Polina Golland (born 1971) is an Israeli-American computer scientist specializing in

medical image computing Medical image computing (MIC) is an interdisciplinary field at the intersection of computer science, information engineering, electrical engineering, physics, mathematics and medicine. This field develops computational and mathematical methods fo ...

and biomedical

image analysis Image analysis or imagery analysis is the extraction of meaningful information from images; mainly from digital images by means of digital image processing techniques. Image analysis tasks can be as simple as reading bar coded tags or as sophi ...

. She is Henry Ellis Warren (1894) Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

(MIT), and heads the medical vision group at the

MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) is a research institute at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) formed by the 2003 merger of the Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) and the Artificial Intelligence Lab ...

Education and career

After studying computer science at the

Technion – Israel Institute of Technology The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology ( he, הטכניון – מכון טכנולוגי לישראל) is a public research university located in Haifa, Israel. Established in 1912 under the dominion of the Ottoman Empire, the Technion ...

and earning bachelor's and master's degrees there, Golland went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for doctoral study, earning a Ph.D. in 2001 with the dissertation ''Statistical Shape Analysis Of Anatomical Structures'' supervised by

Eric Grimson William Eric Leifur Grimson (born 1953) is a Canadian-born computer scientist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he served as Chancellor from 2011 to 2014. An expert in computer vision, he headed MIT's Department ...

. She joined the MIT faculty in 2003.

Recognition

Golland was named Henry Ellis Warren (1894) Professor in 2018. She was elected as a Fellow of the

American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) is a non-profit organization founded in 1991, and headquartered in Washington. It represents 50,000 medical and biomedical engineers, and academic institutions, private industry, ...

in 2021, "for outstanding contributions to the development of novel techniques for biomedical image analysis and understanding".

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Golland, Polina 1971 births Living people Israeli computer scientists Israeli women computer scientists American computer scientists American women computer scientists Technion – Israel Institute of Technology alumni Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering