2026

Feb 23, 2026

New Website

Our new website is live! Enjoy the cleaner, modern design and easier navigation. Stay tuned for updates!

2025

Sep 1, 2025

Expanding

Our team is expanding! We have four more PhD students join us!

2024

Dec 9, 2024

New CHAI PhD positions in partnership with Canon Medical

We have now completed recruitment for two PhD positions as part of the CHAI AI Hub in collaboration with Canon Medical. New openings (if any) will be announced here join us page.

May 17, 2024

CHAI hub is recruiting

We are recruiting four PDRAs to work on the CHAI AI Hub see our join us page.

2023

Dec 19, 2023

2023 in review

2023 has been a great year for VIOS. We welcomed Steven as a new academic and Valerio has joined Nottingham. We saw students graduating (Xiao, Victor) landing excellent jobs. We continue to expand. We welcomed 5 new postdocs, 7 new PhD students (3 with Archimedes RC in Greece), 3 visitors, and 2 software engineers. We will continue to expand. This growth has been fueled by impressive success in new grants tackling problems across several applications. From pure theory (representation learning), to computer assisted surgery, to digital research infrastructure aided by AI, to using AI for molecule design, to AI for netzero and many more. We are extremely grateful to our collaborators and the funding agencies for the continued support. Importantly though this success has also led to considerable research output. It is not possible to list it all, but here are some highlights: new patents with Canon, papers at ICLR, best paper awards at DART, papers to soon appear in Nature Methods and Scientific Reports and so much more. We cannot wait to see what 2024 will bring.

Nov 15, 2023

VIOS is Recruiting PhD Students

VIOS is expanding with new PhD students (at least 3 with fully funding available). Descriptions of the positions will be made available at the join us page.

2022

Nov 18, 2022

We are expanding again!

We are looking for several PhD students (Deadlines 30/Nov/2022, 13/Jan/2023, 3/Feb/2023) visit our join us page for more information.

Sep 12, 2022

VIOS at MICCAI 2022

VIOS has strong presence in MICCAI presenting 5 papers and co-organising two workshops (DART and MAD).

Sep 12, 2022

We are expanding! (ddl Oct 21)

We are looking for a PostDoc, visit our join us page for more information. See this link for an opening on causal representation learning from rare data.

2021

Sep 27, 2021

We are expanding!

We are looking for PostDocs and PhD students, visit our join us page for more information. See this link for an opening on Causal Machine Learning in healthcare.

Sep 24, 2021

VIOS at MICCAI 2021

VIOS has strong presence in MICCAI presenting 5 papers, and organizing one tutorial, and co-organising one workshop.

Sep 21, 2021

Sotos' Keynote

Sotos will be keynote speaker for MIUA 2022.

Apr 28, 2021

Keynote at IMPROVE 2021

Sotos’ keynote talk at IMPROVE 2021 (International Conference on Image and Vision Engineering) “How should we create algorithms to do more with less?”

Mar 30, 2021

DREAM Tutorial at MICCAI 2021

Sotos, Alison, Spiros, Xiao and Pedro will be giving a tutorial on disentangled representation learning at MICCAI 2021 (Strasbourg). See here DREAM 2021 page.

Feb 1, 2021

Keynote at Artificial Intelligence in NMR, MRI and Neuroscience 2021

Keynote talk from Dr. Chen Qin on “Deep Learning for Dynamic MRI Reconstruction” at Artificial Intelligence in NMR, MRI and Neuroscience.

2020

Nov 23, 2020

Invited talk at Hessian 2020

Sotos invited talk at Hessian.AI “Doing more with less by learning better data representations”.

Oct 5, 2020

Area Chair for CVPR 2021

Sotos will serve as Area Chair for CVPR 2021 (Nashville, TN).

Oct 5, 2020

VIOS at MICCAI 2020

VIOS has strong presence in MICCAI with 7 papers, one tutorial and one keynote (DART, by Sotos).

Oct 4, 2020

Area Chair for MICCAI 2020

Sotos will serve as Area Chair for MICCAI 2020 (Peru).

Oct 4, 2020

DREAMy Tutorial at MICCAI 2020

Sotos and Alison will be giving a tutorial on disentangled representation learning at MICCAI 2020 (Peru). See here DREAM 2020 PAGE.

Aug 23, 2020

Tutorial Chair for ECCV 2020

Sotos will serve as Tutorial Chair for ECCV 2020 (Glasgow).

Aug 23, 2020

Dr Chen Qin joins VIOS

Dr Chen Qin joined our collaboratory. Visit her profile here.

Apr 24, 2020

Keynote Speaker for AI4AH 2020

Sotos is deeply honoured to give an invited talk at the AI for Affordable Healthcare Workshop in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) in conjunction with ICLR (a premier machine learning conference).

Jan 1, 2020

Ilkay became an Assistant Professor

Our ex-student/postdoc made the next step in his career. Ilkay is starting at Istanbul Technical University as Assistant Professor.

2019

Oct 13, 2019

Keynote Speaker for STACOM 2019

Sotos is deeply honoured to give the keynote talk at the best and longest running workshop on cardiac image analysis, the STACOM 2019 at MICCAI (China).

Oct 12, 2019

Excellent Progress of The Team

It has been a good 2019 as of now, with 3 papers in MICCAI (2 in workshops), 2 in MIDL, 3 in CVPR (workshop).

Sep 9, 2019

Valerio became a Lecturer

Our ex-student/postdoc made the next step in his career. Valerio is starting at Napier as lecturer, less than 1 year from his PhD defense.

Jul 18, 2019

Paper in MedIA

Agis’s excellent work on disentangled learning is finally live in MedIA.

Jul 8, 2019

Shortlisted for Best Paper Award at MIDL 2019

Tian was a runner up for the best paper award at MIDL for his work on pathology factorisation.

May 29, 2019

Paper in Science Translational Medicine for BOLD MRI

After almost 8 years of work, our paper setting the new way to do BOLD in the heart is out in Science Translational Medicine.

Mar 19, 2019

Recruiting PhD Students and PostDocs

We are growing the team. If you have a strong profile please email Sotos and attach a CV.

Mar 18, 2019

RAEng Fellowship

Sotos became a Canon Medical/Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in Healthcare AI. Over 5 years this endowed position will provide with the opportunity to look into distinct challenges in using and deploying AI in healthcare settings. It is thanks to the generous support of Canon Medical Research Europe, the Academy and the School of Engineering.

Affiliations
The University of Edinburgh CHAI AI Hub Canon Medical Research PhenomUK