Julio Silva-Rodríguez

AI researcher specializing in computer vision and medical image computing. Currently developing foundation models tailored for medical imaging — exploring few-shot, parameter-efficient adaptation and uncertainty quantification. Passionate about building scalable, real-world AI systems that push the boundaries of healthcare and imaging.

• Machine Learning & Computer Vision: Foundation models, vision-language models, few-shot learning, parameter-efficient fine-tuning, conformal prediction.
• Medical Image Computing: Histopathology (WSIs), chest X-rays, retinal imaging, CT, MRI.

I'm always open to new collaborations — drop me an email!

• [10/25] 🆕 I am starting a postdoc position at the BMIC Lab, at ETH Zurich.
• [07/25] I will participate in two MICCAI'25 tutorials: UQinMIA (how to apply conformal prediction to medical vision-language models) and FMLLM (foundation models for medical image segmentation).
• [06/25] We will be presenting 3 papers at MICCAI'25 (see below for more info).
• [05/25] One paper early-accepted at MICCAI'25 - see you in Daejeon!
• [02/25] Our work on conformal prediction for VLMs has been accepted at CVPR'25.
• [02/25] We got two papers accepted at IPMI'25 on medical VLMs! 🎉 .
• [01/25] FLAIR, the first VLM for fundus images has finally been published at MedIA 📜 .
• [05/24] Two papers accepted at MICCAI'24! 🎉 .
• [03/24] Our work on few-shot CLIP adaptation is accepted to CVPR'24.
• [08/23] Our paper about few-shot fine-tuning is accepted to MICCAI-MedAGI 2023.
• [04/23] I have been awarded with the Postdoctoral Merit Scholarship for Foreign Students (PBEEE) from the Fonds de recherche du Québec (FRQ)! 💰
• [01/23] I started working as a Postdoctoral Fellow at ÉTS Montréal 🛫 .
• [10/22] I defended my PhD Thesis on not-so-supervised learning on medical imaging 🎓 .
• [06/22] Our paper about unsupervised brain lesion segmentation is accepted to MedIA 📜 .
• [06/21] Our paper about weakly supervised WSI grading is accepted to JBHI 📜 .
• [06/20] Our article on prostate histology grading - SICAPv2 dataset - is accepted at CMPB.
• [09/19] I have been awarded with a 4-years PhD research personnel training grant (FPI) from the Spanish Goverment 💰 .
• [09/19] Started my PhD studies under supervision of Prof. Valery Naranjo.