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 photonics, and he is
internationally renowned as a world leader in the field of 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
418 research publications, including Invited Papers in the IEEE Transactions
and Journals. He has over 100 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, awarded by the
Australian Telecommunications and Electronics Research Board. He is a Life
Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences, 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.