandre Lopes and Peyman Tahghighi complete PhD defences
Congratulations to Drs. Alexandre Lopes and Peyman Tahghighi on their successful PhD defences!
AI2Lab welcomes Ana Clara Silveira and Wesna Araujo
The AI2Lab welcomes Ana Clara Silveira and Wesna Araujo, visiting students from UNICAMP who stayed with the lab through the end of May.
Dr. Bento receives Schulich teaching and momentum awards
Congratulations to Dr. Bento on receiving the Schulich Undergraduate Teaching and Momentum Excellence awards!
Natalia successfully completes MSc defence
Congratulations to Natalia on a successful MSc defence. Natalia will be joining Circle Cardiovascular in January.
Abbas Omidi successfully completes MSc defence
Congratulations to Abbas Omidi on a successful MSc defence!
Rittner, Bento and Souza receive CNPq grant
Congratulations to Drs. Rittner, Bento, and Souza on receiving a CNPq grant to increase research exchanges between UCalgary and UNICAMP!
Dr. Souza co-applicant on successful LevMax-Health grant
Congratulations to Dr. Souza, a co-applicant in a successful LevMax-Health grant. This grant will further broaden the lab work beyond brain imaging!
Dr. Souza awarded UCalgary Connector grant
Congratulations to Dr. Souza on being awarded a UCalgary Connector grant!
AI2Lab says farewell to Amir
The lab says farewell to Amir, who recently moved on to a job at Synex.
Jacob and team place third in 2024 ISLES challenge
Congratulations to Jacob and the team on placing 3rd in the 2024 ISLES challenge at MICCAI!
Hanna receives Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship
Congratulations to Hanna on receiving the Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarships (AGES) - Doctoral Research!
Mahsa and Anik papers accepted at Frontiers
Congratulations to Mahsa and Anik on having their papers accepted at Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience!
Farzaneh and Kaue papers accepted at SIPAIM 2024
Congratulations to Farzaneh and Kaue on having their papers accepted at SIPAIM 2024!
AI2Lab welcomes new Fall 2024 trainees
Welcome to all the new trainees joining AI2Lab in Fall 2024!
Mohammad paper accepted at IEEE ITSC 2024
Congratulations to Mohammad on having a paper accepted at the 2024 IEEE ITSC!
Mahsa receives International Master’s Scholarship
Congratulations to Mahsa on receiving the Faculty of Graduate Studies International Master's Scholarship!
Hanna completes field of study exam
Congratulations to Hanna on a successful field of study exam!
Peyman work accepted for publication at MICCAI
Congratulations to Peyman on having his work accepted for publication at MICCAI!
Peyman receives Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship
Congratulations to Peyman on receiving an Alberta Graduate Excellence scholarship!
Hanna wins Dragon’s Den People’s Choice
Congratulations to Hanna on winning the Dragon's Den People's Choice at the HBI research day!
Anik successfully completes MSc defence
Congratulations to Anik on a successful MSc defence!
Hanna and Rodrigo work accepted at Elsevier MRI
Congratulations to Hanna and Rodrigo on having their work accepted for publication at Elsevier MRI!
Dr. Souza and team selected for SPARK Alberta
Congratulations to Dr. Souza and the team on being selected for the SPARK Alberta program!
Dr. Bento gives invited talk at BRAINN Congress
Congratulations to Dr. Bento on her excellent invited talk at the 10th BRAINN Congress!
Abbas paper accepted at MIDL 2024
Congratulations to Abbas and co-authors on having a full paper accepted at the 2024 MIDL!
Souza and Bento awarded Alberta Innovates LevMax-Health grant
Congratulations to Drs. Souza and Bento on being awarded an Alberta Innovates LevMax-Health grant!
Rodrigo, Hanna and Gabriel paper accepted at MAGMA
Congratulations to Rodrigo, Hanna, and Gabriel on having the Edited-MRS reconstruction challenge paper accepted at MAGMA!
Natalia paper accepted in MRM
Congratulations to Natalia on having her MRM paper accepted for publication!
Hanna receives Graduate Teaching Assistant Award
Congratulations to Hanna on receiving a Graduate Teaching Assistant Award!
Hanna Bugler wins WiDS best poster award
Congratulations to Hanna Bugler on winning the WiDS best poster award!
Dr. Leticia Rittner awarded Killam Visiting Scholar
Congratulations to Dr. Leticia Rittner on being awarded the Killam Visiting Scholar! Drs. Rittner and Bento spearheaded the application.
