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DERI Seminar with Islem Rekik, Imperial College London

When: Thursday, May 25, 2023, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Where: Zoom

Speaker: Islem Rekik, Associate Professor at Imperial College London

Presented by Islem Rekik  who 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

Zoom link: https://qmul-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/81148100921

Talk title: "Generative GNNs using Connectional Brain Templates".

Abstract: "Network science has introduced new opportunities for understanding the brain as a complex system of interacting units in health and disease. Despite the rapidly growing interdisciplinary science of complex networks, it remains a challenge to identify the most representative and shared brain alterations caused by a specific disorder and even more so for the multimodal brain networks where each one is derived from a particular neuroimaging modality. This talk will showcase novel techniques leveraging the power of geometric deep learning to meet network neuroscience challenges by integrating a population of multimodal brain networks into a connectional brain template (CBT). We will also showcase a few applications of the CBT in training GNN models for brain graph super-resolution and registration —among others."

Bio: Islem Rekik 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 85 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) and the co-founder of the international RISE Network to Reinforce Inclusiveness & diverSity and Empower minority researchers in Low-Middle Income Countries (LMIC).

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