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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.