Dr. Bento organizes successful WiDS event
Congratulations to Dr. Bento for organizing a very successful WiDS event!
Daniel Lee and Grazia Mena awarded NSERC USRAs
Congratulations to Daniel Lee and Grazia Mena on being awarded NSERC USRAs!
Aminreza Abbasi receives Alberta Innovates Summer Research Studentship
Congratulations to Aminreza Abbasi on receiving an Alberta Innovates Summer Research Studentship!
Abbas receives Graduate Student Research Impact Excellence Award
Congratulations to Abbas on receiving the Graduate Student Research Impact Excellence Award!
Abbas, Mahsa and Mohammad receive ESE Graduate Research Awards
Congratulations to Abbas, Mahsa and Mohammad on receiving the ESE Graduate Research Awards!
Peyman receives Mitacs-Accelerate Graduate Research Internship
Congratulations to Peyman on receiving the Mitacs-Accelerate Graduate Research Internship!
Hanna receives Alberta Innovates Graduate Student Scholarship
Congratulations to Hanna on receiving the Alberta Innovates Graduate Student Scholarship!
Mahsa receives Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship
Congratulations to Mahsa on receiving the Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship (AGES) award for Winter 2024!
Hanna, Natalia and Amir abstracts accepted at ISMRM 2024
Congratulations to Hanna, Natalia, and Amir for having abstracts accepted at the 2024 ISMRM!
Hanna completes Stage 1 PhD candidacy exam
Congratulations to Hanna on a successful stage 1 PhD candidacy exam!
Dr. Bento awarded NSERC Alliance grant
Congratulations to Dr. Bento on being awarded an NSERC Alliance – Alberta Innovates Advance stream II grant!
Souza and Bento have Alberta Innovates LEVMAX grant approved
Congratulations to Drs. Souza and Bento on having an Alberta Innovates LEVMAX grant approved!
Pedro receives Harley Hotchkiss–Samuel Weiss Postdoctoral Fellowship
Congratulations to Pedro on receiving the Harley Hotchkiss – Samuel Weiss Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Hotchkiss Brain Institute.
Natalia receives Alberta Innovates Graduate Student Scholarship
Congratulations to Natalia on receiving the Alberta Innovates Graduate Student scholarship!
Mohammad completes PhD candidacy exam
Congratulations to Mohammad on his successful PhD candidacy exam!
Hanna receives University of Calgary Graduate Studies Scholarship
Congratulations to Hanna on receiving the University of Calgary Graduate Studies Scholarship!
Hanna receives 2023 BME Research Excellence Award
Congratulations to Hanna on receiving the 2023 BME Research Excellence Award!
Neha successfully completes MSc defence
Congratulations to Neha on her successful MSc defence!
Mahsa wins best poster award at MICCAI FAIMI
Congratulations to Mahsa on receiving the best poster award at the MICCAI FAIMI workshop!
Abbas paper accepted at IEEE WACV
Congratulations to Abbas and co-authors on having his paper titled "Unsupervised Domain Adaptation of MRI Skull-stripping Trained on Adult Data to Newborns" accepted at IEEE WACV!
Rodrigo successfully completes MSc defence
Congratulations to Rodrigo on a successful MSc defence!
Neha, Rodrigo and Hanna papers accepted at MICCAI workshop
Congratulations to Neha, Rodrigo and Hanna on having their papers accepted at the 2023 MICCAI workshop on Machine Learning in Medical Imaging!
Mahsa work accepted at MICCAI Fairness workshop
Congratulations to Mahsa on her work accepted at the 2023 MICCAI Workshop on Fairness of AI in Medical Imaging. The work was done in collaboration with Mansi, Akhil and Neha!
Hanna receives Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship
Congratulations to Hanna on receiving the Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship!
AI2Lab bids farewell to MITACS summer students
We bid our MITACS summer students farewell! It was a pleasure working with Timothy, Yogesh, Swastik, Mansi, and Akhil!
Neha presents at ICML healthcare workshop
Neha presented her work in collaboration with Mahsa at the ICML workshop on Interpretable Machine Learning in Healthcare!
Neha and Mahsa paper accepted at ICML workshop
Congratulations to Neha and Mahsa on having a paper accepted at the 2023 ICML workshop on Interpretable Machine Learning in Healthcare!
