Sep, 2022: Invited to IPAM Workshop on "Reconstructing Network Dynamics from Data: Applications to Neuroscience and Beyond". Presented poster and lightning talk on "A robust Reeb graph model of white matter fibers".
Aug, 2022: Excited to mentor and teach CSW8 course on "Introduction to Computer Science" at UCSB.
Jul, 2022: Served as a reviewer for 1st MICCAI Workshop on Medical Optical Imaging and Virtual Microscopy Image Analysis (MOVI).
Jul, 2022: Our manuscript on "Automatic Classification and Neurotransmitter Prediction of Synapses in Electron Microscopy" was accepted for publication in Biological Imaging.
Jul, 2022: Awarded travel grant to participate at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics for the workshop on “Reconstructing Network Dynamics from Data: Applications to Neuroscience and Beyond” to be held from August 29 – September 2, 2022 at IPAM.
Jul, 2022: Submitted our grant proposal with Raytheon Technologies Research Center for IARPA HAYSTAC to model normal behavior of human trajectories in cities and perform anomaly detection on trajectories.
Jun, 2022: Mentoring 4 high-school young researchers in the Research Mentorship Program at UCSB. Project #37 – Automated segmentation of brain CT scans for the diagnosis of Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus (NPH): Kathy Li, Sanjay Adhikesaven; Project #38 – Robust methods for distinguishing COVID-19 from other forms of viral pneumonia using chest CT scans: Claire Chen, Zhaozhong (Alex) Wang.
Jun, 2022: Organized the MICCAI Student Board webinar on "Medical Sieve Grand Challenge: A Turing Test for Chest Radiology AI" by Dr. Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood, IBM Almaden Research Center.
Jun, 2022: Submitted our manuscript on "Deep Learning Enabled Time-Lapse 3D Cell Analysis" to Nature Scientific Reports.
May, 2022: Served as a reviewer for the annual MICCAI conference, to be held in Singapore, Sept 18 - 22, 2022.
Mar, 2022: Submitted the paper "A robust Reeb graph model of white matter fibers with application to Alzheimer's disease progression" in MICCAI 2022.
Feb, 2022: Organized MSB webinar on "Improving your Writing: Strategies for Revising, Proofing, and Using Feedback" for 100 attendees.
Dec, 2021: Selected as MICCAI Student Board Officer. Looking forward to organizing exciting webinars throughout the year.
Dec, 2021: Presented on "Topological characterizations of neuronal fibers and its implicationsin comparing brain connectomes" at WiML workshop at NeurIPS.
Nov, 2021: Prepared the proposal on uncovering the links between behavior and neural circuitry for NIH grant submission.
Nov, 2021: Presented my research thesis proposal on "Topological characterizations of neuronal fibers and its implications in comparing brain connectomes" for the PhD Candidacy Exam. PhD Committee: Prof. B.S. Manjunath (chair), Prof. Nina Miolane, Prof. Scott Grafton, and Prof. Shiv Chandrasekaran.
Oct, 2021: Extended abstract on "Topological characterizations of neuronal fibers and its implicationsin comparing brain connectomes" got accepted in Women in Machine Learning workshop at Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2021)
Jul, 2021: TAing two courses 1) Human-Computer Interaction – Perception and Correlation Development in Virtual Reality and 2) Machine Intelligence – An Introduction to Optimization and Machine Learning
Jun, 2021: My paper, "A computational geometry approach for modeling neuronal fiber pathways" got accepted and will appear in MICCAI 2021 conference.
Apr, 2021: Attending International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 2021 and presenting poster on "Semi supervised segmentation and graph-based tracking of 3D nuclei in time-lapse microscopy".
Mar, 2021: Submitted our work on "A computational geometry approach formodeling neuronal fiber pathways" in MICCAI 2021, the 24th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention.
Feb, 2021: Honored with Master of Science degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Jan, 2021: Mentoring two female undergraduate students under Women in STEM Mentorship Program.
Jan, 2021: Our paper, "Semi supervised segmentation and graph-based tracking of 3D nuclei in time-lapse microscopy." got accepted and will appear in ISBI 2021 Conference.
Oct, 2020: Will be attending MICCAI 2020, the 23rd International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention.
Aug, 2020: Secured a grant for $10,000 from Cottage Hospital Research Grant for developing AI algorithm distinguishing COVID-19 from other viral Pneumonias.
Jun, 2020: Secured a grant for $10,000 from UCSB VCR seed grant for COVID-19 detection using AI.
Apr, 2020: Granted a President's Work Study Award in the amount of $1,500 for the 2019-2020 academic year.
Apr, 2020: Glab to secure second rank in cell segmentation benchmark and third rank in cell tracking benchmark in CTC Challenge, ISBI, 2020.
Apr, 2020: Attending International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 2020 and present talk on segmentation and tracking algorithm for C.elegans.
Jan, 2020: Our paper got published! "Improving Patch-Based Convolutional Neural Networks for MRI Brain Tumor Segmentation by Leveraging Location Information", by Po-Yu Kao, Shailja Shailja, Jiaxiang Jiang, Angela Zhang, Amil Khan, Jefferson W. Chen, B.S. Manjunath, published in Frontiers in Neuroscience, section Brain Imaging Methods.
Oct, 2019: Passed the PhD screening examination from ECE Department, UCSB.
Fall, 2019: Taking course on Matrix Algebra and Probability and Stochastic Processes.
Aug, 2019: Selected for teaching assistant position of ECE 178 (Digital Image Processing).
Jun, 2019: Starting my research internship at Mayachitra Inc., Santa Barbara.
Feb, 2019: Granted a President's Work Study Award in the amount of $3,300 for the 2019-2020 academic year.
Feb, 2019: Selected to be a TA for CS 130B (Data Structure and Algorithms).
Jan, 2019: Selected to be a TA for CS 170 (Operating Systems).
Dec, 2018: Selected as a finalist in the 2018-2019 Big Ideas Contest in the Connected Communities category!
Sept, 2018: Joining University of California, Santa Barbara starting Fall, 2018.