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MICCAI 2026 Area Chair Application Form

We invite all experienced researchers who have been active in past MICCAI conferences to apply. We expect ACs to have typically at least three years of research experience since Ph.D. or equivalent, have attended and reviewed for MICCAI conferences at least three times, and have published at least three MICCAI conference papers as first or last author. Those who have served as ACs for the latest three consecutive MICCAI conferences are not eligible to apply.

If your application is approved, an invitation email will be sent to you via Microsoft CMT in mid-January 2026. Please check your SPAM folder from time to time.
If you have any questions, please contact us at program_chairs@miccai2026.org
1.First Name(Required.)
2.Middle Name
3.Last (Family) Name(Required.)
4.Email address of your TPMS account and your CMT account (Your email address for both accounts MUST BE THE SAME. If they are not, please update your account for one of them.)

MICCAI uses the Microsoft Conference Management Toolkit (CMT) as a submission platform and the Toronto Paper Matching System (TPMS) to match submissions to reviewers and Area Chairs. In order to serve as a MICCAI Area Chair, you must register an account with both CMT and TPMS using the SAME email address.

To create a Microsoft CMT account click here.
To create a TPMS account click here.
To learn more about TPMS click here.(Required.)
5.Institution Email address (if different)
6.Name of your Institution(Required.)
7.Country of your Institution(Required.)
8.Location of your Institution(Required.)
9.Role(Required.)
10.You identify your gender as(Required.)
11.Google Scholar Link or URL of your academic webpage with a list of your publications(Required.)
12.No. Years of Post Ph.D. Experience(Required.)
13.Number of MICCAI conferences attended(Required.)
14.Number of years of MICCAI reviewer experience (Required.)
15.Number of years of MICCAI Area Chair experience(Required.)
16.Number of published papers listed as first or last author(Required.)
17.Number of MICCAI papers listed as first or last author(Required.)
18.List of MICCAI papers for which you were an author in the past five years. Do not include MICCAI workshop papers(Required.)
19.If your experience is with another society of conference series please provide equivalent information
20.Expertise (select all that applies)(Required.)
21.Major area of focus of your work (You can choose more than 1 option)(Required.)
22.Confirm that you have registered and uploaded at least 5 representative papers to the Toronto Paper Matching System (TPMS).

In order to properly match submissions to researchers, TPMS requires at least 5 papers in each researcher's account in order to extract keywords that
properly characterize the expertise of the researcher.

Click here for a tutorial on how to upload papers to TPMS.(Required.)
23.I can commit the necessary time to ensure all duties are performed within the timeline and I agree to comply with the necessary turnaround time.

The tentative review schedule can be found here.(Required.)
24.If chosen as an AC, I understand that my metareview of accepted papers will be made publicly available, but my identity will be concealed.(Required.)
25.I consent to having my information submitted through this form be viewable by MICCAI program chairs.(Required.)
26.I consent to having my information submitted in through this form be passed on to future MICCAI conferences.
27.Is there anything else you would like us to know?