Natalia wins NSERC master’s scholarship
Congratulations to Natalia for winning the competitive NSERC master's scholarship!
Natalia wins Alberta Graduate Excellence Research Scholarship
Congratulations to Natalia for winning the Alberta Graduate Excellence Research Scholarship!
Abbas wins Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship for second time
Congratulations to Abbas for winning the Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship for the second time!
Yogesh, Timothy, Swastik, Mansi and Akil receive MITACS scholarships
Congratulations and welcome to Yogesh, Timothy, Swastik, Mansi and Akil! They received a MITACS Globalink scholarship to spend the summer doing research in our lab!
Farzaneh receives HBI International Graduate Recruitment Scholarship
Congratulations to Farzaneh who received the HBI International Graduate Recruitment Scholarship and is joining our lab Fall 2023 for her PhD!
Armin receives Alberta Innovates Summer Research Studentship
Congratulations to Armin who received the Alberta Innovates Summer Research Studentship and joined our lab for summer research on AI and imaging!
Neha gets internship at AltaML
Congratulations to Neha on getting an internship at AltaML!
Hanna and Rodrigo work featured in Computer Vision News
Hanna and Rodrigo's work was featured in Computer Vision News!
Edited-MRS reconstruction challenge held at ISBI 2023
Congratulations to Hanna and Rodrigo on organizing a successful Edited-MRS reconstruction challenge during the 2023 ISBI. The team Deep Spectral Divers from MICLab won the challenge!
Dr. Souza receives Schulich teaching excellence award
Congratulations to Dr. Souza on receiving the teaching excellence award from the Schulich School of Engineering!
Mahsa receives multiple TA awards
Congratulations to Mahsa on receiving awards for Fall 2022 TA of the Week, TA of the Semester, and SSE first-year Best TA!
Hanna and Rodrigo ISMRM abstract selected for oral presentation
Congratulations to Hanna and Rodrigo on their ISMRM abstract being accepted for an oral presentation! Less than 18% of abstracts are selected for oral presentations.
Amin paper extended to 2023 ICSE
Congratulations to Amin on getting an extension of his paper investigating the robustness of federated learning to the 2023 ICSE!
AI2Lab members receive Upper Bound travel bursaries
Congratulations to all the AI2Lab members that received the Upper Bound travel bursary!
Souza, Deshpande and Bento awarded NSERC Alliance grant
Congratulations to Drs. Souza, Deshpande, and Bento on being awarded an NSERC Alliance – Alberta Innovates Advance stream II grant!
Pedro receives University of Calgary Eyes High Postdoctoral Fellowship
Congratulations to Pedro on receiving the University of Calgary Eyes High Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Dr. Bento awarded NSERC Alliance grant
Congratulations to Dr. Bento on being awarded an NSERC Alliance – Alberta Innovates Advance stream I grant!
Parisa successfully completes ESE master’s defence
Congratulations to Parisa on her successful ESE master's defense!
Hanna and Rodrigo challenge proposal accepted at ISBI 2023
Congratulations to Hanna and Rodrigo on having a challenge proposal accepted at the 2023 ISBI!
Abbas selected for AltaML winter internship cohort
Congratulations to Abbas on being selected for the AltaML winter internship cohort!
Youssef successfully completes BME master’s defence
Congratulations to Youssef on his successful BME master's defense!
Rodrigo receives MITACS Business Strategy Internship
Congratulations to Rodrigo on receiving a MITACS Business Strategy Internship!
Javier Guerra receives 4th best paper at SIPAIM
Congratulations to Javier Guerra, supervised by Dr. Frayne and co-supervised by Dr. Bento, on receiving the 4th best paper at the SIPAIM conference!
Amin paper accepted at Empirical Software Engineering
Congratulations to Amin! His paper evaluating the robustness of federated learning has been accepted at Empirical Software Engineering!
Alexandre completes CS PhD candidacy exam
Congratulations to Alexandre on his successful CS PhD candidacy exam!
Abbas, Mahsa and Rodrigo win AGES scholarships
Congratulations to Abbas, Mahsa, and Rodrigo for winning Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarships!
Domain adaptation benchmark accepted at Frontiers in Neuroscience
Congratulations to Parisa and our collaborators. Our domain adaptation benchmark paper was accepted at Frontiers in Neuroscience!
Youssef and Neha represent AI2Lab at Deep Learning for Medical Imaging School
Youssef and Neha are representing our lab at the Deep Learning for Medical Imaging School!
