Dawood Al ChantiGrenoble INP – UGA · GIPSA-Lab

Academic community

Academic Activities & Service

Scientific evaluation, invited training, research exchanges and academic responsibilities.

Professional memberships

Member of the MICCAI Society.

Academic responsibilities

Elected member, GIPSA-Lab Conseil de laboratoire (CDL)

Serving on the laboratory council since October 2026.

Service

President of the deliberation jury for the 2026 Baccalauréat professionnel.

Research visits

International collaboration

Visiting researcher and lecturer at Aalto University through Unite!, with research discussions on explainable AI fragility and collaborative teaching.

Invited talks & training

Research school

Sub-coordinator of the Artificial Intelligence track at Unite! Research School 2026, Santuario di Oropa, Italy.

Invited training

Keynote and hands-on training at the ERA4Health workshop on implementing AI tools in biomedical research and healthcare.

Peer review & evaluation

Journal reviewing

  • IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
  • IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
  • IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
  • IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
  • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
  • IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
  • IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
  • Medical Image Analysis — 7 completed reviews
  • Pattern Recognition — 26 completed reviews
  • Neural Networks — 3 completed reviews
  • Computer Vision and Image Understanding
  • Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Conference reviewing

MICCAI, CVPR, AAAI, BMVC, IEEE WCCI and IPCAI.

Funding proposals

Expert reviewer for the French National Research Agency (ANR).

Thesis examinations

Examiner for Mouath Aouayeb, Deep Learning for Facial Micro-expressions Analysis, INSA Rennes, 9 November 2022.

Conference participation & seminars

Conference presentations

OLVA at MICCAI 2021; spatio-temporal consistency and label transfer at MICCAI 2020; facial expression classification at VISAPP 2018 and VISAPP 2017.

Seminars

2022: Autoencoders and variational autoencoders, GIPSA-Lab.
2021: Pragmatic learning with limited labelled data, GDR; OLVA, Pôle Sciences des Données.
2020–2021: IFSS-Net research talks at Inria MIMESIS, SIMS and CAMMA.

Conference attendance

MICCAI 2024, CVPR 2022 and IEEE ICIP 2020.

Professional development

Teaching and research training · Archive
  • PerForm university pedagogy programme, Grenoble INP, 2021–2022.
  • Emotional Intelligence in Remote Teaching and Learning, Universidade de Lisboa, March 2022.
  • Teaching Science and Engineering, EPFL MOOC.
  • Company creation and consultancy training, ED EEATS, 2018.
  • DS3 Data Science Summer School, École Polytechnique / Université Paris-Saclay, September 2017; research poster presentation.