I consider service an essential component of academic life, as living in an ivory tower does not make much sense to me. I maintain a close engagement with academic, professional, and public communities via several roles that are detailed below.
Service to University of Victoria - 2019-ongoing: Co-Champion (representing UVic Engineering) for the 30 by 30 Initiative of Enguineers Canada
- 2019-ongoing: member of the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusivity Committee of the Faculty of Engineering
- 2018-ongoing: Graduate Advisor for the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
- 2014-2016: elected member of the Senate of the University of Victoria
- 2011-2016: Graduate Advisor for Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs (INTD) at UVic. For any INTD-related inquiries, please contact me at intdadv@uvic.ca.
- 2012-2016: elected member of the ECE committee for Strategic Planning
- 2010-2012:
elected member of the Faculty Advisory Committee (Promotion and Tenure)
(representative of the ECE Department)
- 2009-2010:
elected member of the Search Committee for the Vice-president Academic
(representative of the Faculty of Engineering)
Service to Engineers Canada - November 2017: program visitor for Computer Engineering for accreditation visit at the University of Guelph
- November 2012: program visitor for Computer Engineering for accreditation visit at the University of Manitoba
- November 2014: program visitor for Electrical and Computer Engineering for accreditation visit at Universite de Trois-Rivieres (Quebec)
Service to IEEE Canada - 2017-2019 Chair, Victoria Section
Service to the Canadian and international academic community - 2018-ongoing: 1st Vice-President of the International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR).
- 2014-2018: Secretary (elected member of the executive committee) of the International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR).
- 2009-2012: Newsletter Editor for the International Association of Pattern
Recognition (IAPR).
- Event Organization
- 2018: 3rd ICPR Workshop on Computer Vision for Analysis of Underwater Imagery (CVAUI 2018), Aug. 2018, Beijing, China (with Maia Hoeberechts)
- 2016: 2nd ICPR Workshop on Computer Vision for Analysis of Underwater Imagery (CVAUI 2016), Dec. 2016, Cancun, Mexico (with Maia Hoeberechts)
- 2014: 1st ICPR Workshop on Computer Vision for Analysis of Underwater Imagery (CVAUI 2014), Aug. 2016, Stockholm, Sweden (with Maia Hoeberechts)
- Grant Proposal Reviewer
- 2019-2020: member of the national NSERC Committee - Chairs for Women in Science and Engineering
- 2009, 2012, 2015, 2020: NATEQ (FQRNT) – International francophone committee for team grants evaluation
- 2008: Post-Doctoral Fellowships (Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research)
- 2008: Alberta Ingenuity New Faculty Award program
- 2005-ongoing NSERC Discovery Grants
- 2007: NSERC Idea to Innovation Program
- 2007: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)
- 2010: National Science Foundation Merit Review
- Journal Reviewer (Pattern Recognition, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Computer Vision Image Understanding , EURASIP Journal on Signal Processing, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine)
- Conference Reviewer (ISVC 2019; CRV 2018,2019; ECCV 2020)
Invited Academic and Public Talks - Computer Vision for Underwater Environmental Monitoring, Monterey Bay Research Acquarium, Monterey, United States, April 2019.
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Advancing Academic Women in Science and
Engineering, University of Uppsala, Sweden, May 2017.
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Tutorial on State of the Art in Automated Analysis
of Underwater Imagery (with M. Hoeberechts), IEEE Oceans, Monterey, United
States, Sept. 2016.
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Computer Vision for Environmental Monitoring, Invited Talk, Canadian Conference for Computer and Robot Vision (CRV),
Victoria, Canada, June 2016.
- Image Analysis for Environmental Monitoring (with
M. Hoeberechts). Discover UVic (outreach activity for high school students and
their parents), University of Victoria, Nov. 2015.
- Analyse
d’images de documents numeriques”, Invited talk at Laboratoire de Vision et
Systemes Numeriques, Universite Laval (sponsored by Prof. D. Laurendeau),
Quebec City, May 2014.
- Medical Imaging Research at UVic: an overview of recent results, Invited talk at the University of Utrecht (Netherlands) (sponsored by Prof. Max Viergever), Utrecht, April 2012.
- Artificial Intelligence: Friend or Foe? Café Scientifique, public presentation sponsored by the Center on Aging at UVic, Victoria, January 2012.
- Towards Building Computer that See, Invited Presentation at Mount Douglas High-School, Victoria, October 2011.
- Exploring New Horizons for Computer Vision, Invited Seminar at the University of Texas at Austin, sponsored by Prof. J.K. Aggarwal, Austin, December 2010.
- Computer Vision Research at the UVic, Invited Seminar at SAP Vancouver, Dec. 2009.
- New Horizons for Computer Vision, Invited Seminar at the School of Engineering Science, Simon Fraser University, (sponsored by Prof. Lesley Shannon), Vancouver, November 2009.
- Successful Industrial Partnerships, panel member, Creating Connections 2009, (sponsored by the NSERC Chair for Women in Science and Engineering for BC), Maple Ridge, BC, September 2009.
- Computer Vision-Based Human Motion Analysis with Applications to Health Care, Invited seminar at the University of Northern British Columbia, (sponsored by Prof. L. Chen), April 2008.
- Computer Vision: Towards Building Computers that See, Invited Talk at the Brentwood College, UVic Speaker’s Bureau Series, Victoria, October 2008.
- Analyse de Mouvement Humain dans le Contexte des Applications Biomedicales, Invited seminar at Laval University (sponsored by Prof. D. Laurendeau), Quebec City, September 2008.
- Computer Vision-Based Human Motion Analysis with Applications to Health Care. Invited seminar at UBC (sponsored by Prof. E. A. Croft), Vancouver, July 2008.
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