MATH+ML+X Lab Aviles-Rivero Lab

Event

Doctoral Examination & Viva Committees

★ — Siyuan Yan (Monash University, Australia)
PhD Thesis: Towards Real-World Generalization in Medical AI: From Task-Specific Models to Foundation Models
Date: January, 2026.
★ — Narcis Sayols Baixeras (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya–BarcelonaTech, Spain)
PhD Thesis: Cognitive Robot Control Strategies for Complex Surgical Environments
Viva Date: June 4th, 2024.
Committee Members: Angelica Aviles-Rivero (University of Cambridge), Diego Dall’Alba (University of Verona) & Manel Frigola (UPC).
★ — Geoff French (University of East Anglia, UK)
PhD Thesis: Data efficient deep learning for automated visual environment monitoring
Viva Date: January 26th, 2024.
Committee Members: Angelica Aviles-Rivero (University of Cambridge) & Christian Rupprecht (University of Oxford).

Scientific Committees and Organisation

Legend
[C] – Conference [T]-Tutorial [W]-Workshop [M]-Minisymposia [S]-Seminars [H]– Hackathon

— Organiser, Geometric Deep Learning Workshop
University of Cambridge, June 10–12, 2024.
— Organiser, The British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC)
Aberdeen, 2023.
— Organiser, The British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC)
London, 2022.
— Organiser, Geometric Deep Learning in Medical Image Analysis (GeoMedIA)
MICCAI, Singapore, 2022.
— Organiser, Geometric Deep Learning in Medical Image Analysis (GeoMedIA)
Workshop, Amsterdam, 2022.
— Program Committee, CVAMD 2021 @ ICCV, October 2021.
— Group Project Leader, WiSH Workshop, @BIRS @CMO, June 2021.
— Program Committee, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-21), February 2021.
— Poster Judge, SIAM CSE, March 2021.
— Scientific Committee, GRaphs in biomedicAl Image anaLysis (GRAIL2020)
MICCAI 2020 Satellite Event, Lima, Peru.
— Program Committee, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-20)
February 7–12, 2020, New York, NY, USA.
— PC Member, ipaMAC2019, ACPR ’19 (Asian Conference on Pattern Recognition)
November 26–29, 2019, Auckland, New Zealand.

Editorial / Guest Editor

— Guest Editor, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (IEEE TBME)
Special Issue: ISBI 2026.
— Guest Editor, Pattern Recognition
Special Issue: Graph Foundation Model for Medical Image Analysis, 2025.
— Guest Editor, International Journal of Computer Vision
Special Issue: BMVC 2022.
— Guest Editor, Deep Learning in Remote Sensing Application, Remote Sensing.