UNIQUE- Mitacs Globalink Research Awards, 2020-2021
UNIQUE-Globalink Research Award covers a 3-6 months research internship at the intersection between neuroscience and artificial intelligence for incoming and outgoing undergraduate, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. These awards are available through an agreement between UNIQUE and Mitacs.
[Closed competition]
Internship timeline: 3-6 months between April 1st 2020 and March 31st 2021
Total amount awarded: 6000$ CAD (independent of internship duration)
List of Eligible Countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, all countries in the European Union, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Lebanon, Macao, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Switzerland, Tunisia, Ukraine, United Kingdom and United States.
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