Neural Teleportation
M. Armenta, T. Judge, N. Painchaud, Y. Skandarani, C. Lemaire, G. G. Sanchez, P. Spino, and P.-M. Jodoin, "Neural Teleportation," Mathematics, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 480, Jan. 2023.
Ph.D. in Computer Science (Joint Ph.D.), Université de Sherbrooke / INSA Lyon, Sept. 2020 - May 2024
Mention: Summa cum laude
Subject: Deep manifold learning for improved high blood pressure characterization using echocardiography
Supervisors: Pierre-Marc Jodoin, Olivier Bernard, Nicolas Duchateau
Links to thesis manuscript: Savoir UdeS | HAL Theses
M.Sc. in Computer Science, Université de Sherbrooke, May 2019 -
Subject: Segmentation of MRI and ultrasound cardiac medical images with anatomical guarantees
Supervisor: Pierre-Marc Jodoin
B.Sc. in Computer Science, Université de Sherbrooke, 2016-2019
Mention: Valedictorian
Postdoctoral researcher, CREATIS (INSA Lyon) / LIX (École polytechnique) / ICube (Université de Strasbourg), Nov. 2024 - Present
Subject: Multimodal learning on graphs and clinical data for pulmonary embolism risk stratification models Supervisors: Odyssée Merveille, Johannes Lutzeyer, Thomas Lampert
Research Engineer, CREATIS (INSA Lyon), June-Aug. 2024
Objective: Finalizing a research paper started during my thesis.
Invited student researcher, CREATIS, May-July 2019
Subject: Generalizing an anatomically-consistent segmentation method, first developed for cardiac cine-MRI, to echocardiography
Supervisor: Olivier Bernard
Honor roll, October 2024
Université de Sherbrooke, Faculty of Science
Annual honor roll for graduate students at the Faculty of Science.
Scientific distinction, December 2023
INSA Lyon
One (1) of 18 annual distinctions.
Louis-Berlinguet “Relève étoile” Award, April 2023
Fonds de Recherche - Nature et Technologies (FRQNT)
One (1) award a month across Quebec for high-quality, high-impact publications by young researchers in/from Quebec.
Thesis funding by competitive examination, 2022-2023
LabEx PRIMES
52 thesis funded out of 100+ submitted proposals.
Doctoral training scholarship, 2021-2025
Fonds de Recherche - Nature et Technologies (FRQNT)
5th out of 31 candidates across Quebec that year.
Canada Graduate Scholarship – Doctorate (CGS D), 2021-2024
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
39th out of 160 candidates across Canada that year.
Scholarship for Doctoral level study, 2020-2022
Fondation Arbour
10% acceptance rate for this one-year private scholarship (2020-2021), renewable once (2021-2022).
R3D Conseil inc. scholarship, Nov. 2020
Université de Sherbrooke, Department of Computer Science
One (1) scholarship awarded each year by the Department of Computer Science.
Master’s training scholarship, 2019-2021
Fonds de Recherche - Nature et Technologies (FRQNT)
1st out of 17 candidates across Quebec that year.
Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship - Master’s (CGS M), 2019-2020
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
30% acceptance rate.
Canada Graduate Scholarships – Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplements (CGS-MSFSS), 2019
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
50% acceptance rate within the CGS M laureates.
Gérard-Houdeville award, 2019
Université de Sherbrooke, Department of Computer Science
Undergraduate valedictorian for the B.Sc. in computer science.
M. Armenta, T. Judge, N. Painchaud, Y. Skandarani, C. Lemaire, G. G. Sanchez, P. Spino, and P.-M. Jodoin, "Neural Teleportation," Mathematics, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 480, Jan. 2023.
N. Painchaud, N. Duchateau, O. Bernard, and P.-M. Jodoin, "Echocardiography Segmentation With Enforced Temporal Consistency," IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 41, no. 10, pp. 2867–2878, Oct. 2022.
N. Painchaud, Y. Skandarani, T. Judge, O. Bernard, A. Lalande, and P.-M. Jodoin, "Cardiac Segmentation with Strong Anatomical Guarantees," IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 39, no. 11, pp. 3703–3713, Nov. 2020.
H. J. Ling, N. Painchaud, P.-Y. Courand, P.-M. Jodoin, D. Garcia, and O. Bernard, "Extraction of Volumetric Indices from Echocardiography: Which Deep Learning Solution for Clinical Use?," in proc. Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart (FIMH), 2023, pp. 245-254.
Y. Skandarani, N. Painchaud, P.-M. Jodoin, and A. Lalande, "On the effectiveness of GAN generated cardiac MRIs for segmentation," presented at Medical Imaging with Deep Learning (MIDL), 2020.
N. Painchaud, Y. Skandarani, T. Judge, O. Bernard, A. Lalande, and P.-M. Jodoin, "Cardiac MRI Segmentation with Strong Anatomical Guarantees," in proc. Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2019, pp. 632–640.
Reviewer for top-tier journals in artificial intelligence and medical imaging:
Tutorial at IABM 2025, Nice (France)
Scientific Paper Presentation at Multimodal Learning and Information Fusion Meet-up of the GdR IASIS, 4th edition, Paris (France)
PhD Thesis Defense at Université de Sherbrooke / INSA Lyon, Villeurbanne (France)
Tutorial at CLUB des développeurs, Lyon (France)
Volunteer for the conference, Colloque Français d’Intelligence Artificielle en Imagerie Biomédicale (IABM), March 2025
Duties included: Administrative and manual labor during the conférence, such as: setting up the venue, greeting attendees, etc.
Volunteer for the conference, Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart (FIMH), June 2023
Duties included: Administrative and manual labor during the conférence, such as: recording of keynote and oral presentations, setting up the venue, greeting attendees, etc.
Organizer of a doctoral symposium for Ph.D. students, CREATIS, 2022
Duties included: Communication with the participants (call for presentations, etc.), preparing the schedule, preparing the location and material (checking material for the presentations, testing auditorium setup, etc.), and coordinating the presentations on the day of
Scholarships applications support, Université de Sherbrooke, 2021-2022
Duties included: Helping graduate students prepare their scholarships applications
Medical imaging student committee, Université de Sherbooke, 2020-2021
Duties included: Organizing events for the community of graduate students in medical imaging
Student representative for promotional events, Université de Sherbrooke, 2018-2021
Duties included: Recruitment of prospective students