Biography

Since 2009, Dr. Hamarneh has been an Associate Professor at Simon Fraser University (School of Computing Science). Dr. Hamarneh was a visiting professor at INRIA and Ecole Central Paris (GALEN team) during his sabbatical (June 2010-June 2011). Before being appointed as an Assistant Professor (2003-2009) at SFU, Dr. Hamarneh was a postdoctoral fellow at the Hospital for Sick Children (Mouse Imaging Centre) and the University of Toronto (Dept. Medical Biophysics) (2001-2003). He completed his doctoral studies (2001) at Chalmers University of Technology (Dept. Signals and Systems) and, as a pre-doctoral research fellow (2000-2001), at the University of Toronto (Dept. Computer Science). He received his Master's degree with distinction in digital communications from Chalmers University (1997) and Bachelor's degree from Jordan University (Dept. Electrical Engineering) (1995). Prior to graduate studies, he worked as an R&D engineer at SEDCO (Systems and Electronics Development Co.) (1995), Queen Alia International Airport (Royal Jordanian Airlines), and Rostock University (Institut för Technische Informatik) (1994).

Dr. Hamarneh has been a Senior  Member of IEEE and a Senior member of ACM since 2010.

Dr. Hamarneh's primary research interest is in medical image analysis. Dr. Hamarneh co-founded (2003) and co-directs the Medical Image Analysis Lab (MIAL) at SFU.  He has over 100 publications in top international conferences, including MICCAI, ICCV, CVPR, ECCV, and ISBI,  and journals, including MedIA, IEEE TMI, IEEE PAMI, IEEE TIP,  IEEE TVCG,  JMIV, and Academic Radiology. He is the primary author of 3 book chapters (published by Springer, Wiley, and CRC) and the co-editor of three proceedings. His group contributes MIA software,  including open source Insight Journal publications: MATITK , nD-SIFT, ITK-DefOrgs, ITK on iOS, FastRW, LiveVessel, VascuSynth, PerceptVis, TongueTrack, DeformIt, and others.

Dr. Hamarneh has been invited to talk and give lectures at several universities and companies worldwide including MIT, NYU, INRIA, Philips, Siemens, and others. He was the keynote speaker at the SCIA 2011. Dr. Hamarneh's groups attracted funding from several sources including NSERC, CIHR, CFI, MSFHR, MITACS, QNRF and other national and international hospitals and companies.

Dr. Hamarneh's work has received numerous distinctions including 4 best papers, top accessed papers, 2 among best papers, and others. His work was featured on a journal cover, on the front page of the Vancouver Sun, in IEEE Intelligent Systems In the News, ACM Tech News, and others. He was also awarded an outstanding reviewer in CVPR 2008.

Dr. Hamarneh co-chaired and co-organized the first MICCAI workshop on functional medical image analysis (2008) and a Banff workshop on Mathematical Methods for MIA (2007), attracting more than 30 world-class researchers. In 2011,  he led the organization of another successful Banff workshop on Geometry for Anatomy.

Dr. Hamarneh serves as a program committee and review committee member for several conferences including MICCAI, IPMI, CVPR, ICCV, and MMBIA, and reviewed for international journals including  MedIA, IEEE TMI, PAMI, BME, TIP, TSP, NeuroImage, and CVIU.  Dr. Hamarneh served on the  editorial board the journal of Image and Vision Computing. He also acts as a reviewer for Canadian and international funding agencies, .e.g NSERC, CIHR, MITACS, BIRS, and others.

Dr. Hamarneh develops and teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in medical image analysis and biomedical computing and supervises several PhD and MSc students.

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