Short-Bio: (C.V.)

Zhuowen Tu is an assistant professor in the lab of neuro imaging (LONI), Department of Neurology, with a joint appointment in the Department of Computer Science, UCLA. He is also affiliated with the Bioengineering IDP program and Bioinformatics IDP program at UCLA. He received his PhD from the Ohio State University and his M.E. from Tsinghua University. Before joining the LONI, Zhuowen Tu was a member of technical staff at Siemens Corporate Research and a Post-doctoral fellow, Department of Statistics at UCLA.

Experience:

• 07/2008-, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, UCLA.

• 07/2007-, Assistant Professor, Lab of Neuro Imaging, Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, UCLA.

• 11/2005-05/2007 (UCLA), Researcher, Lab of Neuro Imaging, School of Medicine, UCLA. (Leading the special interest group in statistical approaches at Center for Computational Biology)

•  07/2004-10/2005 (Siemens), Member of Technical Staff, Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, NJ

• 12/2002-06/2004 (UCLA), Post-doctoral fellow, Department of Statistics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

Selected Awards:

• 2009, NSF CAREER award
  

• 2007, First Prize, the grand challenge award: best automatic segmentation of the caudate (MICCAI workshop on 3D segmentation in the clinic, a grand challenge)

•  2003, David Marr Prize (with collaborators, by IEEE on ICCV 2003)

• 2003, Talbert Abrams Award (hornorable mention, with collaborator, by American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing)

Education:

• 12/2002, Ph.D. Department of Computer and Information Science, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

•  07/1996, M.E. Department of Civil Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

•  07/1993, B.E. Department of Electronic Engineering,,Beijing Information Technology Institute, Beijing, China

Grants:

• 07/2009~06/2014, NSF CAREER 0844566 (PI)
  
• 10/2008~09/2011, ONR N000140910099 (PI)

Invited Talks:

Nov, 2008  Beckman Institute, University of Illinios at Urbana-Champaign

April, 2007  Center for Image Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore

Feb, 2007    Department of Computer Science, University of California, San Diego

Aug, 2006   International Workshop on Current Trends in Computer Vision, Tibet, China

July 2006   NIH All-hands meeting in Computational Biology, Maryland

April 2006   SIAM Symposium on Image Analysis

Oct. 2005     Short Course, 10^th International Conference on Computer Vision, Beijing China

Aug. 2005    Lotus Hill International Workshop, Hubei, China

March 2004  The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

Nov. 2003    Department of Computer Science, University of California, San Diego

Oct.  2002    Department of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles

Nov. 2002    Los Alamos National Lab

April 2002   Interface 2002, Montreal, Canada

Dec.  2001   Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco