Guillermo Sapiro
was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, on April 3, 1966. He received his B.Sc. (summa cum laude), M.Sc., and Ph.D. from the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, in 1989, 1991, and 1993 respectively. After post-doctoral research at MIT, Dr. Sapiro became Member of Technical Staff at the research facilities of HP Labs in Palo Alto, California.
Professor Sapiro works on differential geometry and geometric partial differential equations, both in theory and applications in computer vision, computer graphics, medical imaging, and image analysis. He co-edited a special issue of IEEE Image Processing on this topic and a second one in the Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation.
He has authored and co-authored numerous papers in this area and has written a monograph published by Cambridge University Press, January 2001.
G. Sapiro was awarded the Gutwirth Scholarship for Special
Excellence in Graduate Studies in 1991, the Ollendorff Fellowship for Excellence in Vision and Image Understanding Work in 1992, the Rothschild Fellowship for Post-Doctoral Studies in 1993, the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award in 1998, the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientist and Engineers (PECASE) in 1998, the National Science Foundation Career Award in 1999, and the George Taylor Research Award in 2006.
G. Sapiro is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences.
Personal Homepage:
http://www.ece.umn.edu/people/faculty/directory.shtml?userID=guille
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