Hamid Soltanian-Zadeh
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Hamid Soltanian-Zadeh was born in Yazd
in 1960. He received BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering
: electronics (with honors) from the University of Tehran
, Tehran
, Iran
in 1986 and MSE and PhD degrees in electrical engineering: systems and bio-electrical sciences from the University of Michigan
, Ann Arbor, Michigan
, USA, in 1992. He is currently a full Professor and a founder of Control and Intelligent Processing Center of Excellence (CIPCE) in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran. As a senior scientist and head of medical image analysis group, Prof. Soltanian-Zadeh directs research projects in the Department of Radiology, Henry Ford Health System
, Detroit, Michigan, USA . He has active research collaborations with the Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran, Iran and Wayne State University
, Detroit, MI, USA. His research interests include medical imaging
, signal and image processing
and analysis, pattern recognition
, and neural networks
. He has supervised or advised over 100 MS theses or PhD dissertations and coauthored more than 600 publications in journals and conference records or as book chapters . Several of Prof. Soltanian-Zadeh’s presentations received honorable mention awards at the SPIE and IEEE conferences. In addition to the IEEE, where he is a senior member and chairman of the Iran Section, he is a member of the SPIE, ISMVIP, and ISBME and has served on the scientific committees of several national and international conferences and review boards of more than 30 scientific journals. Prof. Soltanian-Zadeh is an associate member of the Iranian Academy of Sciences, president of the Iranian Society of Machine Vision and Image Processing (ISMVIP), has been recognized as an outstanding researcher by the national and international organizations, and has served on the study sections of the National Institutes of Health
(NIH), National Science Foundation
(NSF), American Institute of Biological Sciences
(AIBS), and international funding agencies.
Yazd
Yazd is the capital of Yazd Province in Iran, and a centre of Zoroastrian culture. The city is located some 175 miles southeast of Isfahan. At the 2006 census, the population was 423,006, in 114,716 families....
in 1960. He received BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering
Electrical engineering
Electrical engineering is a field of engineering that generally deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics and electromagnetism. The field first became an identifiable occupation in the late nineteenth century after commercialization of the electric telegraph and electrical...
: electronics (with honors) from the University of Tehran
University of Tehran
The University of Tehran , also known as Tehran University and UT, is Iran's oldest university. Located in Tehran, the university is among the most prestigious in the country, and is consistently selected as the first choice of many applicants in the annual nationwide entrance exam for top Iranian...
, Tehran
Tehran
Tehran , sometimes spelled Teheran, is the capital of Iran and Tehran Province. With an estimated population of 8,429,807; it is also Iran's largest urban area and city, one of the largest cities in Western Asia, and is the world's 19th largest city.In the 20th century, Tehran was subject to...
, Iran
Iran
Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
in 1986 and MSE and PhD degrees in electrical engineering: systems and bio-electrical sciences from the University of Michigan
University of Michigan
The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Michigan
Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....
, USA, in 1992. He is currently a full Professor and a founder of Control and Intelligent Processing Center of Excellence (CIPCE) in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran. As a senior scientist and head of medical image analysis group, Prof. Soltanian-Zadeh directs research projects in the Department of Radiology, Henry Ford Health System
Henry Ford Health System
The Henry Ford Health System is a comprehensive, integrated, non-profit, managed care, health care organization located in Southeast Michigan. The corporate office is in Detroit, Michigan...
, Detroit, Michigan, USA . He has active research collaborations with the Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran, Iran and Wayne State University
Wayne State University
Wayne State University is a public research university located in Detroit, Michigan, United States, in the city's Midtown Cultural Center Historic District. Founded in 1868, WSU consists of 13 schools and colleges offering more than 400 major subject areas to over 32,000 graduate and...
, Detroit, MI, USA. His research interests include medical imaging
Medical imaging
Medical imaging is the technique and process used to create images of the human body for clinical purposes or medical science...
, signal and image processing
Image processing
In electrical engineering and computer science, image processing is any form of signal processing for which the input is an image, such as a photograph or video frame; the output of image processing may be either an image or, a set of characteristics or parameters related to the image...
and analysis, pattern recognition
Pattern recognition
In machine learning, pattern recognition is the assignment of some sort of output value to a given input value , according to some specific algorithm. An example of pattern recognition is classification, which attempts to assign each input value to one of a given set of classes...
, and neural networks
Neural Networks
Neural Networks is the official journal of the three oldest societies dedicated to research in neural networks: International Neural Network Society, European Neural Network Society and Japanese Neural Network Society, published by Elsevier...
. He has supervised or advised over 100 MS theses or PhD dissertations and coauthored more than 600 publications in journals and conference records or as book chapters . Several of Prof. Soltanian-Zadeh’s presentations received honorable mention awards at the SPIE and IEEE conferences. In addition to the IEEE, where he is a senior member and chairman of the Iran Section, he is a member of the SPIE, ISMVIP, and ISBME and has served on the scientific committees of several national and international conferences and review boards of more than 30 scientific journals. Prof. Soltanian-Zadeh is an associate member of the Iranian Academy of Sciences, president of the Iranian Society of Machine Vision and Image Processing (ISMVIP), has been recognized as an outstanding researcher by the national and international organizations, and has served on the study sections of the National Institutes of Health
National Institutes of Health
The National Institutes of Health are an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and are the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and health-related research. Its science and engineering counterpart is the National Science Foundation...
(NIH), National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National Institutes of Health...
(NSF), American Institute of Biological Sciences
American Institute of Biological Sciences
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(AIBS), and international funding agencies.
See also
- List of contemporary Iranian scientists, scholars, and engineers
- List of University of Tehran people