Convocation countdown with…Udbhav Ram
A graduation Q&A about early mentorship from Ben Davis-Purcell, health physics, and representing undergraduates at the UAB–McMaster partnership meeting.
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into my world.
Profiles, conversations, and recordings from research, student exchange, and life beyond the lab. Read a story, hear the work in my own words, or come along for a lap.
A moment
worth flying for.
My UAB supervisors travelled from Alabama to McMaster for a co-op award presentation. The story is also about the exchange, friendships, and student mentorship that grew around the research.
Read the McMaster profileIn print,
in conversation.
Nine article editions and mentions across six story groups. Original and adapted editions appear together; award mentions are labelled separately from interviews.
Udbhav Ram’s co-op supervisors flew in from Alabama to give him an award
McMaster profiles the Science Co-op Student of the Year recognition, the surprise visit by Joel Pogue and Carlos Cardenas, and Udi’s work mentoring students through applications and international placements.
Published March 31, 2026. The Ontario co-op award mentioned in the story was a nomination.
A moment worth flying for – Udbhav Ram’s extraordinary co-op experienceMcMaster Science Careers & Experience Centre · March 18, 2026
Cardenas receives McMaster Co-op Emerging Employer of the Year Award
The mentor-award feature follows the development of Udi’s co-op placement, research collaboration and return to Birmingham for a second placement in 2025.
Recognizing Excellence in Science: 2024 Co-op Employer of the Year AwardsMcMaster Science Careers & Experience Centre · April 3, 2025
EDIC Sessions at the 2024 AAPM Annual Meeting
Heather Whitney’s report names Udi as the undergraduate Best Poster Presentation winner for his Ethos 2.0 high-fidelity stereotactic-radiotherapy project.
A January/February 2025 report of the 2024 competition award.
Undergrad adds ‘international visiting scholar in radiation oncology’ to jam-packed résumé
A profile connecting Udi’s UAB research with earlier experiences in race engineering, biomedical research, software development and science-policy outreach.
International visiting scholar at the University of Alabama at Birmingham the latest of many achievements for McMaster Science undergradMcMaster Faculty of Science · July 30, 2024
International student from McMaster University and mentor drive changes in medicine through AI
UAB explores Udi’s collaboration with Carlos Cardenas on segmentation, planning-system evaluation and AI quality assurance, alongside his undergraduate ambassador role.
The UAB article is dated June 28, 2024; the collaboration showcase video was uploaded that September.
Come along
for a run.
A footage-registered companion to the first Formula LGB 1300 onboard recording from Madras International Circuit, filmed in May 2023.
Clockwise full circuit · estimated from video · FIA outline
Run stategarage
LapNo lap
Video estimateUnavailable
Garage preparation
Session context; the car remains in the garage.
What the recording can support
Visual pace —Audio tone —Cornering —
signals unavailable. Visual pace and whole-recording audio spectrum are normalized descriptors from the 720p source. Cornering is a qualitative inference from the registered circuit geometry—not a wheel measurement or calibrated probability. None are speed, steering angle, RPM, throttle, or brake channels; gaps mean unavailable evidence.
Direct wheel review: not sampled at this frame.
Out lap2:472:38 bridge crossing
Lap 12:205:25 bridge crossing
Lap 22:107:45 bridge crossing
Lap 32:309:55 bridge crossing
Lap 41:34 partial12:25 bridge crossing
One lap, seven visible anchors
The fastest lap is matched to visible sections of the circuit. The marker moves only between reviewed landmarks, never from total video time alone.
Technical frame-to-map ledger
LapVideoLandmarkMap fraction
Calibration and validation frames
16 unused frames · 100% semantic agreement
These reviewed left, right, and straight frames were not used as registration anchors, tiepoints, or wheel labels. All 16 agree with the frozen geometry-derived cornering channel. The separate wheel calibration contains 20 clear windows and two explicitly suppressed helmet occlusions.
Method, limits, and reproducibility
Five passes beneath the same overhead bridge define the out lap, three complete laps, and one partial lap. The drawn centerline follows the sourced FIA diagram and its 17 numbered bends. Repeated visible scenes align each pass to the fully reviewed fastest-lap sequence; intervening bends and straights are time-warped only between adjacent scene matches. The displayed fraction is schematic SVG arclength, not physical distance, GPS, or a surveyed racing line.
No location is drawn from 11:17 through 11:33 while the car is visibly off circuit. The final partial lap becomes unavailable after its last matched Turn 13 exit frame at 13:56. Position never advances from a guessed lap duration.
The other traces are descriptors from the 1280x720 59.94fps public YouTube rendition: stabilized 0.1-second residual optical flow for visual pace, geometry-derived left/right/straight cornering, and whole-recording spectral centroid for audio tone. The audio is not engine-isolated. Twenty direct wheel observations are retained only as a separate calibration record and are not interpolated. None are speed, steering angle, RPM, throttle, or brake channels.
