Hamid Soltanian-Zadeh ( fa, حمید سلطانیان زاده) is an Iranian biomedical engineer. He was born in

Yazd Yazd ( fa, یزد ), formerly also known as Yezd, is the capital of Yazd Province, Iran. The city is located southeast of Isfahan. At the 2016 census, the population was 1,138,533. Since 2017, the historical city of Yazd is recognized as a Worl ...

in 1960.

Education

He received BS and MS degrees in

electrical engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

: electronics (with honors) from the

University of Tehran The University of Tehran (Tehran University or UT, fa, دانشگاه تهران) is the most prominent university located in Tehran, Iran. Based on its historical, socio-cultural, and political pedigree, as well as its research and teaching pro ...

Tehran Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most popul ...

, Iran in 1986 and MSE and PhD degrees in electrical engineering: systems and bio-electrical sciences from the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

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, USA, in 1992.

Career

He is currently a

full Professor Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin as a "person who professes". Professors ...

and a founder of Control and Intelligent Processing Center of Excellence (CIPCE) in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran. As a senior scientist and head of

medical image analysis Medical image computing (MIC) is an interdisciplinary field at the intersection of computer science, information engineering Information engineering is the engineering discipline that deals with the generation, distribution, analysis, and use ...

group, Prof. Soltanian-Zadeh directs research projects in the Department of Radiology, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan, USA. He has active research collaborations with the Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran, Iran and

Wayne State University Wayne State University (WSU) is a public research university in Detroit, Michigan. It is Michigan's third-largest university. Founded in 1868, Wayne State consists of 13 schools and colleges offering approximately 350 programs to nearly 25,000 ...

, Detroit, MI, USA. His research interests include

medical imaging Medical imaging is the technique and process of imaging the interior of a body for clinical analysis and medical intervention, as well as visual representation of the function of some organs or tissues (physiology). Medical imaging seeks to rev ...

, signal and

image processing An image is a visual representation of something. It can be two-dimensional, three-dimensional, or somehow otherwise feed into the visual system to convey information. An image can be an artifact, such as a photograph or other two-dimensiona ...

and analysis, pattern recognition, and

neural networks A neural network is a network or circuit of biological neurons, or, in a modern sense, an artificial neural network, composed of artificial neurons or nodes. Thus, a neural network is either a biological neural network, made up of biological ...

. He has supervised or advised over 100 MS theses or PhD dissertations and coauthored more than 600 publications in journals and conference records or as book chapters. Several of Prof. Soltanian-Zadeh's presentations received honorable mention awards at the SPIE and

IEEE The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operation ...

conferences.

Affiliations

In addition to the IEEE, where he is a senior member and chairman of the Iran Section, he is a member of the SPIE, ISMVIP, and ISBME and has served on the scientific committees of several national and international conferences and review boards of more than 30 scientific journals. Prof. Soltanian-Zadeh is an associate member of the Iranian Academy of Sciences, president of the Iranian Society of Machine Vision and Image Processing (ISMVIP), has been recognized as an outstanding researcher by the national and international organizations, and has served on the study sections of the

National Institutes of Health The National Institutes of Health, commonly referred to as NIH (with each letter pronounced individually), is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research. It was founded in the late ...

(NIH),

National Science Foundation The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National I ...

(NSF),

American Institute of Biological Sciences The American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) is a nonprofit scientific charity. The organization’s mission is to promote the use of science to inform decision-making and advance biology for the benefit of science and society. Overvie ...

(AIBS), and international funding agencies.

References

External links

Prof. Hamid Soltanian-Zadeh's official homepage at Henry Ford Health System
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Soltanian-Zadeh, Hamid Academic staff of the University of Tehran University of Tehran alumni Iranian electrical engineers Living people 1960 births University of Michigan College of Engineering alumni

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