Talks and Service — Naren Akash

Awards and Honours

2022, 2023, 2025, 2026: MICCAI Society Travel Award (USD 1,000 each), MICCAI Society
2026: SAIL Travel Award (USD 3,000), Symposium on Artificial Intelligence in Learning Health Systems
2024: MICCAI Society Travel and Registration Award (USD 2,500), MICCAI Society
2022: Gold Medal for Outstanding Volunteer, IIIT Hyderabad
2022: Dean's Award for Undergraduate Research Excellence, IIIT Hyderabad
2021: Winner, Startup Aid 2019 Pre-Incubation Program, Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, IIIT Hyderabad
2018, 2021: Dean's Merit List for Academic Excellence, IIIT Hyderabad

Media Spotlight

2024: Guest on the AI-ready Healthcare Podcast (Season 11), on the MICCAI Student Board's journey, initiatives and vision. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Podchaser and Pocket Casts.

Academic Talks

2023 Monsoon: CS7.404 Digital Image Processing with Anoop Namboodiri
- Viewing Organs from Outside the Body 01: Imaging Physics, Radon Transform, Parallel Beam Projections
- Viewing Organs from Outside the Body 02: Image Reconstruction from Parallel and Fan Beam Projections
2023 Spring: CS5.505 (Graduate) Computer Vision
- The Secrets of Optical Flow: Classical Approaches and Basic Deep Learning Methods
2022 Spring: CS5.505 (Graduate) Computer Vision with Anoop Namboodiri and Sudipta Banerjee
- Object Detection in Deep Learning: R-CNN, YOLO and DETR Architectures and their Variants

2026: Practical AI and ML for Clinicians, a five-lecture series for the ISB–AIG Executive Course, Indian School of Business
2023: Bayes, Eigen and Beyond: Foundational Mathematics for ML at Robotics Summer School, IIIT Hyderabad
2022: Neural Networks Learn Conditional Probability Densities at Machine Learning Reading Group, IIIT Hyderabad
2022: Differential Privacy: We Need to Go “Deeper”! at Fairness, Privacy and Ethics Reading Group, IIIT Hyderabad
2021: Computer Vision Inspired Learning on Protein Surfaces at Machine Learning Reading Group, IIIT Hyderabad
2021: Optimization Methods for ML: Theory and Practice at CVIT Deep Learning Summer School, IIIT Hyderabad

Teaching Experience

2023 Spring: EC5.405 Medical Image Analysis with Jayanthi Sivaswamy at IIIT Hyderabad
2022 Spring: CS5.505 (Graduate) Computer Vision with Anoop Namboodiri and Sudipta Banerjee at IIIT Hyderabad
2021 Monsoon: CS3.306 Algorithms and Operating Systems with Lini Theresa Thomas at IIIT Hyderabad

2024: UG Minor Program on Specialization in Machine Learning with iHub-Data, IIIT Hyderabad
2023: PG Certification on Deep Learning Foundations and Applications with TalentSprint and IISc Bengaluru
2023: Foundations of Modern Machine Learning with iHub-Data, IIIT Hyderabad
2022: Foundations of Modern Machine Learning with iHub-Data, IIIT Hyderabad

Professional Service

2027: Student and Career Advancement Chair, Organizing Committee, MICCAI 2027
2028: Diversity Chair, Organizing Committee, MICCAI 2028
2025 – 2026: General and Program Chair, MICCAI Doctoral Symposium
2024 – 2026: General and Program Chair, MICCAI EMERGE Workshop
2024 – 2026: General and Program Chair, MICCAI PhD Thesis Madness
2024 – 2026: General and Program Chair, MICCAI Educational Challenge
2024 – 2025: Member, MICCAI Society (Travel and Registration) Awards Committee
2024 – Present: Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, AAAI 2026, ICLR 2025, ISBI 2025, and MICCAI 2024, 2025 and 2026
2023 – Present: Member, MICCAI Board Career Advancement Working Group

Research Supervision and Mentoring

Interns: Harshavardhan Pandurangan, Md Faizal Karim, Prakhar Singhal, Vidhi Rathore, Shailender Goyal, Siddharth Mangipudi

Masters: Anirudh Kaushik (next: Microsoft), Arihanth Srikar (next: Adobe Research), Samruddhi Shastri (next: Google)
Undergraduates: Soham Vaishnav, Rudransh Agarwal (next: Databricks), Shreyas Palley, Lokesh Gautham (next: New York University)

Leadership and Volunteering