Ph.D. Student Abel Reyes Selected for SIIM 2023 Helen and Paul Chang Foundation Travel Award


Ph.D. student Abel Reyes, Engineering-Computational Science and Engineering, has been selected for the SIIM 2023 Helen and Paul Chang Foundation New Investigator Travel Award for a paper co-authored with Assistant Professor Sidike Paheding, Applied Computing department.

The paper is titled, “Explainability of Deep Learning Models for Melanoma Segmentation: A New Perspective from Compound Loss Functions.”

As a SIIM 2023 New Investigator Travel Awardee, Reyes will receive up to $1,250 towards his SIIM23 attendance in Austin, Texas, this June. 

Paheding is a member of the Institute of Computing and Cybersystems’s (ICC) Center for Data Sciences (DataS).

The Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) 2023 Annual Meeting is organized by the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM). It will take place June 14 – 16, 2023, in Austin, Texas.