Updates
Rising Stars 2020
November 2020
I was nominated as one of the rising stars. Rising stars, organized by the Berkeley EECS, is an academic career workshop for female candidates in ECE department pursuing academia.
Featured in UBC ECE Webpage
June 2020
I was featured in the UBC ECE webpage.
Microsoft Disseration Award
June 2020
I was announced a recipient of the 2020 Microsoft Disseration Award. The $25,000 grant would support in the completion of my dissertation research.
BMEG 350 Guest lecture
March 2020
I was a guest lecturer for BMEG 350 (Human Structure/Function from Cells to Systems) course at UBC. I talked about the fundamental of quantitative ultrasound and its application for tissue characterization.
panel discussion on enterpreneurship and patenting
March 2020
I organized and moderated a panel discussion on entrepreneurship and patenting titled "I have a great idea: what next?" on February 19, 2020 on behalf of UBC ECEGSA. This panel discussion featured four immensely resourceful speakers: Francis Steiner (Director of Hatch), Andrea Lloyd (Associate Director at entrepreneurship@UBC), Dr. Mirza Saquib us Sarwar (UBC graduate with extensive experience with patenting) and Dr. Carlos Gerado (Postdoctoral researcher, inventor of $100 ultrasound transducer).
5th Deep Learning School
December 2019
I received a scholarship to attend the 5th Deep Learning School, Vancouver. It was a 5-day training consisting of lectures followed by hands-on tutorials on deep learning techniques from December 2 to 6, 2019 organized by IVADO, Mila and UBC Data Science Institute.
ELEC 47l Guest lecture
November 2019
I was invited as a guest lecturer for ELEC 471 (Medical Imaging) course at UBC.
Oral presentation at MLMIR 2019
October 2019
I attended and presented our work on PredictUS, a deep learning method for estimation of quantitative ultrasound parameters at Machine Learning for Medical Image Reconstruction (MLMIR) 2019 on October 17, 2019. The paper can be found here.
Poster presentation at MICCAI 2019
October 2019
I attended and presented our work on SWTV-ACE, a spatially weighted regularization method for attenuation coefficient estimation at 22nd International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2019 at Shenzen, China. The paper can be found here.
Oral presentation at IEEE IUS 2019
October 2019
I attended and presented the application of SWTV-ACE for placenta tissue characterization at the IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium 2019 at Glasgow, UK. The paper can be found here.
IEEE IUS Student travel grant
August 2019
I received IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS) Student Travel Grant to partially cover the cost of registration and travel to the conference.
Secretary and the GSS counsellor at ECEGSS
April 2019
I was elected as the Secretary and the GSS counsellor at UBC ECEGSA for 2019-2020 academic year.
Schlumberger Foundation 2019-2020 Faculty for the Future Fellowship
March 2019
I was nominated as one of the Schlumberger Foundation 2019-2020 Faculty for the Future Fellows among a total of 525 applicants.
Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship 2019 Finalist
November 2018
I was nominated as one of the 20 finalists for Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship 2019. I got the opportunity to attend an interview with Microsoft researchers and present a poster at Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond, Washington on December 10, 2018.
Session Co-chair at EMBC 2018
July 2018
I co-chaired the Ultrasound Imaging - Elastography (Theme 2) session at EMBC 2018.