Julia Schnabel and Marleen de Bruijne have completed their terms as board members. Julia Schnabel joined the Board in 2017 and served as its Executive Secretary since 2020. Marleen de Bruijne joined the Board in 2019 and was Chair of the Conference Affairs Working Group. 

“On behalf of the Board, we sincerely thank Julia and Marleen for their leadership and commitment to the Society”, said Caroline Essert, MICCAI Society President. “We are fortunate to have such accomplished and dedicated volunteers. We are also excited to welcome Nicola, Pingkun and Jinah to the MICCAI Board and look forward to working together to advance the goals of MICCAI and its members.”

 
About the Board Members

Jinah Park  joins the Board as the Conference Chair for MICCAI 2025 which will be held in Daejeon, South Korea.  Jinah is a Professor in the School of Computing and is the KAIST ICT Endowed Chair at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST). She is currently leading the Computer Graphics and Visualization (CGV) research laboratory where her research team continues working on a model-based approach to medical image analysis. She received her BSE in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, her MSE and Ph.D in Computer and Information Science from the University of Pennsylvania.

Jinah was an early participant of MICCAI starting in the late 90s. More recently, her research team participated in various Challenge programs in MICCAI, achieving high rankings. She is actively promoting MICCAI in South Korea. Hosting the conference in 2025 will enable MICCAI to connect with South Korean academic research groups and numerous medical start-ups, and serve as the catalyst for tighter connections within the regional research community and greater engagement with MICCAI. 

Nicola Rieke has been an active member of the MICCAI Society for more than seven years, having attended every MICCAI conference and participated as a MICCAI Reviewer since 2015. She has volunteered in many working groups, including the Career Advancement Working Group, MICCAI Conference Working Group (2020-2022), chaired the MICCAI Society Start-up Village (2020-2022) and is the Workshop Co-Chair for MICCAI 2024. She was also a MICCAI Area Chair in 2021 and 2022 and a mentor for MICCAI Students in 2018, 2020 and 2021. She kicked-off several successful MICCAI Workshops as part of the organization team including DART (Domain Adaptation and Representation Transfer, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019), DCL (Distributed and Collaborated Learning, 2022, 2021, 2020) and FAIR (aFfordable AI and healthcare for Resource diverse global health, 2022, 2021). In 2015, she was recognized with the Young Scientist Award and has first-authored three MICCAI papers and co-authored one MICCAI paper.

Nicola works as a Solution Architect Manager at NVIDIA leading the group for Healthcare & Life Sciences EMEA. Her research interests include surgical data science, federated learning, AI for developing countries and innovative medical solutions, among others. She earned her Dr. Rer. Nat. degree in Computer Science and her M.Sc in Biomedical Computing from Technical University of Munich (TU Munich) as well as her B.Sc in Mathematics from RWTH Aachen.

Pingkun Yan is the P.K. Lashmet Career Development Chair and Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). Prior to joining RPI, he was a Senior Scientist at Philips Research, working at the campus of National Institutes of Health (NIH). His research focuses on translational medical imaging informatics and image-guided intervention using artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques, in close collaboration with clinicians. He has published 94 peer-reviewed articles and received more than 8,400 citations. He earned his Ph.D. at the National University of Singapore and a B.S. with Honors at the University of Science and Technology of China.

Pingkun's involvement with the MICCAI Society began in 2005 when he attended the MICCAI Conference in Palm Springs, USA. He credits this conference and MICCAI for impacting his career when he delivered an oral presentation and was awarded the Young Scientist Award. Since then, he has served the Society having presented 14 papers, been a reviewer since 2006, was an Area Chair from 2018-2020 and again in 2022. At the most recent MICCAI conference, he served as Challenge chair and will serve as the RISE-MICCAI Event Co-Chair at MICCAI 2023 in Vancouver, Canada.

The MICCAI Society also congratulates Linwei Wang, who has been elected as the new Executive Secretary for a three-year term. She joined the board in 2020 when she was chairing the Code-of-Conduct and Diversity Working Group. Previously, she was the Program Chair for MICCAI 2022 and a Board member for Women in MICCAI. Her involvement in the Society also includes the roles of a reviewer, Area Chair and workshop organizer since attending her first MICCAI conference in 2006.

Linwei is a Professor in the Department of Computing and Information Sciences at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and Director of the Computational Biomedicine Laboratory. She is also the Director of the Personalized Health Technology Center of Research Excellence at RIT that is currently affiliated with over 100 faculty members. Linwei earned her PhD in Computing and Information Sciences at the Rochester Institute of Technology, her MPhil, Electrical and Computer Engineering from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and her BE in Optic-Electronic Information Engineering at Zhejiang University.