I have delivered 26 presentations in 3 countries (Canada, USA, Australia), including 1 invited seminar talk​, and have received 3 honours.

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2017

Assessing widefield hemodynamic pulsatility using computational biophotonic imaging: a co-integration of biomedical optics, electronic control, image processing and machine learning, University of Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute, Edmonton. Invited

Blood flow imaging and demystifying academic research, University of Waterloo Biomedical Engineering Undergraduate Seminar, Waterloo.

​Non-contact arrhythmia assessment in natural settings: a step toward preventive cardiac care, SPIE Photonics West, San Francisco, USA.
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Assessing photoplethysmographic imaging performance beyond facial perfusion analysis, SPIE Photonics West, San Francisco, USA.

2016

 Non-contact hemodynamic monitoring, University of California Irvine, Irvine, USA. Invited

Improving quality of care through touchless vitals monitoring, Innovator's Den, Toronto, Canada. Runner-Up

​​Revolutionizing baby monitoring with cutting-edge imaging research, Velocity Fund Finals, Waterloo, Canada.

Touchless vitals monitoring: pushing toward preventive healthcare, 3 Minute Thesis Competition, Waterloo, Canada. Runner-Up

Inventing an imaging system and how to get people excited about your research, Vision and Image Processing Research Group Seminar, Waterloo, Canada.

2015

Graduate School – What I wish I knew in 3rd year, Software Engineering Undergraduate Symposium, Waterloo, Canada.

Photoplethysmographic imaging for non-contact blood pulse detection, Systems Design Engineering Seminar, Waterloo, Canada.

Intelligent clinical decision support system for melanoma cancer management, Agfa Healthcare, Waterloo, Canada.

Illumination-compensated non-contact imaging photoplethysmography via dual-mode temporally-coded illumination, SPIE Photonics West, San Francisco, USA.

2014

An imaging photoplethysmography system for non-contact blood pulse detection, PhD Comprehensive Examination, Waterloo, Canada.

Skin lesion classification system: image processing summary, Joint Lab-Agfa-OCE Summary Meeting, Waterloo, Canada.

The cardiovascular system: a primer for biomedical engineering applications, Vision and Image Processing Research Group Seminar, Waterloo, Canada.

2013

Unsupervised classification of agricultural land cover using SAR via a sparse texture dictionary model, IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Melbourne, Australia.

Unsupervised classification of sea-ice using SAR via an adaptive texture sparsifying transform, IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Melbourne, Australia.

Continuous sea ice thickness estimation using a joint MODIS/AMSR-E guided variational model, IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Melbourne, Australia.

Importance of intuitive features in clinical decision support systems, University of Waterloo Research Symposium, Waterloo, Canada. Best Oral Presentation

Making an academic poster, Rockway Mennonite Collegiate, Kitchener, Canada.

2012

Progress on a clinical decision support system for detecting melanoma, Agfa-OCE Progress Meeting, Waterloo, Canada.

Perceptual structure distortion ratio: an image quality metric based on robust measures of complex phase order,” 9th Conference on Computer and Robot Vision, Toronto, Canada.

Extracting high-level intuitive features (HLIF) for classifying skin lesions using standard camera images,” 9th Conference on Computer and Robot Vision, Toronto, Canada.

Extracting high-level intuitive features (HLIF) to enhance skin cancer detection, Graduate Student Research Conference, Waterloo, Canada.

A computational framework for recognizing handwritten matrices, Symbolic Computation Seminar, Waterloo, Canada.