Charles Addison Bouman Jr. () is the Showalter Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering at

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, where he has taught since 1989. His research focuses on applications of

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in various contexts, including

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, materials science, and consumer imaging. His work led to the development of the first commercial

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technology to use model-based

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. He is a co-inventor on over fifty patents in the field of consumer imaging. He is a member of the

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, as well as a fellow of the

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, the

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, the

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, and

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. He was formerly the

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of ''

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''. He is the father of

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scientist

Katie Bouman Katherine Louise Bouman (; born 1989) is an American engineer and computer scientist working in the field of Computer-generated imagery, computer imagery. She led the development of an algorithm for imaging black holes, known as CHIRP (algorith ...

Fusing Sensor Models with Machine Learning Models

Bouman is the lead author of what has been described as a "Plug-n-Play" method for fusing sensor models and machine-learning models for joint optimization of the two for the generation of images from noisy and incomplete projection data.

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