CV

• Education
• Scholarships & Awards
• Publications
  • Journal Papers
  • Conference Papers
• Reviews
• Teaching
  • Teaching Assistant
• Work Experience
• Service and Volunteer Work

Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Science (cotutelle), Université de Sherbrooke / INSA Lyon, 2020-
  Supervisors: Pierre-Marc Jodoin, Olivier Bernard, Nicolas Duchateau

• M.Sc. in Computer Science, Université de Sherbrooke, 2019-
  Supervisor: Pierre-Marc Jodoin

• B.Sc. in Computer Science, Université de Sherbrooke, 2016-2019

Scholarships & Awards

• Scientific distinction, December 2023
  INSA Lyon

• Louis-Berlinguet “Relève étoile” Award, April 2023
  Fonds de Recherche - Nature et Technologies (FRQNT)

• Thesis funding, 2022-2023
  LabEx PRIMES

• Canada Graduate Scholarship – Doctorate (CGS D), 2021-2024
  Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)

• Doctoral training scholarship, 2021-2025
  Fonds de Recherche - Nature et Technologies (FRQNT)

• Hydro-Québec merit scholarship (declined), 2021-2024
  Université de Sherbrooke

• Scholarship for Doctoral level study, 2020-2022
  Fondation Arbour

• R3D Conseil inc. scholarship, 2020
  Université de Sherbrooke

• Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship - Master’s (CGS M), 2019-2020
  Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)

• Master’s training scholarship, 2019-2021
  Fonds de Recherche - Nature et Technologies (FRQNT)

• Graduate studies merit scholarship (declined), 2019-2021
  Université de Sherbrooke

• Canada Graduate Scholarships – Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplements (CGS-MSFSS), 2019
  Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)

• Gérard-Houdeville award, 2019
  Université de Sherbrooke

Publications

Journal Papers

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.

Echocardiography Segmentation With Enforced Temporal Consistency

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.

Cardiac Segmentation with Strong Anatomical Guarantees

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.

Conference Papers

Extraction of Volumetric Indices from Echocardiography: Which Deep Learning Solution for Clinical Use?

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.

On the effectiveness of GAN generated cardiac MRIs for segmentation

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.

Cardiac MRI Segmentation with Strong Anatomical Guarantees

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.

Reviews

Reviewer for top-tier journals in artificial intelligence and medical imaging:

• IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
• IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
• IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
• IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control
• Scientific Reports

Teaching

Teaching Assistant

Data structures

Compilers and interpreters

Analysis and programming

Concurrent processes and parallelism

Neural networks

Functional programming

Exploitation of relational and OO databases

Work Experience

• Summer 2019: CREATIS (Biomedical imaging research laboratory)
  Invited student researcher
  Supervisor: Olivier Bernard
  • Duties included: Generalizing an anatomically-consistent segmentation method, first developed for cardiac cine-MRI, to echocardiography
• Summer 2018: GRIIS (Interdisciplinary Research Group in Health Informatics)
  Backend developer (Intern)
  Supervisor: Luc Lavoie
  • Duties included: Specifying and validating software requirements, design and test-driven implementation of internal APIs

Service and Volunteer Work

• 2021-2023: Université de Sherbrooke / École de technologie supérieure (ETS) / CREATIS
  Hands-on Supervisor for the Deep Learning for Medical Imaging School
  • Duties included: Preparing administrative and scientific content (video tutorials, interactive exercises, etc.), organizing and moderating hands-on sessions
• June 2023: Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart (FIMH)
  Student volunteer for the organization of the conference
  • Duties included: Administrative and manual labor during the conférence, such as: recording of keynote and oral presentations, setting up the venue, greeting attendees, etc.
• 2022: CREATIS
  Organizer of the doctoral day for 3rd year Ph.D. students
  • 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
• 2021-2022: Université de Sherbrooke
  Scholarships applications support
  • Duties included: Helping graduate students prepare their scholarships applications
• 2020-2021: Université de Sherbooke
  Medical imaging student committee
  • Duties included: Organizing events for the community of graduate students in medical imaging
• 2018-2021: Université de Sherbrooke
  Student representative for promotional events
  • Duties included: Recruitment of prospective students