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.