Template:Autobiography Gabor Tamas Herman is a Hungarian-American professor of computer science. He is Emiritas Professor of Computer Science at The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY) where he was Distinguished Professor until 2017. He is known for his work on computerized tomography. He is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Early life and educationEdit
Herman studied mathematics at the University of London, receiving his B.Sc. in 1963 and M.Sc. in 1964. In 1966, he received his M.S. in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and in 1968 his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of London.<ref name="CUNY faculty page">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
CareerEdit
In 1969, Herman joined the department of computer science at State University of New York at Buffalo 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.<ref name=MIPG>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 1980, he published the first edition of Reconstruction from Projections, his textbook on computerized tomography.<ref name="Herman1980">Template:Cite book</ref>
Herman moved the Medical Image Processing Group to the University of Pennsylvania in 1981.<ref name=MIPG /> He was a professor in the radiology department from 1981 to 2000.<ref name="CUNY faculty page" /> In 1991, he was elected fellow of the IEEE. The citation reads: "For contributions to medical imagine Template:Sic, particularly in the theory and development of techniques for the reconstruction and display of computed tomographic images".<ref name="IEEE fellows">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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."<ref name="AIMBE fellows">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In 2001, Herman joined the faculty of CUNY as Distinguished Professor in the department of computer science,<ref>Template:Cite press release</ref> holding that position until his retirement in 2017.<ref name="CUNY faculty page" /> The second edition of his computerized tomography textbook, now titled Fundamentals of Computerized Tomography, was published in 2009.<ref name="Herman2009">Template:Cite book</ref>
Scientific WorkEdit
Together with Frank Natterer, he initiated in 1980 the series of conferences on "Mathematical Methods in Tomography“<ref name="oberwolfach"/> at the Mathematical Research Institute of Oberwolfach, 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.<ref name="ref9">Superiorization: Theory and Applications, Special Issue of the journal Inverse Problems, Volume 33, Number 4, April 2017</ref>
Awards and honorsEdit
- 1989 Honorary member – American Society of Neuroimaging<ref name="CUNY faculty page" />
- 1991 Fellow - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers<ref name="IEEE fellows" />
- 1996 Fellow – American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering<ref name="AIMBE fellows" />
- 2001 Hewlett Packard Visiting Research Professor, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, California<ref name="CUNY faculty page" />
BibliographyEdit
His books include
- 3D Imaging in Medicine (CRC, 1991 and 2000),<ref name="ref3">Template:Cite book
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- Geometry of Digital Spaces (Birkhauser, 1998),<ref name="ref2">Template:Cite book</ref>
- Discrete Tomography: Foundations, Algorithms and Applications (Birkhauser, 1999),<ref name="ref4">Template:Cite book</ref>
- Advances in Discrete Tomography and Its Applications (Birkhauser, 2007),<ref name="ref5">Template:Cite book
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- Fundamentals of Computerized Tomography: Image Reconstruction from Projections (Springer, 2009) and
- Computational Methods for Three-Dimensional Microscopy Reconstruction (Birkhäuser Basel, 2014).
Personal lifeEdit
Herman is married to artist Marilyn Kirsch.<ref name="Herman2012">Template:Cite book</ref>