Neha receives Grace Hopper celebration scholarship
Congratulations to Neha for receiving the Grace Hopper celebration scholarship!
MRI reconstruction challenge paper accepted at Frontiers in Neuroscience
Congratulations to Youssef and our collaborators. Our MRI reconstruction challenge paper was accepted at Frontiers in Neuroscience!
Hanna and Natalia receive BRAIN CREATE scholarships
Congratulations to Hanna and Natalia for being awarded BRAIN CREATE scholarships!
Dr. Bento joins AI2Lab
Welcome to Dr. Bento, the newest faculty member to join our lab. She runs an NSERC-funded program on data harmonization, bias and fairness in AI.
Alexandre RGB-D datasets survey accepted at CVIU
Congratulations to Alexandre! His RGB-D datasets survey was accepted at CVIU.
Dr. Souza receives Departmental Early Research Excellence Award
Congratulations to Dr. Souza on receiving the Departmental Early Research Excellence award from the Electrical and Software Engineering Department of the Schulich School of Engineering.
AI2Lab trainees attend AI Week
A large contingent of our trainees attended AI Week. It was a great opportunity to connect with AI researchers.
Neha receives third best poster at UCalgary Women in Data Science
Congratulations to Neha for receiving the 3rd best poster award at the UCalgary Women in Data Science!
Dr. Souza receives NVIDIA Academic Hardware Grant
Congratulations to Dr. Souza for being awarded the NVIDIA Academic Hardware Grant Program!
Alexandre RGB-D survey trends on DeepAI
Congratulations to Alexandre! His RGB-D datasets survey is trending on the DeepAI platform.
Youssef master’s work accepted at ISBI 2022
Congratulations to Youssef! His master's work was accepted for publication at the 2022 ISBI.
Two exchange students approved for Mitacs Globalink Research Internship
Our lab had two exchange students approved for the Mitacs Globalink Research Internship. The fully-funded students joined our lab in May 2022.
Collaborator Dr. Nikita Nogovitsyn publishes Schizophrenia Research paper
Congratulations to our collaborator Dr. Nikita Nogovitsyn on his Schizophrenia Research paper!
Neha receives Manipal University Jaipur gold medal
Congratulations to Neha! She received the gold medal for achieving the highest GPA in her Computer Science class at Manipal University Jaipur!
AI2Lab open science initiative featured by Hotchkiss Brain Institute
Our lab open science initiative was featured by the Hotchkiss Brain Institute in University of Calgary news!
Neha receives Alberta Innovates Graduate Student Scholarship
Congratulations to Neha on getting the 2021 Alberta Innovates Graduate Student Scholarship!
Wallace paper accepted at MRM
Congratulations to Wallace from the VIL lab. His paper on extraction of a vascular function for a fully automated dynamic contrast-enhanced MR brain image processing pipeline was accepted at MRM.
Rodrigo Berto and Neha Gianchandani receive BRAIN CREATE scholarships
Congratulations to Rodrigo Berto and Neha Gianchandani on getting BRAIN CREATE scholarships!
Mike Lasby receives Elizabeth Cannon scholarship
Congratulations to Mike Lasby on getting the Elizabeth Cannon scholarship on entrepreneurial thinking!
Youssef Beauferris receives CONP scholar award
Congratulations to Youssef Beauferris on getting the CONP scholar award!
Youssef Beauferris receives Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship
Congratulations to Youssef Beauferris on getting the Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarships award!
Dr. Souza receives HBI Early/Mid-Career Research Support Fund
Congratulations to Dr. Souza on receiving the HBI Early/Mid-Career (E/MC) Research Support Fund!
Dr. Souza receives first NSERC Discovery Grant
Congratulations to Dr. Souza on getting his first NSERC Discovery Grant!
Lucas on receives NSERC USRA award
Congratulations to Lucas on getting an NSERC USRA award! We are happy to have Lucas on our team this summer!
Harshal Patel and Maheen Hossain receive Alberta Innovates Summer Research Studentships
Congratulations to Harshal Patel and Maheen Hossain on getting the Alberta Innovates Summer Research Studentship! Welcome to our team this summer!
Dr. Ospel, Bento, Goyal and Souza awarded RSNA grant
Congratulations to Dr. Ospel (PI) and Drs. Bento, Goyal, and Souza (co-PIs) on being awarded an RSNA Research Fellow Grant!