Curriculum Vitae

Pingkun Yan

Senior Member Research Staff
Philips Research North America
345 Scarborough Rd
Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510
Email: firstname.lastname@philips.com

Research Interests:

Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning, Statistical Image Processing, and Information Theory with their applications to Biomedical Image Analysis and Image Guided Interventions.

Education:

Ph.D.
(2006)

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
National University of Singapore (NUS)
Thesis title: Compression of 4D Medical Image and Spatial Segmentation Using Deformable Models
Advisor: Dr. Ashraf A. Kassim

B.Eng.
(2001)

Department of Electronics Engineering & Information Science
University of Science & Technology of China (USTC)
Thesis title: Digitization of Seismic Magnetic Drawings
Advisor: Dr. Rong Zhang
(Received Excellent Undergraduate Thesis Award, USTC, 2001)

Selected Publications

Patents:

  • A Homographic Framework For The Fusion Of Multi-view Silhouettes,
    S. M. Khan, P. Yan, M. Shah, Patent filed in February, 2008, serial no. 61/026,561.

Honors and Awards:

  • Innovation in Industry Award 2008 Finalist (4 out of 120 candidates), NYAS, for breakthrough technologies to overcome image guidance limitations for prostate cancer diagnosis and therapy.
  • MICCAI 2005 NDI Student Award for the best presentation in Image Segmentation and Analysis at the 8th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Aided Intervention.
  • Research Scholarship, NUS, 2001-2005.
  • Outstanding Graduate of Anhui Province, China, 2001.
  • Outstanding Graduate of USTC, 2001.
  • Excellent Undergraduate Thesis Award, USTC, 2001.
  • Excellent Academic Scholarship, USTC, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000.

Professional Activities

  • Associate Editor of Machine Vision and Applications, 2009-
  • Program Committee Member of IASTED International Conference on Computer Graphics and Imaging (CGIM) 2010.
  • Program Committee Member of Medical Content-based Retrieval for Clinical Decision Support (MCBR-CDS), 2009.
  • Program Committee Member of International Conference on Image and Graphics (ICIG), 2009.
  • Program Committee Member of International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP), 2009.
  • Program Committee Member of IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis (MMBIA), 2008-2009.
  • Program Committee Member of IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2007.
  • Reviewer for NIH Grant Proposals, 2009
  • Reviewer for IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging
  • Reviewer for IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
  • Reviewer for IEEE Trans. Information Technology in Biomedicine
  • Reviewer for IEEE Trans. Biomedical Engineering
  • Reviewer for IEEE Trans. Image Processing
  • Reviewer for IEEE Trans. System, Man and Cybernetics--Part B
  • Reviewer for IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
  • Reviewer for Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics
  • Reviewer for International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology
  • Reviewer for International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence
  • Reviewer for International Journal for Computational Vision and Biomechanics
  • Reviewer for Machine Vision and Applications Journal
  • Reviewer for Medical Image Analysis
  • Reviewer for Pattern Analysis & Applications Journal
  • Reviewer for Pattern Recognition
  • Reviewer for Signal Processing: Image Communication
  • Reviewer for international conferences including MICCAI, ISBI, MIAR, ICPR, ICARCV, ICASSP.

Membership in professional organizations:

  • Full Member of Sigma Xi
  • Member of IEEE
  • Member of MICCAI

Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at its secrets.
                                                                      -- Albert Einstein

Last updated: Oct. 18, 2009.