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Aly Farag, PhD: received the bachelor degree from Cairo University, Egypt and the PhD in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University. He also holds masters’ degrees in biomedical engineering from the Ohio State University and the University of Michigan. Currently, he is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and founding director of the Computer Vision and Image Processing Laboratory (CVIP-Lab) focusing on research and teaching in the domains of computer vision, biometrics and biomedical imaging. He has introduced 10 courses into the ECE curriculum, authored over 350 technical papers, edited two volumes on Deformable Models for Biomedical Applications (Springer 2007), and authored the textbook Biomedical Image Analysis: Variational and Statistical Approaches (Cambridge University Press, 2014). During the past two decades, Dr. Farag has been principal investigator of a number of major projects funded by the NSF, DoD, NIH, and various federal and industrial organizations in the United States. He graduated 34 MS and 26 PhD students, and mentored more than 20 postdoctoral researchers. He holds five US patents on object modeling, computer-aided diagnosis, and visualization. He is a regular reviewer to NSF, NIH, NASA, and Research Counsel of Canada, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Science Foundation of Ireland and the Qatar National Research Fund. Dr. Farag served as associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (2000-2004), the IET-Computer Vision (2008-Present). He has been the lead editor of the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (IEEE-TIFS) special issue of Face Recognition in the Wild (December 2014). He is a regular reviewer to IEEE-PAMI, IEEE-TMI, IEEE-TIP, IEEE-CVPR, IEEE-ICCV, and has chaired several sessions at IEEE-ICIP, IEEE-ISBI, and IEEE-ICPR. He was co-general chair of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP-2009). He is recipient of the University of Louisville Research (1999), Tom Murray Teaching (2008), and The Trustees (2015) Awards. In 2002, he was appointed as university scholar. Dr. Farag is a member of AAAS, RSNA and MICCAI, and Fellow of the IEEE and IAPR.

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Dr. Farag’ s CV (March 2017)
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Mike Miller is a research engineer with  the CVIP Lab.  He received his Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Louisville, and brings several years of industry experience in design of computer products for Texas Instruments and VeriFone Inc. His experience includes Vision Aided testing design and algorithms,  ASIC design, Notebook Computer Design,  and Printer Design technology.  He also worked in Design of Secure Banking terminals. In the CVIP Lab he has been involved  with various computer vision projects, including autonomous mobility, multimodality object scanning, and  integrated biometrics project; overseeing various outreach activities at the CVIP Lab and provides assistance with research compliance and university regulations. In addition, he provides assistance in maintenance of the laboratory facilities  and supervises various co-op activities at the Lab. Miller’ s CV

Chuck Sites is a University of Louisville staff member for the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. He received a Bachelor degree in Physics from the University of Louisville in 1990. He has over twenty five years of experience in the computer and electronics industry. He manages the computer systems and networks of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and is the System Administrator and Technical Advisor for the CVIP Laboratory. He has been investigator with the Lab since 1996 where he actively participated in developing various 3D object reconstruction methods, the Lab surgical simulation system, and the CardEye active vision platform. He has been involved in various university-wide agendas for computing and networking and was a co-investigator in the NSF vBNS networking proposal which lead to advancing the networking infrastructure at the University of Louisville. He is a catalyst in various outreach projects at the CVIP Lab, including  the Mummy project that has been featured at the Louisville Science Center in February 2008.

Salwa Elshazly holds bachelor degree in Biology and a postgraduate two-year computer science degree. She has over 20 years of experience in data analysis and machine learning as related to cancer, epidemiology, and assessment of technology on healthcare delivery and quality of life in a modern society. During the past 10 years, she has been with the CVIP Lab as a Research Assistant I and co-investigator on various projects dealing with biomedical data analysis. She has been actively involved with the lung cancer screening project, demographic studies as related to colon cancer, traumatic brain injury and various other imaging-based studies. She is an entrepreneur with focus on  imaging technology as applied to education, environment, security and healthcare.