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Erik Meijering

Professor Erik Meijering leads the Computer Vision Group in the School of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at UNSW. He is also the Technology Lead for the Image Analytics Pillar of Tyree IHealthE. He has 20+ years of experience in developing advanced computational methods and tools for quantitative analysis of biomedical imaging data. These methods are increasingly based on artificial intelligence approaches involving machine and deep learning. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the world’s largest professional association for the advancement of technology, for his pioneering contributions to biological image analysis.

Before moving to UNSW in 2019, he studied and worked at various engineering institutes and university medical centres across Europe, including Delft University of Technology (MSc), Utrecht University (PhD), and Erasmus University Medical Centre (A/Professor) in the Netherlands, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (Postdoc). He is a multidisciplinary scientist-engineer with a passion to translate computer science theories and mathematical concepts into powerful algorithms for the advancement of medicine and biology. He has published 150+ peer-reviewed journal and conference papers and supervised about 30 HDR students and Postdocs. Over the years his group has developed advanced solutions for image restoration, super-resolution, registration, object detection, segmentation, quantification, classification, and tracking, and has produced various image analysis software tools used by thousands worldwide.

In addition to his academic work, he was/is active internationally as a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Technical Committee on Bio Imaging and Signal Processing (BISP), the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) Technical Committee on Biomedical Imaging and Image Processing (BIIP), and the cross-Society IEEE Life Sciences Technical Community (LSTC). He was/is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, the International Journal on Biomedical Imaging, and the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, has co-edited various journal special issues, including for the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, has co-organized three international benchmarking competitions (Particle Tracking Challenge 2012, Cell Tracking Challenge since 2013, BigNeuron Project since 2015), has co-organized various conferences in the field, most notably the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) and the International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), and served/serves on a great variety of other conference, advisory, and review boards.


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