Curriculum Vitae - Prof. Nassir Navab, Ph.D.
Previous Professional Positions
- July 2016- July 2021: Research Professor at Johns Hopkins University
- July 2013- July 2016: Professor at Johns Hopkins University
- Oct. 2002 – Oct. 2003: Distinguished Member of Technical Staff
- July 1998 - Sept. 2002: Project Leader for Augmented Reality
- Dec. 1997 - June 1998: Senior Member of Technical Staff
- Nov. 1994 - Nov. 1997: Member of Technical Staff, Siemens Corporate Research (SCR)
Education
- Feb. 1993 - Nov. 1994: Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT
Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT Media Laboratory, Perceptual Computing Group
Appointed by MIT, Sponsored by Nichidai Foundation Award, Directed by Prof. A. Bobick - Oct. 1988 - Jan. 1993: PhD at INRIA
Research associate, PhD student
INRIA (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique)
Supervisor: Prof. Olivier D. Faugeras
Thesis Committee: Prof. Thomas Huang, Prof. Giulio Sandini, Prof. Rachid Deriche, Prof. Steve Maybank, Prof. Bernard Dubuisson, Prof. Mark Richetin, Prof. J. Pierre Jouannaud
Degree: "Docteur en Science", University of Paris XI (ORSAY)
With highest distinction: Mention Très Honorable avec la Félicitation du Jury - Oct. 1987 - Sept. 1988: D.E.A de C.D.S, UTC
Systems Control, University of Technology of Compiègne
Research visitor (Feb-Sept): Center for Automation Research
University of Maryland, College Park MD, USA
Supervisor: Prof. Azriel Rosenfeld
Degree: D.E.A. (Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies)
With highest distinction (Très Bien), 1988 Valedictorian - Oct. 1985 - Sept. 1988: Diplôme d’Ingénier, UTC
Computer Engineering Diploma from University of Technology of Compiègne - Oct. 1983 - Sept. 1985: D.E.U.G. A (MP), University of Nice
Diploma of General Study in Mathematics and Physics from, University of Nice
With highest distinction (Très Bien), 1985 Valedictorian
Institutional Responsibilities
- 2019 – Present TUM Academic Lead, Imperial College London-Technical University of Munich (ICLTUM) Joint Academy of Doctoral Studies
- 2018 – Present Sector Lead for Healthcare, Munich School of Robotics and Machine Intelligence
- 2009 – present Founder and Director of Master studies program in Biomedical Computing at Department of Computer Science, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany
Commissions Of Trust
- 2016 – present Scientific Advisory Board, ICCAS, Innovation Center Computer Assisted Surgery, Medical School, Universität Leipzig
- 2018 – present Scientific Advisory Board, Weiss Institute, University College London, Sponsored by Wellcome Trust & ESPRC (13M Pound budget)
- 2015 – present Scientific Advisory Board, Guided Instrumentation for Fetal Surgery and Therapy, Wellcome Trust & ESPRC, University College London (11M Pound)
- 2013 – 2021 Scientific Advisory Board, Institute of Image-Guided Surgery (IHU), France (100M€ budget)
Keynote Speeches
- Plenary Speaker, ISBI 2022, February 2022, India
- Precognition workshop, CVPR 2021, USA
- Medical Computer Vision Workshop, CVPR 2021, USA
- Plenary Speaker, MICCAI 2017, Quebec, Canada
- Hamlyn Symposium, June 2015
- College de France, June 2014
- SPIE Medical 2013
- International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Tsukuba, Japan, Nov. 2012
- Workshop on Biomedical Image Registration (WBIR), Nashville, USA, July 2012
- Reconnaissance des Formes et l'Intelligence Artificielle, France, Jan. 2012.
