Marius George Linguraru
Children’s National Health System/George Washington University, USA
Expertise: medical image analysis, computer-aided diagnosis, pediatric imaging, computational anatomy
Marius George Linguraru, DPhil MA MSc loves working with multidisciplinary teams of clinicians, scientists and engineers to help children grow healthy and happy. He is Principal Investigator in the Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation at Children’s National Health System in Washington, DC, where he founded and directs the Quantitative Imaging Group. Dr. Linguraru is also Associate Professor of Radiology and Pediatrics and Secondary Professor of Biomedical Engineering at George Washington University. He co-founded PediaMetrix LLC, a company focused on infant well-being by creating solutions to improve the management of conditions of early childhood. He joined the Sheikh Zayed Institute from the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, where he maintains an appointment as Associate Investigator. He completed his doctorate at the University of Oxford and holds masters degrees in science and in arts from the University of Sibiu. He held fellowships at the French National Institute of Research in Computer Science and at Harvard University.
Dr. Linguraru is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society and a member of the Technical Directors Board Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including a prize for Excellence in Engineering by a Younger Engineer at the Houses of Parliament in London, UK. He is the General Chair of the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging 2019 in Venice, Italy.