Islem Rekik: Graph Neural Nets for Brain Connectomics

Islem Rekik is the Director of the Brain And SIgnal Research and Analysis (BASIRA) laboratory (http://basira-lab.com/) and an Associate Professor at Imperial College London (Innovation Hub I-X). Together with BASIRA members, she conducted more than 100 cutting-edge research projects cross-pollinating AI and healthcare —with a sharp focus on brain imaging and neuroscience. She is also a co/chair/organizer of more than 25 international first-class conferences /workshops /competitions (e.g., Affordable AI 2021-22, Predictive AI 2018-2024, Machine Learning in Medical Imaging 2021-24, WILL competition 2021-23). Dr Rekik has been awarded prestigious international research fellowships including the EU Marie-Curie Fellowship in 2019 and the TUBITAK 2232 for Outstanding Experienced Researchers during 2020-2022. In addition to her 150+ high-impact publications, she is a strong advocate of equity, inclusiveness and diversity in research. She is the former president of the Women in MICCAI (WiM), the co-founder of the international RISE Network to Reinforce Inclusiveness & diverSity and Empower minority researchers in Low-Middle Income Countries (LMIC) and a committee member of the AFRICAI network. She is in the organizing committee of MICCAI 2022 (Singapore), 2023 (Vancouver), 2024 (Marrakesh) and 2025 (South Korea). Graph Neural Networks in Network Neuroscience