Press play.
Stay curious.
Fifteen public videos, from research presentations to three Formula LGB runs filmed in May 2023 and uploaded in September 2026. Upload dates describe publication, not proof of attendance or delivery.
Preview images are served by this site. Videos connect to YouTube only when you choose “Load video”. Titles and summaries follow the public metadata; these are not full transcript reviews.
15 of 15 videos
run 1 madras international circuit
First onboard run from Udi’s Formula LGB 1300 driving with Momentum Motorsports at Madras International Circuit in May 2023.
Uploaded September 30, 2026
Driven: May 2023
run 2 madras international circuit
Second run from the same May 2023 Formula LGB 1300 driving session at Madras International Circuit.
Uploaded September 30, 2026
Driven: May 2023
run 3 madras international circuit
Third run from the same May 2023 Formula LGB 1300 driving session at Madras International Circuit.
Uploaded September 30, 2026
Driven: May 2023
Back to the future, looking back at an undergraduate research experience with UAB radiation oncology
A retrospective presentation about Udi’s undergraduate research experience with UAB Radiation Oncology.
Uploaded December 19, 2025
Udbhav Ram SPScon 2025 Invited Poster
A recorded overview of the invited SPSCon poster on Ethos 2.0 high-fidelity radiosurgery planning.
Uploaded October 7, 2025
LLM based target name adherence in radiation oncology
A short research presentation on language-model-assisted target-name adherence in radiation oncology.
Uploaded September 9, 2025
Dosimetric Comparison of 6X/10X flattening filter free beams at the Juravinski Cancer Centre
The final thesis presentation comparing 6X and 10X flattening-filter-free beams at Juravinski Cancer Centre.
Uploaded April 17, 2025
Event: April 16, 2025
McMaster and UAB Collaboration Showcase - Udbhav Ram
A short collaboration showcase about Udi’s visiting-scholar experience, AI research and student exchange between UAB and McMaster.
Uploaded September 11, 2024
Optimizing dose delivery during fractionated radiotherapy
A recorded presentation on optimizing dose delivery during fractionated radiotherapy, associated with CUPC 2023.
Uploaded October 29, 2023
Event: October 28, 2023
Using Deep Learning models to auto-contour abdominal organs in CT scans
A talk on deep-learning contouring of abdominal organs, associated with the 2023 Physics Undergraduate Conference.
Uploaded March 24, 2023
Abdominal organs auto-segmentation to reduce patient-wait times in radiation oncology treatments
A CUPC 2022 presentation about automated abdominal-organ segmentation in radiation oncology.
Uploaded October 30, 2022
Event: October 29, 2022
CUMPC 2022 Presentation
A short Canadian Undergraduate Medical Physics Conference presentation on deep-learning abdominal multi-organ segmentation.
Uploaded August 24, 2022
Event: August 25, 2022
An Augmented Reality setup to improve accuracy in the 5/6 nephrectomy surgical model
A Canadian Association of Physicists presentation on an augmented-reality setup for a kidney-research surgical model.
Uploaded June 15, 2022
Event: June 7, 2022
Quantitative analysis of Gel electrophoresis images using cloud based, machine learning analysis
A CAP undergraduate presentation on cloud-based machine-learning analysis of gel-electrophoresis images.
Uploaded June 8, 2022
Event: June 9, 2021
Arduino labs
An early hands-on electronics video with Arduino project ideas.
Uploaded January 12, 2022
Notes from
the workbench.
How computers are saving mice (and maybe humans)
An essay from my earlier research. The original link is preserved; access on Medium may vary.
Building the AAPM 2026 Explorer
A retrospective on an independent conference-program tool, with search and calendar features.
Explore the conference tools →Personal telemetry and useful automations
Small experiments connecting Tessie, Poke, and Notion for alerts and trip summaries.
More everyday building →Around the
community.
Institutional and conference listings offer another view of the work. Undergraduate-era roles are part of the earlier story.
MHIGH Trainee Scholar and McMaster ambassador
The official Trainee Scholars listing details student outreach, information sessions, institutional liaison work and coordination for the McMaster Spring Symposium and UAB–McMaster Summer Program.
Undergraduate-era Trainee Scholar role.
UW–Madison Medical Physics student profile
Official student listing for the current doctoral programme and advisor.
Follow the storyBiography →
Udbhav Ram, BS
Conference biography describing the UW–Madison PhD and research in imaging, vision-language models, treatment planning and image guidance.
2024 Winners
Official winner listing for the employer award received by Carlos Cardenas following Udi’s nomination.
Follow the storyMentorship & exchange →
Selected public sources checked October 6, 2026. This is a curated collection, not an exhaustive record of online mentions. Earlier media archive · YouTube channel