Professor Rivaz is the Research Chair in Medical Imaging with Deep Learning. He received his BSc from Sharif University, Master’s from UBC, and PhD from Johns Hopkins University, followed by postdoctoral training at McGill University. He was elected to the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) in 2025, named the Rising Star in Bio-Imaging in Quebec in 2022, and won the Petro-Canada Young Innovator Award in 2016. He is the Director of the IMPACT Lab, and has been an Associate Editor of:
- IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI, since 2017)
- Medical Image Analysis (MedIA, since 2025)
- IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control (TUFFC, since 2018)
- IEEE OJEMB (2021-2024)
He served as an Area Chair of MICCAI from 2017 to 2024, and for IPCAI in 2022. He was a member of the Organizing Committee of IEEE EMBC 2020, ISBI 2021, and IEEE IUS 2023. He co-organized tutorials on advances in ultrasound imaging at IEEE ISBI 2019 and ISBI 2018. He co-organized the CURIOUS 2018, CURIOUS 2019 and CuRIOUS-SEG 2022 Challenges on registration of ultrasound and MRI in neurosurgery, and the CereVis 2018 Workshop, all in conjunction with MICCAI.