Ingela Nyström is a professor at the Centre for Image Analysis, Dept. of Information Technology, Uppsala University. She received the MSc degree in applied computer science and mathematics, and the PhD degree in computerized image analysis from Uppsala University in the 1990s. She is the Head of Division of Visual Information and Interaction (Vi2) at the Dept. of Information Technology, UU, and Director of the Centre for Image Analysis. Her research interest is interactive segmentation, visualization, digital geometry, and quantitative shape analysis of volume images with their medical applications.
At this WiSE lunchseminar, Ingela will introduce an exciting project, in which they have developed a surgery-planning system for facial reconstruction after trauma or cancer treatment. Thereafter Ingela will present her work from the perspective of gender and diversity. In today’s society, many organisations have gender diversity on the agenda. So also Uppsala University, the first university in Sweden, where they aim for gender balance and diversity in all activities in order to achieve a higher quality at all levels of the organisation.
Registration required, by March 16.