Baba C. Vemuri
received the PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the
University of Texas at Austin. Currently, he is a Distinguished
University Professor in the Department of Computer and Information
Sciences and Engineering and holds the Wilson and Marie Collins
professorship of Engineering at the University of Florida. He holds
affiliate appointments in the Department of Statistics, ECE and BME at
the University of Florida. His research interests include Geometric
Deep Learning, Geometric Statistics, Medical Image Computing, Computer
Vision, Machine Learning and Information Geometry.
For the last several years, his research work has primarily
focused on statistical analysis of manifold-valued data with
applications to Medical Image Computing and Computer Vision. Along
this theme, he has been developing algorithms for the recursive
computation of statistics on Riemannian manifolds pertinent to
manifold-valued data sets e.g., diffusion magnetic resonance images
(dMRI), manifold of linear subspaces (Grassmann manifold) etc. His
research team has developed novel methods for 3D image segmentation,
unimodal and multimodal image (rigid+nonrigid) registration, nonrigid
registration of 3D point sets, metric learning, dictionary learning
and large margin classifiers. He has published over 200 fully refereed
articles in journals and conference proceedings on: Geometric
Statistics, Medical Image Computing, Computer Vision, Graphics, and
Applied Mathematics. He received the US National Science Foundation
Research Initiation Award (NSF RIA) in 1988 and the Whitaker
Foundation Award in 1994. He has received, several best paper awards
at various International Conferences (including 3 times best poster
presentation award at the biennial International Conf. on Information
Processing in Medical Imaging - IPMI'01,'05 and '21), the IEEE Edward
J McCluskey Technical Achievement Award (2017) for, "pioneering and
sustaining contributions to Computer Vision and Medical Image
Analysis." He is a Fellow of the IEEE (2001) and the ACM (2009). In
2015, he was awarded the Doctoral Dissertation Mentorship Award from
the Herbert Wertheim College of Enginnering at UFL.
He served as a program chair for several conferences including the
11th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2007). He
served as an area chair and a program committee member of several IEEE
conferences. He was an associate editor for several journals,
including the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine
Intelligence --TPAMI, (from 1992 to 1996), the IEEE Transactions on
Medical Imaging -- TMI, (from 1997 to 2003) and the journal of
Computer Vision and Image Understanding (from 2000-2010). He is
currently an associate editor for the Journal of Information Geometry,
Medical Image Analysis (MedIA) and is an honororay board member of the
Intl. Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV).