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Dorin Comaniciu is Global Technology Head for Image Analytics and Informatics at Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, New Jersey, leading a research team with offices in the US, Germany, Austria, Romania, and China. Between 2004 and 2009 he was the head of the Integrated Data Systems Department. Under his leadership the department has quadrupled in size, by focusing on disruptive and high impact research.
Dorin's scientific interests include medical imaging, cardiac modeling, whole body, image-guided surgery, biomedical informatics, personalized healthcare, computer vision, tracking and motion estimation, information fusion, and content-based access to visual data.
He is a Fellow of the IEEE and Top Innovator of Siemens AG. He holds 88 US patents and has coauthored more than 200 publications in the area of information processing, including best papers in CVPR and MICCAI. His work has 13,000 citations according to Publish or Perish and his H-number is 35. He has been featured in the book Innovative Minds and has given numerous invited talks
Dorin received the 2004 Siemens Inventor of the Year Award, the 2010 IEEE Longuet-Higgins Prize for 'fundamental contributions to computer vision', the 2011 Inventor of the Year Award of the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame for 'robust methods in computer vision and medical imaging', and the 2011 Thomas Alva Edison Award for a patent on heart modeling. He served as the scientific director of Health-e-Child, a biomedical platform granted the 2008 Europe's Information Society Grand Prize. The aortic valve implantation technology his team contributed to Siemens received the 2010 Innovation Award of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. His team's innovations on automated 3D analysis of left ventricle and quantification of 3D color flow Doppler were nominated for the 2011 Young Investigator's Award of the American College of Cardiology and American Society of Echocardiography.
Dorin served on multiple national review boards and as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (2006-2008) and IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (2009-2011).
He graduated from University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School (AMP'11), Rutgers University (PhD'99), and the Polytechnic University of Bucharest (PhD'95, Dipl.-Ing'88).
Recent Papers - 2011