- Games for Health Europe, Amsterdam, October 24-25, 2011
- Augmented Environments for Computer Assisted Interventions (AE-CAI 2011)
- IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA 2011)
- 6th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC 2010)
- InterMedia: The European Research Network of Excellence (May 2010)
- Congreso Espanol de Informatica Grafica (CEIG 2009)
- 4th International Workshop on Medical Imaging and Augmented Reality
- MICCAI Workshop on Image Guidance and Computer Assistance for Soft-Tissue Interventions
- 9th Mexican Symposium on Computer Aided Surgery and Medical Image Processing / MEXCAS 2008
- Talk at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School on May 12. 2008
- Keynote Speech at MIAR 2008, in Tokyo
- Keynote Speech at IGSTI’08
- Invited talk at National Center for Simulation and UCF's new College of Medicine at University of Central Florida in Orlando, 2008
- Invited Talk at the European Congress of Radiology 2008 in Vienna, Austria
- International Workshop on Vision, Modeling and Visualization (VMV'05), Nov. 2005
- 3rd „Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Computer- und Roboterassistierte Chirurgie (CURAC'04)“, October 2004.
- IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR’03)
- Die Deusche Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Mustererkennung (DAGM 2001)
Selected Publications
- F Milletari, N Navab, SA Ahmadi
V-net: Fully convolutional neural networks for volumetric medical image segmentation
2016 fourth international conference on 3D vision (3DV), 565-571 [5340 citations] - I Laina, C Rupprecht, V Belagiannis, F Tombari, N Navab
Deeper depth prediction with fully convolutional residual networks
2016 Fourth international conference on 3D vision (3DV), 239-248 [1555 citations] - S Hinterstoisser, V Lepetit, S Ilic, S Holzer, G Bradski, K Konolige, N Navab
Model based training, detection and pose estimation of texture-less 3d objects in heavily cluttered scenes, Asian conference on computer vision, 548-562 [1010 citations] - W Kehl, F Manhardt, F Tombari, S Ilic, N Navab
Ssd-6d: Making rgb-based 3d detection and 6d pose estimation great again
Proceedings of the IEEE international conference on computer vision, 1521-1529 [509 citations] - K Tateno, F Tombari, I Laina, N Navab
Cnn-slam: Real-time dense monocular slam with learned depth prediction
Proceedings of the IEEE conference on computer vision and pattern … [603 citations]
Tutorials
- Meta Learning for Medical Image Analysis, MICCAI 2021, Strasbourg
- Medical Augmented Reality, Summer School 2021, Zurich, Switzerland
- Medical Augmented Reality, Summer School 2019, Zurich, Switzerland
- MISS European Summer School, August 2014
- Manifold Learning with Medical Images (MICCAI 2011)
- Intensity-based Deformable Registration (MICCAI 2010)
- ISMAR 2007 Tutorial in Computer Vision for AR: Rigid and Deformable Tracking using Markers or Scene Features, Nara, Japan
- Medical Augmented Reality: state of art, basic technologies and future challenges, Brisbane, Australia, MICCAI 2007
- Réalité augmentée temps reel (RFIA 2004)
Selected Professional Services
- Advisory Board/Associate Editor/Editorial Board
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Medical Image Analysis - Program chair IPMI 2023
Information Processing in Medical Imaging - General Chair MICCAI 2015
International Conf. on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention - Program Board IPCAI 2011- 2022
Information Processing in Computer Assisted Interventions (IPCAI) - Board of Directors (2007-2012, 2014-2016)
Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) Society - Area Chair: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV'10)
- Area Chair: IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'09)
- Area Chair: International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI'09)
- Area Chair: Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV'09)
- Steering Committee: IEEE and ACM Symposiums on Mixed and Augmented Reality (2000-2008
- Program Committee: International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV’07)
