René Vidal elected to the AIMBE College of Fellows
René Vidal, the Herschel
L. Seder Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, has been
elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering’s
College of Fellows.
AIMBE Fellows are considered the most distinguished and accomplished leaders in
the fields of medical and biological engineering, and are chosen for making
contributions to those fields that have the potential to change the world. René
was recognized for outstanding contributions to medical image analysis and
medical robotics.
René joined Johns Hopkins in 2004. He holds joint appointments in the
departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science, and
Mechanical Engineering. He is the director of the Mathematical Institute for
Data Science and the Vision Dynamics and Learning Lab, and is also a professor
in the Institute for Computational Medicine, the Center for Imaging Science,
and the Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics.
René’s research focuses on the development of theory and algorithms for the
analysis of complex high-dimensional datasets such as images, videos,
time-series and biomedical data. His lab creates new technologies for a variety
of biomedical applications, including detection, classification, and tracking
of blood cells in holographic images, classification of embryonic
cardio-myocytes in optical images, and assessment of surgical skill in surgical
videos.