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Scientific & Honor Socities
Awards & Recognition
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 | Dr. Farag has been appointed as University Scholar in 2002 for his
basic contribution in Computer Vision and Medical Imaging. |
| Locally, Dr. Farag’s research on medical imaging won the first place
in the annual Research!Louisville meeting three times, and has been
chief judge for the annual Louisville Science and Engineering meeting
since 2003. Dr. Farag’s research has also been featured on the
Louisville Science Museum, January 20, 2007. |
| Dr. Farag had been associate editor of the journal IEEE Transactions
on Image Processing for the term 2000-2004. |
| Dr. Farag received the University of Louisville President's Award
for Outstanding Scholarship, Research, and Creative Activity (March
1999). |
| Dr. Farag's work at the CVIP Lab was used in a Congressional
discussion on the NSF's agenda in February 98 (Ref: Larry Goldberg and
George Lea of NSF). |
| Dr. Farag is a regular reviewer to the NSF and the NIH. He has
participated in various ECS, CISE panels at the NSF including CAREER,
SEIII, SBIR and center proposals for science and technology. |
| Dr. Farag has been on the organizing committee of several
international conferences, and is reviewer to all major conferences in
the fields of image processing, computer vision, pattern recognition and
medial imaging, including ICCV, CVPR, ICPR, ICIP, MICCAI, and CARS. Dr.
Farag is a regular reviewer to IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
(TIP), IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI), and IEEE Transactions
on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Journal of Machine
Vision, Optical Society of America (OSA), IEEE Transactions on
Biomedical Engineering (T-BME), and the Journal of Pattern Recognition
(PR). He was general chair of the 2005 Graphics, Vision and Image
Processing (GVIP 05) International Conference. He is co-chair of the
upcoming IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP09). |
| Dr. Farag has evaluated research proposals for national and
international organizations, including the NIH and NSF in the US,
Science Foundation of Ireland, Research Council of Canada, and the
Austrian Science Funds. |
| Dr. Farag has evaluated faculty promotions for Cairo and Ain Shams
Universities in Egypt, Sultan Qaboos University in Oman, and has been
referenced for faculty at Glasgow University, UK, and York University,
Canada. |
| Dr. Farag’s research has been profiled over 30 times at local and
national news media outlets, including the Speed Engineer, Inside UofL,
Louisville Courier and Journal, Et Ultra (Research and Scholarship at
UofL), WAVE-3 TV, Fox TV, KET TV, and the Learning Channel. |
| Dr. Farag has been cochair of the SPIE annual conference on
Electronic Imaging (Photonics West) since 1996. He was chair of the
Medical Imaging Session of the International Conference on Acoustics,
Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP99), Phoenix Arizona, March
1722, 1999. He was invited to present a tutorial on Medical Imaging
to the International Conference on ComputerAssisted Radiology
(CAR99), Paris, France June 99. He was cochair of the Remote
Sensing Session of the Pattern Recognition in Practice (PRPVI)
International Conference, Vlieland, Holland, June 26, 1999. |
| Dr. Farag has been invited to deliver seminars at over 30 universities in the U.S. and abroad, and has been a consultant to Auckland University, New Zealand, Swiss Federal Academy, Cairo University, Egypt, the University of Technology, and Malaysia. He holds honorary professorship position at Mansoura University, Egypt. |
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