Leadership & Professional Service

Leadership across scientific communities, professional organizations, major international conferences, standards efforts, editorial boards, and global initiatives in healthcare AI, computer vision, and trustworthy artificial intelligence.

MICCAI 2023
General Chair
CVPR 2008
Program Chair
6
Plenary Lectures
18
Keynote Addresses
25+
Invited Talks
Global
Community Leadership

Leadership Highlights

General Chair of MICCAI 2023, the premier international conference in Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention.

Program Chair of IEEE CVPR 2008, one of the world's leading conferences in computer vision and artificial intelligence.

Co-Founder of the Digital Twin for Health Society, advancing collaboration among academia, healthcare institutions, industry, and government to accelerate the adoption of digital twin technologies in medicine.

Served on governing boards, fellow selection committees, advisory councils, editorial boards, and review panels across MICCAI, AIMBE, IEEE, ABAIM, ABAIH, NIH, NSF, and major scientific journals.

Conference Leadership

General Chair

  • MICCAI 2023 (2,400+ attendees)
  • AI for Biomedical Imaging Across Scales Symposium 2020
  • IEEE HISB 2011
  • IEEE MMBIA at CVPR (2008–2010)

Program Chair

  • IEEE CVPR 2008
  • IEEE ISBI 2022 (Program Co-Chair)
  • MICCAI Clinical Decision Support Workshop (2009–2024)
  • IJCAI Workshop on Multimodal Information Retrieval
  • ICCV Workshop on Content-Based Retrieval

Area Chair

  • MICCAI (2015–2020)
  • IEEE ISBI (2013–2020)
  • ACM Multimedia
  • Asian Conference on Computer Vision

Boards, Governance & Advisory Service

  • Board Member, MICCAI (2022–2025)
  • Board Member, American Board for AI in Medicine (2020–2025)
  • Board Member, American Board of AI in Healthcare (2025–Present)
  • College of Fellows, AIMBE
  • Chair, AIMBE Fellow Selection Committee
  • Member, IEEE Fellow Evaluation Committee
  • Chair, MICCAI Clinical Workgroup Committee
  • Member, NSF and NIH Review Panels

Digital Twin for Health Society

Co-Founder of the Digital Twin for Health Society, a global initiative bringing together researchers, clinicians, healthcare systems, technology companies, and policy leaders to advance digital twin technologies for healthcare and precision medicine.

The Society promotes research collaboration, educational programs, standards development, and responsible adoption of digital twin technologies across healthcare ecosystems.

Editorial Leadership

Editorial and guest editorial service for leading journals in medical imaging, machine learning, healthcare AI, computer vision, and biomedical engineering.

  • Medical Image Analysis
  • IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
  • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (Guest Editor)
  • Diagnostics
  • Intelligence-Based Medicine
  • Computers in Biology and Medicine
  • Machine Learning and AI in Diagnostics

Standards & Community Impact

Contributed to standards and benchmark initiatives that influenced multimedia retrieval, medical informatics, healthcare interoperability, and evaluation methodologies.

  • MPEG-7 and MPEG-21 multimedia standards
  • TREC and NIST multimedia retrieval benchmarks
  • HL7 and FHIR healthcare interoperability initiatives

Global Thought Leadership

Delivered 6 plenary lectures, 18 keynote addresses, 25 invited talks, and numerous panel discussions across healthcare AI, computer vision, machine learning, multimodal AI, and biomedical engineering.

Invited speaker at conferences and organizations including SPIE Medical Imaging, ACM WWW, ACM KDD, IEEE BioCAS, Women in Data Science, NeurIPS workshops, RSNA, and major universities and research institutions worldwide.

Selected Plenary & Keynote Lectures

Recent Distinguished Lectures

  • Indian Institute of Science (2026)
  • Osmania University Endowment Lecture (2024)
  • ICETE 2023 Plenary Lecture
  • SPIE Medical Imaging Plenary (2015)

Recent Keynotes

  • IEEE BioCAS 2025
  • NeurIPS GenAI for Health Workshop 2024
  • Women in Data Science 2024
  • MICCAI GRAIL Workshop 2024
  • DICTA 2024

Industry & Public Engagement

Led the “Eyes of Watson” showcase at RSNA, engaging thousands of radiologists and generating more than 260 million earned media impressions globally.

Frequent participant in discussions on trustworthy AI, healthcare innovation, agentic AI, clinical foundation models, digital twins, and the future of intelligent healthcare systems.