Information
Membership Number: FCA2515
Membership Type: Fellow
Division: Engineering and Applied Sciences
Corresponding Email: ******@cs.technion.ac.il
Homepage(s): https://cris.technion.ac.il/en/persons/alfred-bruckstein
Present and Previous Positions
February 1999 - present, Ollendorff Professor: Technion’s Ollendorff Chair in Science, Computer Science Department, Israel Institute of Technology
March 2007 - present, Visiting Professor, School of Mathematics and Physical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
February 1999 - present, Ollendorff Professor: Technion’s Ollendorff Chair in Science, Computer Science Department, TECHNION, I.I.T.
March 2007 - present, Visiting Professor, School of Mathematics and Physical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
January 2007 - January 2023, Adjunct Professor Appointment in Department of Biomedical Engineering, Technion, I.I.T.
January 2007 - January 2012, Head of Technion’s Excellence Program, Technion, I.I.T. October 2002 - January 2006, Dean of the Technion Graduate School, TECHNION, I.I.T.
February 2005, Visiting Professor, Electrical Engineering Department, Karlsruhe University, Ger many.
January 2002 - December 2003, Visiting Chaired Professor (for four months), Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Summer 2000, Visiting Professor, Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs, MURRAY HILL, New Jersey, USA.
Summer 1999, Visiting Professor, Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs, MURRAY HILL, New Jersey, USA.
October 1998 - October 2002, Deputy Dean, Technion Graduate School, I.I.T.
Summer 1998, Visiting Professor, Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs, MURRAY HILL, New Jersey, USA.
November 1995 - February 1999, Professor, Computer Science Department, TECHNION, I.I.T.
April 1995 - September 1997, Member of Technical Staff, Bell Laboratories, AT&T and Lucent Technologies, MURRAY HILL, New Jersey, USA, (on sabbatical leave from the Technion).
Summer 1991, Visiting Professor, A.T.&T. Bell Labs, MURRAY HILL, New Jersey, USA. Summer
1990, Visiting Professor, A.T.&T. Bell Labs, MURRAY HILL, New Jersey, USA. Summer
1989, Visiting Professor, A.T.&T. Bell Labs, MURRAY HILL, New Jersey, USA. Summer
1987, Visiting Assist. Prof., A.T.&T. Bell Labs, MURRAY HILL, New Jersey, USA.
Summer 1986, Visiting Assist. Prof., EE Dept., STANFORD UNIVERSITY, California, USA. Summer
1985, Visiting Assist. Prof., EE Dept., STANFORD UNIVERSITY, California, USA.
June 1989 - November 1995, Associate Professor, CS Department, TECHNION, I.I.T.
December 1988 - June 1989, Associate Professor, EE and CS Departments, TECHNION, I.I.T.
December 1987- December 1988, Tenured Senior Lecturer, EE Department, TECHNION, I.I.T.
October 1984- December 1987, Lecturer, EE Department, TECHNION, I.I.T.
1980-1984, Research Assistant, EE Dept., STANFORD UNIVERSITY.
1979-1980, Teaching Assistant, EE Dept., TECHNION, I.I.T.
1977-1979, Military Service, I.D.F. Medical Corps.
Fields of Scholarship and Research Interests
Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in Stanford University, California in 1984
Research - Image and Signal Processing, Image Analysis (a.k.a. Computer Vision), Computer Graphics, Pattern Recognition, Robotics and Ants, Applied Geometry, Direct and Inverse Scattering, Estimation Theory in Signal and Image Processing, Point Processes in Neuro-
physiological Modelling, Array Processing.
Teaching - Stochastic Processes, Point Processes, Signal Processing, Linear Estimation and Scattering Theory, Biological Signals and Systems, Computer Graphics, Image Processing, Image
"I carry out research on Topics in Image Processing, Image Analysis and Synthesis and Multi-Agent Robotics. I was lucky to have advised a series of outstanding graduate students and post-docs who are pursuing stellar careers in Academia and Industry, and some of our research results have found applications in various fields of endeavor, like visual inspection in VLSI production processes and Medical imaging. A short paper I wrote about “Why the Ant Trails look so Nice and Straight” received quite a lot of attention in the scientific literature, and was the starting point of a series of research works on the mathematical foundations of Multi-Agent Robotic Systems. Alfred Bruckstein is a Fellow of SIAM, Fellow IEEE, and Fellow of AAIA, a Recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Indian Society of Data Science, and An Honorary Doctorate of Agora University of Oradea, Romania."
