René Vidal

Biography

René Vidal is the Herschel L. Seder Professor of Biomedical Engineering and the Inaugural Director of the Mathematical Institute for Data Science at The Johns Hopkins University. His research focuses on the development of theory and algorithms for the analysis of complex high-dimensional datasets such as images, videos, time-series, and biomedical data. Dr. Vidal has been Associate Editor of TPAMI and CVIU, Program Chair of ICCV and CVPR, co-author of the book “Generalized Principal Component Analysis” (2016), and co-author of more than 250 articles in machine learning, computer vision, biomedical image analysis, hybrid systems, robotics, and signal processing. He is a fellow of the IEEE, IAPR and Sloan Foundation, and has received numerous awards for his work, including the 2012 J.K. Aggarwal Prize, 2009 ONR Young Investigator Award, 2004 NSF CAREER Award, as well as best paper awards in machine learning, computer vision, controls, and medical robotics.