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