Short 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 is a
Senior Member of IEEE and a
Senior member
of ACM.
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 two proceedings. His group contributes open
source software, including Insight Journal publications:
MATITK ,
nD-SIFT,
ITK-DefOrgs,
ITK on iOS,
FastRW,
LiveVessel,
VascuSynth,
PerceptVis, and others.
Dr. Hamarneh has been invited to talk and give lectures at several
universities and companies worldwide including
MIT, YU,
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. He is organizing the
Banff
workshop on Geometry for Anatomy in
2011.
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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