Call for Participation [MICCAI Society]
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MICCAI2022: Participate in the WiM WILL Competition!
We warmly invite you all to participate in the 2nd edition of WILL initiative, which is a premiere competition launched by the Women in MICCAI (WiM) to spotlight our inspirational MICCAI members and to build our community legacy.
Website: https://wim-will.github.io/site
Submission link: https://tinyurl.com/will-submit
Important dates:
Submission deadline: August 14, 2022
Announcement of the winners: MICCAI2022 awards ceremony
Overview
WILL aims at providing a digital platform where MICCAI members can share their career pathways as well as building a playlist/database of our community that will facilitate in providing a bigger picture of our community to the outside world. Participants will share video interviews with inspirational MICCAI members (e.g., supervisors, colleagues, young researchers (including Ph.D students), etc) in their fields. An anonymous panel of reviewers will first shortlist top 5 videos based on the content and interviewer's skills. The top 5 videos will then receive an independent ranking from a panel of judges and each of the 3 winning teams will receive an award of $300. All competing videos will be made public via the WiM-WILL YouTube channel.
Guidelines/Rules
- The program is open to everyone (students, postdocs, early career researchers, academics) regardless of their career stage.
- An interviewee can be a person at any career stage (including young researchers and Ph.D students) with inspirational contributions to the MICCAI research fields and society.
- The interviewee should be only one person.
- Participants are allowed to make a team of up to 2 members (i.e., interviewers) who will work together towards preparing and conducting an interview with their inspirational interviewee.
- Participating individual/team can make no more than two submissions.
- Each submission should be no less than 10 minutes in duration. The maximum allowed duration is 15 minutes.
- The awards will only be for the participating team and not for the interviewee.
Evaluation Criteria
- Aspects to cover in the interview (but not limited to):
- Advice from the heart that the interviewee gives to our research community members (a take-away story maybe).
- Career trajectories, shifts (from academia to industry or vice versa), and development.
- Stories on how the interviewee joined the medical imaging/machine learning community and what inspires them to continue in this field.
- The potential in medical imaging research for newbies.
- The challenges faced at the beginning of their careers, and how it turned to be a motivational story (whether personal or career-wise)
- Sharing success stories/struggles with graduate students and post-docs on publishing manuscripts and/or grant writing.
- Entrepreneurial/Startups challenges that are most commonly faced and tips to overcome them.
- Interviewer skills
- Confidence, preparation, HD video and audio quality, interview content and interview flow.
- Technical requirements
- For online interviews, we encourage the participants to use a high bandwidth internet connection to ensure high quality media recording.
Diversity statement
We promote and value diversity and inclusiveness in the MICCAI community. The WILL initiative welcomes participants, regardless of age, gender, identity, race, and ethnicity, for both the interviewer(s) and the interviewee.
For further inquiries, please contact us at womeninmiccai.will@gmail.com
We look forward to your WILL interviews!
Yours sincerely,
Sophia Bano, University College London, United Kingdom
Marwa Ismail, Case Western Reserve University, USA
Andrea Lara, Universidad Galileo, Guatemala
Islem Rekik (Advisor), Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
