- Appointed as a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) in 2010
- Honored with the MICCAI Enduring Impact Award in October 2023
- Developed various new image analysis methodologies, especially in nonlinear processing, multi-scale segmentation, and shape analysis, some of which were first and seminal to the field
Research Experience
- 1993-1998: Assistant Professor for Image Data Analysis at BIWI, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH
- 1998-2008: Taylor Grandy Professor of Computer Science and Psychiatry at UNC Chapel Hill
- 2008-2015: School of Computing (SoC) and Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute (SCI) at the University of Utah
- 2015-Present: Department of Computer Science & Engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering
Education
- 1981: Diploma in Life Sciences (MSc degree) from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH
- 1987: Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH
- 1993: Habilitation, Venia Legendi for Multimodal Image Analysis from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH
Background
Research interests include the development of image analysis techniques, particularly in medical image analysis, such as segmentation and object modeling from 3-D image data, shape-based 3-D object representation, and shape analysis. His field is Computer Science and Engineering, with a focus on neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative changes in the human brain.