Biography
Daniel Racoceanu is a Professor in Biomedical Imaging and Data Computing at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. Since 2016, he has a tenured Professor position at Sorbonne Université since 2011. His areas of competency are Medical Image Analysis, Pattern Recognition, and Machine Learning with his present research being mainly focused on Digital Pathology and its Integrative aspects. He has completed Dr.Habil. (2006) and PhD (1997) at University of Franche-Comté, France. He was Project Manager at General Electric Energy Products - Europe, before joining, in 1999, as a Associate Professor at the University of Franche-Comté and Research Fellow at FEMTO-ST Institute (French National Research Center - CNRS), Besancon, France. Between 2014 and 2016, he was a member of the Executive Board of the University Institute of Health Engineering of the Sorbonne Université, Paris. During the same period, he lead the Cancer Theranostics research team at the Bioimaging Lab, a joint research unit created between Sorbonne Université, CNRS and INSERM (French National Institute of Health and Medical Research). He participated in the creation of International Joint Research Unit (UMI CNRS) in Singapore, being the Director (from 2008 to 2014) of this joint research venture between the Sorbonne Université (SU), the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), the National University of Singapore (NUS), the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), and the Univ. Grenoble Alpes (UGA), in Singapore. From 2009 to 2015, he was Full Professor (adj.) at the School of Computing, National University of Singapore (NUS).
Research Interest
Biomedical Imaging and Data Computing
Biography
Manuel F. M. Costa hold a PhD degree in Science (Physics) from the University of Minho (Portugal) where he works since 1985 at its Physics Department teaching and performing applied research in optical metrology, applied optics, thin films and nanoscience, optometry and science education and literacy. Presented over three hundred communications in international meetings and published around the same number of scientific papers, monographs and books. Editor or member of the editorial board of several scientific and educational international journals. Chairperson on nineteen international conferences. Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of EOS, member of the Board of the Iberoamerican Optics Network and member of the Board of Stakeholders of PHOTONICS’21. President of the Hands-on Science Network, of the Portuguese Territorial Committee of the International Commission for Optics and of the Portuguese Society for Optics and Photonics, SPOF. Senior member of SPIE and fellow of European Optical Society.
Research Interest
Optical metrology, instrumentation, applied optics, thin films and nanoscience, optometry, image processing, science education and scientific literacy