Punam K Saha

Punam Kumar Saha received his Ph.D. degree in 1997 from the Indian Statistical Institute, where he served as a faculty member during 1993-97. In 1997, he joined the University of Pennsylvania as a postdoctoral fellow, where he served as a Research Assistant Professor during 2001-06, and moved to the University of Iowa in 2006, where is currently serving as a tenured professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Radiology. His research interests include image processing and pattern...See more

Punam Kumar Saha received his Ph.D. degree in 1997 from the Indian Statistical Institute, where he served as a faculty member during 1993-97. In 1997, he joined the University of Pennsylvania as a postdoctoral fellow, where he served as a Research Assistant Professor during 2001-06, and moved to the University of Iowa in 2006, where is currently serving as a tenured professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Radiology. His research interests include image processing and pattern recognition, quantitative medical imaging, musculoskeletal and pulmonary imaging, image restoration and segmentation, digital topology, geometry, shape and scale. He has published over 100 papers in international journals and over 300 papers/abstracts in international conferences, holds numerous patents related to medical imaging applications, has served as an associate editor of Pattern Recognition and Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics journals, and has served in many international conferences at various levels. Currently, he is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering and the Pattern Recognition Letters journals. He received a Young Scientist award from the Indian Science Congress Association in 1996, has received several grant awards from the National Institute of Health, USA, and is a Fellow of International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) and American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). See less