UNIQUE Conference Travel Awards
Summer 2024 competition
Program for undergraduate, MSc, Ph.D. students and postdoctoral fellow
[Competition closed]
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UNIQUE offers a limited number of conference travel grants to its students who will be presenting a paper (oral or poster) at a national or international scientific meeting. A maximum amount of $1,000 is provided to each recipient to cover expenses related to travel, accommodation and registration fees.
List of awardees
Summer 2023 Competition
Sandrine Bédard, Génie biomédical, Polytechnique Montréal
Contrast-agnostic segmentation of the spinal cord using deep learning
2023 ISMRM & ISMRT Annual Meeting & Exhibition, Toronto, Canada, du 3 au 8 juin 2023
Superviseur: Julien Cohen-Adad
Renaud Bernatchez, Département de biochimie, de microbiologie et de bio-informatique, Université Laval
Crowdsourcing a rich dataset for the development of new neuroscience image analysis tools
International Conference On Nanoscopy, Jena, Germany, du 4 au 6 septembre 2023
Superviseur.e.s: Flavie Lavoie-Cardinal & Audrey Durand
(Grant declined by the student)
Shawn Manuel, Département de psychiatrie et d’addictologie, Université de Montréal
Quantifying High Level Representations Using Verbal Reports and Natural Language Processing
Computational Psychiatry Conference, Dublin, Ireland, du 6 au 8 juillet 2023
Superviseur: Vincent Taschereau-Dumouchel
Charlotte Maschke, Integrated Program in Neuroscience, McGill University
Outcome prediction after cardiac arrest using machine learning and network dynamics of resting state eeg
Computing in Cardiology 2023, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, du 1er au 4 octobre 2023
Superviseur.e: Stefanie Blain-Moraes & Karim Jerbi
Filip Milisav, Integrated Program in Neuroscience, McGill University
Hierarchical modularity optimizes memory capacity near criticality in echo state networks
NetSci 2023 (International School and Conference on Network Science), Vienna, Austria, du 10 au 14 juillet 2023
Superviseur: Bratislav Misic
Quentin Moreau, Département de psychiatrie et d’addictologie, Université de Montréal
Transcranial random-noise stimulation in human-machine social interactions
Joint Action Meeting (JAM), Budapest, Hungary, du 10 au 12 juillet 2023
Superviseur: Guillaume Dumas
Fall 2022/Winter 2023 Competition
Jonathan Cornford, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University
Exploring learning in neural networks with brain-inspired geometries
Neuroscience 2022, San Diego, USA, November 12-16, 2022
Supervisor: Richard Blake
Naga Karthik Enamundram, Institut de génie biomédical, Polytechnique Montréal
Segmentation of Multiple Sclerosis Lesions across Hospitals: Learn Continually or Train from Scratch?
Neural Information Processing Systems, New Orleans, USA, November 29-December, 2022
Supervisors: Julien Cohen Adad & Farida Cheriet
Daniel Levenstein, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University
A predictive learning model for autonomously generated replay in the hippocampus
Neuroscience 2022, San Diego, USA, November 12-16, 2022
Supervisors: Richard Blake & Adrien Peyrache
Sarthak Mittal, Département d’informatique et de recherche opérationnelle, Université de Montréal
Is a Modular Architecture Enough?
