Sep 2024 – present
PhD Researcher
University of Amsterdam (HAVA Lab) · Amsterdam, Netherlands
Developing vision transformer–based foundation models for surgical video understanding, with temporal action segmentation and procedure recognition from endoscopic video, and multimodal learning across video, instrument tracking, and clinical annotations. In collaboration with Amsterdam UMC.
Mar – Jul 2024
Visiting Research Intern
National Institute of Informatics · Tokyo, Japan
Studied gender bias in face-classification models using 50,000+ frames from Japanese TV, applying pseudo-labeling and domain adaptation to improve fairness without manual labels. Supervised by Prof. Shin'ichi Satoh; results published at ICCV and CVPR 2025 workshops.
May – Nov 2023
Visiting Research Intern
Northeastern University · Boston, MA, USA
Master's thesis on egocentric action recognition for the DARPA Perceptually-enabled Task Guidance (PTG) project, building an AR task-guidance assistant on HoloLens 2. Supervised by Prof. Deniz Erdogmus.
Oct 2021 – Oct 2022
Research Intern
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (iH-red project) · Barcelona, Spain
Built an automated system for malaria and neglected-tropical-disease diagnosis from microscopy images for resource-limited settings, reaching 95%+ detection accuracy with CNN-based detection pipelines.
Feb – Jun 2021
Erasmus Exchange Student
Czech Technical University in Prague · Prague, Czech Republic
Designed a predictive model for carotid artery plaque-stability classification from ultrasound, using SVMs with wavelet texture descriptors. Supervised by Prof. Jan Kybic; published at SPIE Medical Imaging 2021.