UNIQUE-Mitacs Globalink Research Awards

Outbound mobility - UNIQUE students going abroad

List of awardees

Anthony Bilodeau

PhD student, Département de biochimie, de microbiologie et de bio-informatique, Université Laval

Project title: Machine learning for automated image analysis of the extracellular matrix

UNIQUE supervisors: Flavie Lavoie-Cardinal & Christian Gagné, Université Laval

Supervisor at host university: Silvio Rizzoli, University Medical Center Göttingen, Germany

Samuel Laferriere

PhD student, Computer Science, Universite de Montreal

Project title: Discovery of latent dynamics underlying learning in a Brain-Computer Interface task

UNIQUE supervisors: Guillaume Lajoie, Université de Montréal & Blake Richards, McGill University

Supervisor at host university: Amy Orsborn, University of Washington, USA

Victor Oswald

PhD student, Neuroscience, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Montréal

Project title: Brain - body interaction: using machine learning to predict interoceptive cognition altered by meditation

UNIQUE supervisor: Karim Jerbi, Université de Montréal

Supervisor at host university: Nazareth Castellanos, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), Spain

Anne-Lise Saive

Post-doctoral fellow, Département de Psychologie, Université de Montréal

Project title: Decoding the neural dynamics of emotion-related human memory optimization using AI-informed multivariate techniques

UNIQUE supervisor: Karim Jerbi, Université de Montréal

Supervisor at host university: Bryan Strange, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

Thomas Thiery

PhD student, Psychologie, Université de Montréal

Project title: Decoding the neural correlates of dynamic decision-making in humans

UNIQUE supervisors: Karim Jerbi & Pierre Rainville, Université de Montréal

Supervisor at host university: Andrea Brovelli, Aix-Marseille University, France

Inbound mobility for foreign students

List of awardees

Xiaoyi Bao

Undergraduate student, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Project title: Generalization of deep learning tasks for medical imaging applications

UNIQUE Supervisor: Julien Cohen-Adad, Polytechnique Montréal

Supervisor at home university: Hualin Fu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Colin Bredenberg

PhD student, Neural Science, New York University, USA

Project title: Analyzing noise compensation properties of trained recurrent neural networks

UNIQUE supervisor: Guillaume Lajoie, Université de Montréal

Supervisor Home University: Cristina Savin and Eero Simoncelli, New York University

Tal Dankovich

PhD student, Department of Neuro- and Sensory Physiology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Germany

Project title: An automatic analysis of protein topology in synapses

UNIQUE supervisors: Flavie Lavoie-Cardinal & Christian Gagné, Université Laval

Supervisor home University: Silvio Rizzoli, University Medical Center Göttingen

Thomas Dargent

Master's student, Master Science et Ingénierie des Données, Université de Rouen Normandie, France

Project title: Anatomically constrained domain adaptation for subcortical structure segmentation in MRI

UNIQUE supervisor: Ismail Ben Ayed, École de Technologie Superieure (ETS)

Supervisor home University: Caroline Petitjean, Université de Rouen Normandie

Soumya Suvra Ghosal

Undergraduate student, Electronics and Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology Durgapur, India

Project title: Anatomically constrained domain adaptation for subcortical structure segmentation in MRI

UNIQUE Supervisor: Ismail Ben Ayed, École de Technologie Superieure (ETS)

Supervisor at home university: Durbadal Mandal

Lamyae IKAN

Master's student, Master Sciences du médicament et des produits de santé, Université Clermont Auvergne, France

Project title: Impact of Pulvinar on cortical visual processing

UNIQUE supervisor: Christian Casanova, Université de Montréal

Supervisor at home university: Pascal Coudert, Université Clermont Auvergne

Steven Jia

Master's student, Department of Engineering, École Centrale Lyon, France

Project title: Characterizing the link between cerebrovascular pathology and metabolism in Alzheimer’s disease using machine learning

UNIQUE Supervisors: Pierre Bellec & AmanPreet Badhwar, Université de Montréal

Supervisor at home university: Mohamed Ichchou, École Centrale Lyon, France

Daniel Lindh

PhD student, School of psychology, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

Project title: Visual representations supporting category‐specific information about visual objects in the brain

UNIQUE supervisor: Frédéric Gosselin, Université de Montréal

Supervisor at home university: Ian Charest, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

Yat Long Lo

Undergraduate student, Computer Science, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Project title: Combining 3D game design and reinforcement learning to explore the neural mechanisms of embodied navigation

UNIQUE Supervisor: Paul Cisek, Université de Montréal

Supervisor at home university: Ka Wai Kwok, University of Hong Kong

Alexandre Pérez

Master's student, Applied mathematics and computer science, École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, France

Project title: Analysis of socio-demographics with missing values in the UK Biobank

UNIQUE supervisor: Jean-Baptiste Poline, McGill University

Supervisor at home university: Éric Duceau, École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées

Constance Philippe

Master's student, Données, Analyse, Traitement et Applications en Signal et Image, Centrale Nantes, France

Project title: Generalization of deep learning tasks for medical imaging applications

UNIQUE supervisor: Julien Cohen-Addad, Polytechnique Montréal

Supervisor at home university: Diana Mateus, Centrale Nantes

Elias Ramzi

Master's student, Signal processing & Machine learning, CentraleSupélec, France

Project title: Image segmentation using deep learning

UNIQUE supervisor: Julien Cohen-Addad, Polytechnique Montréal

Supervisor at home university: Michel Barret, CentraleSupélec

Elisabetta Vallarino

PhD student, Department of mathematics, Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy

Project title: On the two-step approach for brain connectivity estimation from M/EEG data: the role of the spectral features

UNIQUE supervisor: Karim Jerbi, Université de Montréal

Supervisor at home university: Alberto Sorrentino, Università degli Studi di Genova

Leander Van Eekelen

Master's student, Biomedical Engineering, University of Technology Eindhoven, Netherlands

Project title: Improving the ability of deep neural networks to generalize on neuronal histology images

UNIQUE supervisor: Julien Cohen-Adad, Polytechnique Montréal

Supervisor at home university: Mitko Veta, University of Technology Eindhoven

Igor Leandro Vieira

Undergraduate student, LIRIS - Laboratoire d'Informatique en Image et Systèmes d'Information, École Centrale de Lyon, France

Project title: Characterizing the link between cerebrovascular pathology and metabolism in Alzheimer’s disease using machine learning

UNIQUE Supervisors: Pierre Bellec & AmanPreet Badhwar, Université de Montréal

Supervisor at home university: Emmanuel Dellandréa, École Centrale de Lyon

Ryan Vogt

PhD student, Applied Mathematics, University of Washington, USA

Project title: Understanding Dynamics of RNNs using Lyapunov Exponents

UNIQUE supervisor: Guillaume Lajoie, Université de Montréal

Supervisor at home university: Eli Shlizerman, University of Washington