VIL folk at the annual summer barbeque, 2016

People

Team

Current undergraduate/graduate students, research fellows and research staff on our team.

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Collaborators

Local, national and international collaborations with other researchers are a key component of the our program.

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Alumni

See a list of our distinguished former undergraduate/graduate students, research fellows and research staff.

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Significant Achievements

Over the past 20+ years, the VIL has helped train many undergraduate and graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and staff. Many of our alumni have gone onto successful academic careers and others have excelled in industry.

Their list of significant achievements include:


Jean Chen, PhD

Winner of the University of Calgary Governor General's MSc Gold Medal at Convocation (2005).

Robert Kosior, PhD, MD

Journal cover for a topographic scoring system for use with MR images in acute stroke (Stroke 2010; 41: 455-60).

Jerome Yerly, PhD

Best talk prize recipient at the workshop on Mathematics of Brain Imaging held at Simon Fraser University (2012).

Mari Boesen, MSc

Winner First Prize Medical and Biological Physics Division Student Oral Competition at the Canadian Association of Physics Congress (2012).

David Adair, BSc

First prize at the Alberta Biomedical Engineering Meeting for his poster on surgical navigation software performed while an undergraduate intern (2013).

Christopher d'Esterre, PhD

Journal cover for time-dependent CT perfusion thresholds (Stroke 2015; 46: 3390-7).

Adrian Tsang, PhD

Honourable mention at the Imaging Network of Ontario (ImNO) meeting (2016).

Mariana Bento, PhD and Roberto Souza, PhD

Organized the successful Brain-Hack Workshop in Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil (2018).

Roberto Souza, PhD

Organized an international challenge at the Medical Imaging/Deep Learning Meeting (2020).

alumni

In 2017,

our students and fellows secured over $120,000 in financial support.

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Trainee Awards

Our trainees hold or have held awards from multiple local, provincial and national organizations including

The Calgary-based NSERC CREATE I3T Program also supported many of our trainees between 2012-8.