Dr. Annika Reinke
Dr. Annika Reinke is Deputy Head of the Intelligent Medical Systems Division at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), where she leads the Validation of Intelligent Systems group. Her research focuses on identifying and eliminating fundamental flaws in the validation of biomedical image analysis algorithms. Through her work, Dr. Reinke addresses societally and clinically relevant challenges in medical AI, aiming to improve the robustness, comparability, and real-world relevance of validation pipelines. She plays a leading role in the international community, serving as Secretary of the MICCAI Special Interest Group on Biomedical Challenges and as Chair of the MONAI Working Group on Evaluation and Benchmarking, among others. Her contributions have been recognized with several prestigious awards, including the Hector Foundation Award and the Ritzenhain Doctoral Prize.