Milan Sonka
Milan Sonka is a prominent biomedical engineer and professor at the University of Iowa, holding the Lowell G. Battershell Chair in Biomedical Engineering and serving as Director of the Iowa Initiative for Artificial Intelligence and Co-director of the Iowa Institute for Biomedical Imaging. He earned his MS in Electrical Engineering (Technical Cybernetics) in 1979 and PhD in Technical Cybernetics (Digital Image Analysis) in 1983 from the Czech Technical University in Prague. Recognized as an IEEE Fellow, AIMBE Fellow, and MICCAI Fellow, Sonka is renowned for his contributions to medical image analysis and computer vision, with extensive publications and editorial roles including Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging.