Prof. Robert Minasian (IEEE Life Fellow)
The University of Sydney, Australia
Professor Minasian is a Chair Professor with the School of Electrical and
Information Engineering at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is also
the Founding Director of the Fibre-optics and Photonics Laboratory. His
research has made key contributions to microwave photonic signal processing.
He is recognized as an author of one of the top 1% most highly cited papers
in his field worldwide. Professor Minasian has contributed over 406 research
publications, including Invited Papers in the IEEE Transactions and
Journals. He has 90 Plenary, Keynote and Invited Talks at international
conferences. He has served on numerous technical and steering committees of
international conferences. Professor Minasian was the recipient of the ATERB
Medal for Outstanding Investigator in Telecommunications, awarded by the
Australian Telecommunications and Electronics Research Board. He is a Life
Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (now Optica),
and a Fellow of The Royal Society of NSW.
Prof. Laurent Cohen (IEEE Fellow)
Universite Paris Dauphine, France
Laurent David Cohen was born in 1962. He was student at the Ecole Normale
Superieure, rue d'Ulm in Paris, France. He received the Master's and Ph.D.
degrees in Applied Mathematics from University Paris 6, France, in 1983 and
1986.
He obtained in 1990 a position of Research Scholar with the French National
Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in the Applied Mathematics and Image
Processing group at CEREMADE, Universite Paris Dauphine, Paris, France. His
research interests and teaching at university are applications of Partial
Differential Equations and variational methods to Image Processing and
Computer Vision, like deformable models, minimal paths, geodesic curves,
surface reconstruction, Image segmentation, registration and restoration.
He authored about 300 publications in international Journals and conferences
or book chapters, and 7 patents. He was 2009 laureate of Grand Prix EADS de
l'Academie des Sciences He was promoted IEEE Fellow 2010 for contributions
to computer vision technology for medical imaging. For many years, he has
been editorial member of the Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision,
Medical Image Analysis and Machine Vision and Applications. He was also
member of the program committee for about 60 international conferences.
Prof. Caifeng Shan
Nanjing University, China and Shandong University of Science & Technology, China
Caifeng Shan is a full professor with Nanjing University and Shandong
University of Science & Technology. He was previously a Senior Scientist and
Project Leader with Philips Research, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. He was
also a part-time researcher at Eindhoven University of Technology. His
research interests include computer vision, pattern recognition, medical
image analysis, and related applications. He has authored 150 scientific
papers and 80 patents. He is the recipient of the Invention Award of Royal
Philips, and listed in World's Top 2% Scientists. He has served as Associate
Editor for scientific journals including IEEE Journal of Biomedical and
Health Informatics and IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video
Technology.