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Education

• Ph.D student in Physics (Medical Physics Concentration), McGill University, September 2024-Present
• M.Sc. in Medical Radiation Physics, McGill University, 2024
• Licentiate in Physics, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, 2021

Awards and scholarships/fellowships

• Best Poster Presentation Award at the Cancer Translational Research Horizons 2024 event
• Young Rising Stars Competition at the XXth International Conference on the use of Computers in Radiation therapy (ICCR 2024): Third Place
• 2024 AAPM/RSNA Doctoral Fellowship: Granted by the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM). This fellowship is given to two first-year doctoral students.
• Science Slam Competition at 5th DKFZ Summer School in Medical Physics 2023: Data Science and Machine Learning in Radiotherapy: Second Place
• RI-MUHC Studentship 2023: Granted by Research Institute McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) from January to December 2023
• Graduate Excellence Fellowship Award 2023: Granted by the Medical Physics Unit, McGill University.
• Graduate Excellence Fellowship Award 2022: Granted by the Medical Physics Unit, McGill University, to highly qualified students who are registering in the Medical Physics Graduate Program.
• Dierential Fee Waiver for International Students Award: Granted by McGill University for the first academic year. It exempts students from international tuition supplements and allows them to have tuition fees equal to those of a Quebec resident student
• Summer Physics Research Fellowship: Month stipend granted by the Department of Physics at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile.
• Padre Hurtado Award: Full tuition fee waiver, granted by the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile for undergraduate studies, corresponding to the academic years from 2017 to 2021. This award is granted to students who come from a low-income background and achieved high performance on the University Selection Test (PSU: Prueba de Seleccion Universitaria).
• Bicentenario Scholarship: Partial tuition fee waiver for higher education students who had a high academic performance in high school and are from low-income backgrounds. Granted by the Government of Chile, for academic years from 2017 to 2021.
• Presidente de la Republica Scholarship: Monthly stipend granted by the Government of Chile from 2015 until 2017. This scholarship is granted to superior education students in high-vulnerability economic conditions with high academic performance.

Research Experience

• McGill University, September 2024 - Present
  • PhD Research Student: “Towards the development of an mCODE-radiomics extension and knowledge base for digital twins in radiotherapy”
  • Supervisor: Dr. John Kildea, Co-Supervisor: Dr. Amal Zouaq
• McGill University, May 2023 - August 2024
  • Master Research Student: “Development and evaluation of a novel artificial intelligence model to predict radiotherapy replanning for head and neck cancer”
  • Supervisor: Dr. John Kildea
• Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, January 2022 - July 2022
  • iHealth Group - Millennium Institute for Intelligent Healthcare Engineering
  • Research Assistant: “Automatic segmentation of prostate lesions using machine and deep learning tools based on MRI series”
  • Supervisor: Dr. Domingo Mery, Co-supervisor: M.D. Cecilia Besa
• Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, March 2020 - July 2022
  • Undergraduate Research Student: “MRI-based surrogate imaging markers of aggressiveness in prostate cancer”
  • Supervisor: Dr. Paola Caprile, Co-supervisor: M.D. Cecilia Besa
• Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile - Instituto de Fisica, January 2019
  • Undergraduate Research Student (Summer Full Time Internship): “Fabrication of nanohybrid structures using porous alumina membranes”
  • Supervisor: Dr. Samuel Hevia

Publications

MRI-Based Surrogate Imaging Markers of Aggressiveness in Prostate Cancer: Development of a Machine Learning Model Based on Radiomic Features

Dominguez, I., Rios-Ibacache, O., Caprile, P., Gonzalez, J., San Francisco, I. F., & Besa, C. (2023). MRI-Based Surrogate Imaging Markers of Aggressiveness in Prostate Cancer: Development of a Machine Learning Model Based on Radiomic Features. Diagnostics, 13(17), 2779. https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics13172779

Research presentations

Towards the quantification of anatomical changes in head and neck cancer patients

November 12, 2024

Conference talk at Science des données responsable dans le domaine de la santé annual retreat 2024, Trois-Rivières, QC, Canada

Development and evaluation of novel parameters for describing anatomi cal changes and predicting radiotherapy replanning for head and neck cancer patients

July 08, 2024

Poster at XXth International Conference on the use of Computers in Radiation Therapy (ICCR) 2024, Lyon, France

