Eric Grimson

Bernard Gordon Professor of Medical Engineering

MIT AI Vision Group


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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. He also holds a joint appointment as a Lecturer on Radiology at Harvard Medical School and at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Prof. Grimson currently serves as the Education Officer for the Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. He received a B.Sc. (Hons) in Mathematics and Physics from the University of Regina in 1975 and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from MIT in 1980. Prof. Grimson currently heads the Computer Vision Group of MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, which 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. Recently, his group has been active in applying vision techniques in medicine for image guided surgery and for computational anatomy.