Sierra Bonilla

News

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  Paper Accepted; NeurIPS Meta-Agents Workshop 2026

  “A Case Study in Assuring AI-Written Software” accepted as a poster. 11 December 2026, Sydney.

  Workshop site
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  Tangent App; Public TestFlight Beta

  Our hackathon app is out on TestFlight — and I wrote my first blog post ever.

  TestFlight beta Medium article
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  Organizing Workshop; ECCV DCA-MI Workshop 2026

  Co-organizing the 2nd edition at ECCV 2026 (1st edition at CVPR 2024). 8–9 September 2026.

  Workshop site
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  iMED Challenge; MICCAI EndoVis Workshop 2026

  Co-organizing the multi-endoscope surgical 3D perception challenge. Challenge day 27 September 2026.

  Challenge site EndoVis
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  iMED Presenting; MICCAI COLAS Workshop 2026

  Presenting “iMED: A Multi-Endoscope Dataset for Surgical 3D Perception.” 27 September 2026, Strasbourg.

  COLAS 2026

Publications

1. A Case Study in Assuring AI-Written Software Accepted to NeurIPS 2026 Meta-Agents Workshop
2. iMED: A Multi-Endoscope Dataset for Surgical 3D Perception Accepted to ECCV 2026
3. Track2Map: Online Deformable SLAM with Motion-Aware Pose Optimization in Robotic Surgery Accepted to MICCAI 2026
4. LumenGSLAM: online physically based rendering with Gaussian Splatting for robust endoscopic reconstruction and tracking IJCARS · IPCAI 2026 · 13 May 2026
5. HyKey: hyperspectral keypoint detection and matching in minimally invasive surgery IJCARS · IPCAI 2026 · 27 April 2026
6. Mismatched: Evaluating the limits of image matching approaches and benchmarks ECCV workshops (LNCS) · ECCV 2024 · 12 May 2025
7. Robotic arm platform for multi-view image acquisition and 3d reconstruction in minimally invasive surgery IEEE RAL · IROS 2025 · 4 April 2025
8. Gaussian pancakes: geometrically-regularized 3d gaussian splatting for realistic endoscopic reconstruction MICCAI 2024 (LNCS) · MICCAI 2024 · 3 October 2024
9. Microbubble-enhanced heating: Exploring the effect of microbubble concentration and pressure amplitude on high-intensity focused ultrasound treatments Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology · — · August 2021

Previously…

• Computer Vision Scientist Intern, SPAICE.
• Teaching assistant (PGTA) for three MSc modules, including Robot Navigation and Object Detection, UCL.
• AI Research Intern, Intuitive Surgical, Sunnyvale, California.
• Computer Scientist, University College London Hospitals (UCLH).
• Education: MSc Biomedical Engineering with Distinction (UCL); BSc Bioengineering with Departmental Honors and minor in Mathematics (University of Washington).