Neural Information Processing Systems, New Orleans, USA, November 28 – December 9, 2022
Supervisors: Guillaume Lajoie & Yoshua Bengio
Summer 2022 Competition
Frédéric Beaupré, Département de biochimie, de microbiologie et de bio-informatique, Université Laval
Detection and localization of synaptic anomalies using deep learning and super-resolution STED microscopy
Optics and Photonics in Medicine and Biology: Exploring the Role of Machine Learning in the Future of Biophotonics (Gordon Research Seminar), Lewiston, USA, July 9-10, 2022
Supervisors: Christian Gagné & Flavie Lavoie-Cardinal
Nikhil Bhagwat, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University
Assessment of brain-age prediction on longitudinal structural MR imaging data
Organization for Human Brain Mapping annual meeting (OHBM), Glasgow, Scotland, June 19-23, 2022
Supervisor: Jean-Baptiste Poline
Anthony Bilodeau, Département de biochimie, de microbiologie et de bio-informatique, Université Laval
Microscopy analysis neural network to solve detection, enumeration, and segmentation from image-level annotations
Optics and Photonics in Medicine and Biology: Exploring the Role of Machine Learning in the Future of Biophotonic (Gordon Research Seminar), Lewiston, USA, July 9-10, 2022
Supervisors: Flavie Lavoie-Cardinal & Audrey Durand
Catherine Bouchard, Département de génie électrique et de génie informatique, Université Laval
Generative Adversarial Network Assisted Super-Resolution Imaging
Optics and Photonics in Medicine and Biology: Exploring the Role of Machine Learning in the Future of Biophotonic (Gordon Research Seminar), Lewiston, USA, July 9-10, 2022
Supervisors: Christian Gagné & Flavie Lavoie-Cardinal
(Funding declined by the awardee)
Joshua Durso-Finley, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University
Personalized Prediction of Future Lesion Activity and Treatment Effect in Multiple Sclerosis from Baseline MRI
Medical Imaging with Deep Learning (MIDL), Zurich, Switzerland, July 6-8, 2022
Supervisor: Tal Arbel
Naga Karthik Enamundram, Génie biomédical, Polytechnique Montréal
Automatic segmentation of hyperintense lesions in acute spinal cord injury from T2-weighted MRI scans
Quebec Bio-Imaging Network Scientific Day 2022, Sherbrooke, Canada, June 2, 2022
Supervisor: Julien Cohen-Adad
Ziqi Hao, Medicine, McGill University
Deep Learning for Brain Extraction from a Small and Diverse Dataset of Primate MRI
Organization for Human Brain Mapping annual meeting (OHBM), Glasgow, Scotland, June 19-23, 2022
Supervisor: Amir Shmuel
Dongyan Lin, Integrated Program in Neuroscience, McGill University
Heterogeneous Representations of Variables in Task-Optimized DRL Agents Depend on Task-Relevance
The 5th Multidisciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making (RLDM2022), Providence, RI, USA, June 8-11, 2022
Supervisor: Blake Richards
Laura Suarez, Neurology and neurosurgery, McGill University
Conn2res: a toolbox for connectome-based reservoir computing
Organization for Human Brain Mapping annual meeting (OHBM), Glasgow, Scotland, June 19-23, 2022
Supervisors: Bratislav Misic & Guillaume Lajoie
Winter 2020 Competition
Anthony G.X. Chen, Computer Science, McGill University
From Neuroscience to Artificially Intelligent Systems (NAISys) Conference. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. NY, USA. March 24-28, 2020.
Supervisors: Blake Richards & Joelle Pineau
(Funding declined by the awardee)
Raymond Chua, Computer Science, McGill University
From Neuroscience to Artificially Intelligent Systems (NAISys) Conference, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. NY, USA. March 24-28, 2020.
Supervisors: Doina Precup & Blake Richards
(Funding declined by the awardee)
Victor Geadah, Département de Mathématiques et de statistique, Université de Montréal
Computational and Systems Neuroscience (Cosyne) 2020. Denver, CO, USA. February 27- March 1, 2020,
Supervisor: Guillaume Lajoie
(Funding declined by the awardee)
Samuel Laferriere Cyr, Département d'informatique et de recherche opérationnelle, Université de Montréal
From Neuroscience to Artificially Intelligent Systems (NAISys), Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. NY, USA. March 24-28, 2020.
Supervisors: Guillaume Lajoie et Blake Richards
(Funding declined by the awardee)
Ardavan Salehi Nobandegani, Psychology, McGill University
34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2020). NY, USA. February 7-12, 2020.
Supervisor: Thomas R. Shultz
Olivier Vincent, Institut de génie biomédical, Polytechnique Montréal
7th Spinal Cord MRI Workshop, University College London. London, United Kingdom. January 20-21, 2020.
Supervisors: Julien Cohen-Adad & Sarah Lippé