See below for a great opportunity for grad students and postdocs
Cheers Bruce
From: Yao, Jingting,PHD, MS JYAO0@mgh.harvard.edu Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2024 10:36 PM To: Fischl, Bruce R.,PHD BFISCHL@mgh.harvard.edu Cc: Vanderkouwe, Andre,PHD AVANDERKOUWE@mgh.harvard.edu; donzhang@ece.ubc.ca; Udunna Anazodo, Dr udunna.anazodo@mcgill.ca; craymon8@uwo.ca Subject: Call for Program Coordinators (due March 27) -- SPARK Academy in Deep Learning and Medical Imaging
Dear Bruce,
Could you please share the fantastic opportunity detailed below with experienced machine learning PhD students and Postdoc fellows within your network? This initiative offers them the chance to contribute to the training of colleagues in Africa and Asia, providing a valuable opportunity for collaboration and knowledge exchange. Thank you for your assistance!
Best, Jingting
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Jingting "Becky" Yao (she/her/hers) Postdoctoral Research Fellow Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging Department of Radiology Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School
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Call for Volunteers
Dear colleagues,
The Sprint AI Training for African Medical Imaging Knowledge Translation (SPARK)https://c0ycp.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/cl/f/Jd37qz89jOHnq_3HUB5tkoTCcab5O67lIhiXIhb3mwXTQ4YXU734oc0A6puTNKhqZWp4bstpU69iE2EE49jHVKMuD1W3g02cKW6NWzZtsmTs3IxmoAywQDY12DSwk3fo3K6rrS9upBbKoMwV6CvPy45JiuCbq67htA3s9ZlclOq9IIwbvPfuWnJzmbaTdA Academy is designed to train a new generation of African artificial intelligence (AI) experts in medical imaging who can train others.
In 2023, we ran the first SPARK Academy in collaboration with McMedHackshttps://c0ycp.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/cl/f/_sPZfOBluW5UhuGFLmP9DwXX91Wks-rg1CePLPPLsM_HPDbKz0l-LTbjB3YQYJ_PbJZ0RSasNuBRI3ev62eCmUBgbM5pNhh1fYGkK99VROtGAJdrjkgAXsbq5BcgIEHZxPT7OIPtvidmF9zka3esHoZYp-Fl0man1f1j_nsqoxTzbjua and endorsed by the Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Interventions (MICCAI) Societyhttps://c0ycp.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/cl/f/l2aIxjJqtGGGQniT_trZMZ0mSo4uYqK6azvi04Cacgu3jBYMkljXwfQmdXw7cIhOee8nq-Jo_uLYMo9p4Gz5Rp0xbUxBujXfbM1rV_srvAlEDWsDhrCkB2tW5lgNu3Tpyhc4in293EX6K_8XcpPObL2pfHtxUHiNKH-yFGMBxq_bOEw. We trained 70 researchers and clinicians from 15 countries, including 3 South East Asian countries. This first cohort developed 10 brain tumor segmentation models, 8 of which were ranked in the 2023 MICCAI brain tumor segmentation challenge competition, and 1 method was ranked in the top 2https://c0ycp.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/cl/f/Xa5kNSP96QF8MjKIQ-3cus2O4abCb8XAuRFT83FxV5_4qAY271wCbVKivydn6FX8SdPUi2Qfb_eTlLX5PdjOyDRdMtils_IePJUhL1BpnE13AUn5q9Tuv0ich6AlRyiDipM8QLfrs5ktYQVcSm0BZrVbi-gTT_tQ1QqDlGt-iBxNtdkQXDCawUNpMFi7OHo. For 2024 we have received more than thrice the number of applications from Africa and South Asia. The 2024 cohort will work together to produce state-of-the-art AI methods for the 2024 MICCAI BraTShttps://c0ycp.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/cl/f/4eZTrQjPRVT2KYD849Rr9SfMzS1oiCNF4CyKSgZ3PkR_8kjZn5Q-yHHYpvAnvoaXooA7EbtX3-uenq5n7S85QDjairXip7l-aVIyWv3EejvS7wGkj33TvDdYBjO9td9rwjpj7ukzuK4BiMczC3xS8rSSrnFZTvxlP5F-iQnK6kpdxOOVJHqG8V1m Challenge, with top-ranked methods eligible for prizes.
The purpose of this call is to invite passionate graduate students (MSc & PhD) and post-doctoral fellows with expertise in deep learning and medical imaging to join our team as volunteer Program Coordinators. This opportunity will provide graduate students with experiential peer-to-peer learning and leadership experience and help us prepare African teams to participate in grand challenges. With a time commitment of 4-6 hours per week, as a Program Coordinator you will be assigned to one team and will be required to:
* Supervise a team to mentor them with their BraTS model development. * Facilitate in-person Hackathons under the direction of the Program Chairs. * Assist instructors during tutorial sessions, hackathons, and workshops. * Provide additional support and guidance to participants, especially during hands-on activities. * Help address technical questions and troubleshoot issues encountered by the team. * Grade assignments (no more than 4 assignments and once during the entire Academy). * Work with the team to draft their MICCAI conference paper, journal manuscripts, or presentations and serve as the senior author on conference papers and joint-senior author on journal papers.
Call Deadline: March 27th 2024.
Are you passionate about AI and medical imaging? Here's your chance to make a difference! Volunteer as a Program Coordinator for the 2024 SPARK Academy. Mentor, lead, and inspire Africa's future AI leaders.
Volunteer applications should be submitted by March 27th as a 1-2-page CV with their name, affiliation, email address, career stage (PhD student or Postdoc), deep learning experience (programming language knowledge/skills and previous or ongoing projects). Please send your CV to Confidence Raymond (craymon8@uwo.camailto:craymon8@uwo.ca) and copy Dong Zhang (donzhang@ece.ubc.camailto:donzhang@ece.ubc.ca) with the email subject titled "SPARK Academy Program Coordinator Application".
There is a 30-min Onboarding on March 29th.
Event Page for More Details: https://event.fourwaves.com/sparkhttps://c0ycp.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/cl/f/36kz1LxIUUyr0PFOQozLEm0wKhG6wo1zClkgJIFy2J8ARwck1CUoCINq6oHxhucSLHx1cWUMkF33lEevyv9oeOQTPHWlZjeGUhlxJuNkCYwncIZal6j-N2Ma2QAnCfAaZBUAjjfC_Eml2lTDJMY60WknWmL6R23pBrNGRd1TI4KH0HrDyN9ceje-54Gp63k3omeXCLz4
We look forward to receiving your applications! Please share this opportunity with your colleagues.
Best regards,
SPARK Academy (spark@mailab.iomailto:spark@mailab.io)
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