Presenter

Allen Robert Tannenbaum is an applied mathematician and Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics & Statistics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He has held a number of other positions including the Bunn Professorship of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Interim Chair, and Senior Scientist at the Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Alabama, Birmingham. He received his Ph.D. with thesis advisor Heisuke Hironaka at the Harvard University in 1976. Dr. Tannenbaum's research focuses on medical image analysis and computer vision, among other distinguished accomplishments in the fields of image processing, systems and control, controlled active vision, mathematical systems theory, bioinformatics, and computer graphics.