- Program Committee: IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR’06, CVPR'07)
- Area Chair IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) 2006
- General Chair IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) 2005
- Steering Committee & Area Chair IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR)
- Scientific Review Committee International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI)
- Co-General Chair International Workshop on Augmented Environment for Medical Imaging and Computer Aided Surgery (AMI_ARCS), October 2006
- Co-General Chair DEFORM'06 - Workshop on Image Registration in Deformable Environments, September 2006
- Program Committee European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
- Program Committee International Fall Workshop on Vision, Modeling, and Visualization (VMV)
- Program Committee Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Computer- und Roboterassistierte Chirurgie (CURAC)
- Guest Editor International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV)
Special issue dedicated to Siemens Corporate Research, to appear in December 2004. - General Chair: IEEE International Symposium on Augmented Reality (ISAR'01)
- Program Chair: IEEE International Symposium on Augmented Reality (ISAR'00)
- Program Committee: International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCIA’03, MICCAI’02)
- Program Committee: International Workshop on Potential Industrial Applications of Mixed and Augmented Reality (PIA'03)
- Program Committee: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV’02)
- Program Committee: International Conference on Pattern Recognition - Medical Imaging (ICPR'02)
- Program Committee: Inter. Symposium on 3D Data Processing Visualization Transmission (3DPVT'02)
- Program Committee: IEEE Workshop on Mathematical Models in Biomedical Image Analysis (MMBIA'01)
- Program Committee: International Symposium on Virtual and Augmented Architecture (VAA'01)
- Program Committee: IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV'00/ WACV'98)
Graduated PhD Students
- Prof. Christian Ruprecht Departmental Lecturer, University of Oxford, Best Paper at CVPR 2020
- Prof. Benjamin Glocker Professor, Imperial College, London, UK
- Christian Wachinger Professor Ludwig Maximilians University, Germany
- Prof. Diana Matheus Full Professor, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France
- Prof. Vasileios Belagiannis Ass. Professor, University of Ulm, Germany
- Prof. Seong Tae Kim Ass. Professor, Kyung Hee University, South Korea
- Prof. Mattias Unberath Ass. Professor, Johns Hopkins University, USA
- Prof. Daniel Roth Ass. Professor, University of Erlangen, Germany
- Prof. Tolga Bridal Lecturer, Imperial College, London, UK
- Dr. Nicolas Padoy Professor Chair of Excellence, University of Strasbourg, France
- Dr. Wolfgang Wein CEO, ImFusion GmbH. Munich, Germany
- Prof. Mingchuan Zhou Ass. Professor, Zhejiang University, Harbin, China
- Dr. Shadi Albarqouni Young Research Group Leader, Helmholtz, Germany
- Dr. Tingying Ping Young Research Group Leader, Helmholtz, Germany
- Dr. Jörg Traub Managing Director, Forum Medtech e. V., Germany
- Dr. Razvan Ionasec CTO Healthcare EMEA at Amazon Web Services (AWS), Germany
- Dr. Selen Atasoy
Research Fellow, Oxford University, UK - Dr. Olivier Pauly
Senior Software Engineer at Intrinsic, an Alphabet company, Germany - Prof. Victor Castaneda
Assistant Professor, Medical School, University of Chile, Chile - Dr. Oliver Kutter
Project manager, Stryker, Germany - Dr. Thomas Wendler
CTO SurgicEye GmbH, Germany - Dr. Arash Taki
Market Development Manager at Covidien, Medtronic, Germany - Dr. Martin Groher
CEO, MicroDIMENSIONS, Germany - Dr. Marco Feuerstein
COO, MicroDIMENSIONS, Germany - Dr. Hauke Heibel
CTO, MicroDIMENSIONS, Germany - Dr. Mirko Appel
Project manager, Innovation, Siemens Healthineers, Germany - Dr. Matthias Mitschke
Project manager, Siemens Healthineers , Germany - Dr. Abouzar Eslami
Project manager, Zeiss MedTech , Germany - Prof. Asad Safi
Professor, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan - Prof. Anabel Martin-Gonzalez
Professor at University of Mérida, Mexico - Prof. Christoph Bichlmeier