Development of geometrical parameters for characterizing anatomical alterations in head and neck cancer patients and evaluating radiotherapy replannin

June 06, 2024

Conference talk at 70th COMP Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM), Regina, SK, Canada

Development and evaluation of novel parameters for describing anatomical changes and predicting radiotherapy replanning for head and neck cancer patients

May 14, 2024

Conference talk at 3rd annual Celebration of Research and Training in Oncology (CORTO) 2024, Montreal, QC, Canada

Development and evaluation of a novel artificial intelligence model to predict radiotherapy replanning for head and neck cancer

May 01, 2024

Institutional talk at McGill Medical Physics Friday Morning Talk, Montreal, QC, Canada

Development and evaluation of a novel artificial intelligence model to predict radiotherapy replanning for head and neck cancer

October 31, 2023

Conference talk at Scientific Congress 2023 hosted by Association Quebecoise des Physicien(ne)s Medicaux Cliniques (AQPMC), Montreal, QC, Canada

Development and evaluation of a novel artificial intelligence model to predict radiotherapy replanning for head and neck cancer

October 01, 2023

Institutional talk at McGill Medical Physics Friday Morning Talk, Montreal, QC, Canada

Development of an MRI radiomic-based ML model to predict the aggressiveness of prostate cancer

May 06, 2022

Poster at European SocieTy for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO) conference 2022, Copenhagen, Denmark

Teaching

• Teaching Assistant at McGill University
  • Radiotherapy Physics (MDPH602): Winter 2025
  • Radiation Physics (MDPH601): Fall 2024
• Tutoring at Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
  • Linear Algebra (MAT1203): Fall 2022
• Teaching Assistant at Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
  • Precalculus (MAT1000): Fall 2022
  • Calculus 1- Diferential Calculus (MAT1610): Fall 2022 and Summer 2022
  • Dynamics (FIS1514): Spring 2021, Fall 2022
  • Introduction to Mathematics (PIMUB): Fall 2020
  • Calculus 2- Series and Multivariable Diferential Calculus (MAT1620): Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Summer 2020, Fall and Spring 2021
  • Static and Dynamics (FIS1513): Spring 2018
• Laboratory Assistant at Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
  • Laboratory of Electricity and electromagnetism (FIS0153): Spring 2021
  • Laboratory of Calculus 1- Diferential Calculus (MAT1610L): Fall and Spring 2020, Fall 2022
  • Laboratory of Calculus 3- Vector Calculus (MAT1630L): Spring 2019, Fall 2022
  • Laboratory of Diferential Equations (MAT1640L): Spring 2019, Fall 2020
  • Laboratory Calculus 2 - Series and Multivariable Diferential Calculus (MAT1620L): Spring 2018, Spring 2020, Fall and Spring 2021, Fall 2022
• Grader Assistant at Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
  • Calculus 3- Vector Calculus (MAT1630): Fall 2022
  • Electricity and electromagnetism (FIS1533): Fall 2021

Outreach and service

• Judge and Mentor at Physics Hackathon 2024, November 15th - 17th 2024
• Representative in the Equity, Diversity Inclusion (EDI) Subcommittee at the Medical Physics Unit, September 2024 - Present
• Member of the McGill Medical Physics Student Council, September 2024 - Present
• Medical Physics Journal Club Coordinator at McGill Unviersity, September 2024 - Present
• VP Communications the Cancer Research Program Trainee Council within the Research Institute of McGill University Health Centre, September 2024 - Present
• Volunteering at the Physics Outreach Group, September 2024 - Present.
• Social Media Coordinator in the Cancer Research Program Trainee Council within the Research Institute of McGill University Health Centre, October 2023 - August 2024
• Student volunteering in the Laurie Hendren Symposium On Patient-in-the-Loop Data, August 28th 2024
• Judge at Physics Hackathon 2023 November 3rd - 5th 2023
• Fair counselor in Novatas por un día (female first-year students for a day) at PUC, July 2022
• COANIQUEM Burned Center AID for Children Foundation, 2021 - July 2022
• Teleton Chile, October 2021 - December 2021
• Virtual Exposition for future prospective students 2022 at Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, October 2021
• Fundacion Nuestros Hijos October - November 2021
• First-year students welcome at Faculty of Physics Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, January 2018
• Second Version of Scientific Fair at Institute of Physics Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, 2017