Eric Grimson
Bernard Gordon Professor of
Medical Engineering
Head, Department of Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science
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Background
and Brief Bio:
Eric Grimson is a Professor of Computer Science and
Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and holds the
Bernard Gordon Chair of Medical Engineering at MIT. He also holds a joint
appointment as a Lecturer on Radiology at Harvard Medical
School and at Brigham
and Women's Hospital. Prof. Grimson has previously served as the Education
Officer for the Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT,
and as Associate Department Head. Since 2005, he has been serving as the
Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He
received a B.Sc. (High Honors) in Mathematics and Physics from the University of Regina in 1975 and a Ph.D. in
Mathematics from MIT in 1980. Prof. Grimson is a member of MIT's Computer
Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and his group has pioneered
state of the art systems for activity and behavior recognition, object and
person recognition, image database indexing, image guided surgery, site
modeling and many other areas of computer vision. Prof. Grimson is a Fellow
of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), a
Fellow of the IEEE, and was awarded the Bose Award for Excellence in Teaching
in the School
of Engineering at MIT.
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