Professor at the Hochschule Kempten, Germany - Dr. Tobias Sielhorst
Software Architect @ dSPACEGmbH - Dr. Michael Loser (co-supervision)
Project manager, Siemens Healthcare - Dr. Ruxandra Lasowski
Postdoc within the Statistical geometry processing group Max Planck Institute
PhD/Habilitation Reporter/Examiner
- Selim Ben Himane
INRIA Sophia Antipolis, Thesis Committee, Examiner (December 2006) - Eric Marchand
IRISA/INRIA Rennes, Habilitation Committee, Examiner (November 2004) - Stephane Nicolau
Universite de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, Thesis Committee, Reporter (November 2004) - Luca Vacchetti
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Thesis Committee, Reporter (October 2004) - Sebastian Cornou
l'Universté Blaise Pascal de Clermont-Ferrand, Thesis Committee, Reporter (February 2004) - Robert Hanek
Technische Universität München, Thesis Committee, Reporter(February 2004) - Adrien Bartoli
Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, Thesis Committee, Reporter (September 2003) - Selim Balcisoy
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Thesis Committee, Reporter (June 2001)
Awards
- Member of Akademia Eurpaea (The Academy of Europe), 2022
- Enduring Impact Award, Most prestigious award of MICCAI Society, October 2021
- IEEE Fellow 2022
- 10 Years Lasting Impact Award, IEEE ISMAR, October 2015
- Guest Professorship Award, Balgrist Research Foundation, Zurich, 2017-2020
- Fellow of MICCAI Society, October 4, 2012
- Innovation Award, Society for Medical Innovation and Technology (SMIT), 2010
- Siemens Inventor of the Year 2001
Selected Senior/Co Author Awards
- Ben Glocker: Francois Erbsmann Prize -- IPMI 2007
- Christoph Bichelmeir: Siemens Excellence Award
- Darko Zikic: Siemens Excellence Award
- Tobias Lasser: Siemens Excellence Award
- Mirko Appel: Winner of Commerzbank-Dissertationspreis 2005
- Tobias Blum: IEEE ISMAR 2005 NDI Best Paper Award
- Tobias Sielhorst: IEEE ISMAR 2005 NDI Best Paper Award
- Daniel Ostler, Best Paper Award, IPCAI 2019
- Bastian Beer, IJCARS Special Issue, Best Paper Award, MICCAI 2019
- Bastian Beer, Young Scientist Award, MICCAI 2018
- Sasan Matinfar, Young Scientist Award, MICCAI 2017
- Sailesh Conjeti, Medical Image Analysis, Best Paper Award, MICCAI 2016
- Marco Esposito, IJCARS Special Issue, Best Paper Award, MICCAI 2016
- Benjamin Gutierez Becker: Young Scientist Award, MICCAI 2016
- Christoph Bauer, Best Paper Award, MIAR 2016
- Nicola Rieke: Young Scientist Award, MICCAI 2015
- Sebastien Pöstrel: Winner Prostate Cancer Dream Challenge, 2015
- Alexander Duliu: Best Paper Award, Digital Heritage 2015
- Christian Schulte zu Berge: Best Paper Award, IPCAI 2014
- Oliver Zettinig: Young Scientist Award, MICCAI 2013
- Loren Schwarz: Outstanding Paper Award, IEEE FG, 2011
- Loren Schwarz: Best Paper Award, AMDO 2010
- Sasa Gbric: Young scientist award, MICCAI 2010
- Lejing Wang: Young scientist award, MICCAI 2009
- Nicolas Padoy: Best Paper Award at VOEC Workshop - ICCV 2009
- Thomas Wendler: 1st prize at the international Intel®+UC Berkeley Technology Entrepreneurship Challenge
- Tassilo Klein: Siemens Excellence Award 2008
- Tobias Bum: Siemens Excellence Award 2008
- Stefan Hinterstoisser: Siemens Excellence Award 2008
- Thomas Wendler: DAAD Award 2007
- Wolfgang Wein: MICCAI Award 2007
- Christian Wachinger: Siemens Excellence Award 2007
- Ben Glocker: Siemens Excellence Award 2007
US Patents
See www.uspto.gov for an up to date list of patents.
International Patents
- EP1092210 Device and method for constructing a virtual installation model
- DE10049103 Vorrichtung zur Überlagerung von Röntgen-Videobildern
- DE10030633 Verfahren und Vorrichtung zur dreidimensionalen Rekonstruktion von Röntgenbildern unter Anwendung eines virtuellen Detektors
- DE10047314 Verfahren zur Erzielung eines virtuellen Kontrastmittels für erweiterte Angioskopie
- JP01029342 Method and apparatus using a virtual detector for 3D reconstruction from x-ray images
- JP01149361 Method for providing a virtual contrast agent for augmented angioscopy
- JP01149362 Apparatus for superimposition of X-ray and video