Dr. Guillermo Sapiro

Biography

Guillermo Sapiro was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, and received his B.Sc. (summa cum laude), M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, in 1989, 1991, and 1993, respectively. After completing his post-doctoral research at MIT, he became a Member of the Technical Staff at HP Labs in Palo Alto, California. He held the position of Distinguished McKnight University Professor and the Vincentine Hermes-Luh Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota, was a James B. Duke School Professor at Duke University from 2012 to 2025, and is currently associated with several prestigious programs focused on statistics and computational mathematics. Dr. Sapiro has made significant contributions in the fields of computer vision, computer graphics, medical imaging, and machine learning, having authored or co-authored over 500 papers and a book published by Cambridge University Press. His accolades include multiple awards such as the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award and Presidential Early Career Award, and he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2018 and the National Academy of Engineering in 2022. He is a Fellow of both IEEE and SIAM and served as the founding Editor-in-Chief of the SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences.

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