Honors, Awards and Other Membership
Rothschild Fellowship for Ph.D. Studies, 1980-1981. The TAUB Award in Computer Science, 1989-1990.
Theeman Travel Grant of the Australian Technion Society for a Professional Tour of Australian Universities, 1992.
Pattern Recognition Society Prize for an Outstanding Contribution to the Pattern Recognition Journal, September 1992, for the paper Probabilistic Hough Transform (with N. Kiryati).
The Hershel Rich Technion Innovation Award for the development of DigiDURER, a Digital Engraving System, 1993 (jointly with Yachin Pnueli).
The paper ”Why the Ant Trails Look so Straight and Nice” was selected as a ”top science story in 1993” by DISCOVER Magazine, in the field of Mathematics. The paper was also reviewed in SCIENCE Magazine and in the NEW SCIENTIST (with full page review devoted to it, authored by Prof. Ian Stewart) and several other journals and newspapers worldwide during 1994.
Invited Guest Editor (with Israel Wagner) of a volume of the Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence on ANT ROBOTICS (Vol. 31, 2001).
The Hershel Rich Technion Innovation Award for 2002, (jointly with Adi Bar-Lev and Gershon Elber), for the development of Virtual Marionettes, a Computerized Marionette Theater System, 2002.
2014 Elected SIAM Fellow, for contributions to Signal Processing, Image Analysis, and Ant Robotics.
SIMA Workshop, On Shape and Image Modeling and Analysis (Organized by Prof. Michael Elad, Prof. Ron Kimmel and Dr. Doron Shaked) to Celebrate 60th Birthday of Alfred M. Bruckstein, Ein Gedi, May 21-31, 2014.
2014 SIAG/Imaging Science Prize (for the paper ”From Sparse Solutions of Systems of Equations to Sparse Modeling of Signals and Images” with David Donoho and Michael Elad), 2014.
2018 Doctor Honoris Causa of Agora University, Oradea, Romania.
2018 IEEE Signal Processing Society Sustained Impact Paper Award (for the paper ”K-SVD: An Algorithm for Designing Overcomplete Dictionaries for Sparse Representation” with Michal Aharon and Michael Elad), IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 54/11, November 2006.
2021 Life Time Achievement Award - The India Society for Data Science.
2023 Elected AAIA Fellow of Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association.
2023 Elected IEEE Fellow, for contributions to Signal Representations and Swarm Robotics.
Selected Publications
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=P1OaUP8AAAAJ
Books
1. Y. A. Feldman and A. M. Bruckstein, editors, ”ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND COMPUTER VISION”, North Holland, Amsterdam, 1991 (Collection of papers from the Seventh Israeli Conference on AI and CV, Ramat Gan, December 1990)
2. D. Dori and A. M. Bruckstein, editors, ”SHAPE, STRUCTURE AND PATTERN
RECOGNITION”, World Scientific Publications, 1995 (Collection of papers mostly from the SSPR’94 Conference, Nahariya, Israel, October 1994, Graphics: A.M.Bruckstein).
3. A. M. Bruckstein, B. ter Haar Romeny, A. M. Bronstein, M. M. Bronstein editors, Proceedings of the ”THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SCALE-SPACE AND VARIATIONAL METHODS IN COMPUTER VISION”, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 6667, Springer, 2011.
4. M. Breuss, A. M. Bruckstein, P. Maragos editors, ”INNOVATIONS FOR SHAPE ANALYSIS”, Springer Publishing, 2013.
5. M. Breuss, A. M. Bruckstein, P. Maragos and S. Wuhrer editors, ”PERSPECTIVES INSHAPE ANALYSIS”, Springer Publishing, 2016.
6. Altshuler Y., Pentland A., and Bruckstein A.M., ”SWARMS AND NETWORK INTELLIGENCE IN SEARCH”, Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer Publishing, 2018.
7. Sharma N., Chakrabarti A., Balas A.E., and Bruckstein A.M. editors, ”DATA MANAGEMENT, ANALYTICS, AND INNOVATION”, Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, Volumes 1-2, Springer Publishing, 2021.
Other Information
https://freddy.cs.technion.ac.il/
https://research.com/u/alfred-bruckstein
https://freddy.cs.technion.ac.il/science/professional-interests/
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