Gabor Tamas Herman is a Hungarian-American professor of computer science. He is Emiritas Professor of Computer Science at The Graduate Center,

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(CUNY) where he was Distinguished Professor until 2017. He is known for his work on

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. He is a fellow of the

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(IEEE).

Early life and education

Herman studied mathematics at the

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, receiving his B.Sc. in 1963 and M.Sc. in 1964. In 1966 he received his M.S. in electrical engineering from the

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, and in 1968 his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of London.

Career

In 1969 Herman joined the department of computer science at

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as an assistant professor. He became an associate professor in 1970 and a full professor in 1974. In 1976 he formed the Medical Image Processing Group. In 1980 he published the first edition of ''Reconstruction from Projections'', his textbook on computerized tomography. Herman moved the Medical Image Processing Group to the

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in 1981. He was a professor in the radiology department from 1981 to 2000. In 1991 he was elected fellow of the IEEE. The citation reads: "For contributions to medical imagine, particularly in the theory and development of techniques for the reconstruction and display of computed tomographic images". In 1997 he was elected fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. The citation reads: "For development implementation and evaluation of methods of reconstruction and 3D display of human organs based on transmitted or emitted radiation." In 2001 Herman joined the faculty of CUNY as Distinguished Professor in the department of computer science, holding that position until his retirement in 2017. The second edition of his computerized tomography textbook, now titled ''Fundamentals of Computerized Tomography'', was published in 2009.

Scientific Work

Together with Frank Natterer, he initiated in 1980 the series of conferences on "Mathematical Methods in Tomography“ at the

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, Germany. During 1992-4 he was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. In recent years he has been involved with research on the superiorization methodology.Superiorization: Theory and Applications, Special Issue of the journal Inverse Problems, Volume 33, Number 4, April 2017

Awards and honors

* 1989 Honorary member – American Society of Neuroimaging * 1991 Fellow - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers * 1996 Fellow – American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering * 2001 Hewlett Packard Visiting Research Professor, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, California

Bibliography

His books include *3D Imaging in Medicine (CRC, 1991 and 2000), *Geometry of Digital Spaces (Birkhauser, 1998), *Discrete Tomography: Foundations, Algorithms and Applications (Birkhauser, 1999), *Advances in Discrete Tomography and Its Applications (Birkhauser, 2007), *Fundamentals of Computerized Tomography: Image Reconstruction from Projections (Springer, 2009) and *Computational Methods for Three-Dimensional Microscopy Reconstruction (Birkhäuser Basel, 2014).

Personal life

Herman is married to artist

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References

External links

Faculty website
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