Technical Program

Key Note Speakers: Vince D. Calhoun and C. Carl Jaffe

Vince D. Calhoun VINCE CALHOUN received a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, in 1991, master’s degrees in Biomedical Engineering and Information Systems from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, in 1993 and 1996, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, in 2002. He worked as a Senior Research Engineer at the Psychiatric Neuro-Imaging Laboratory at Johns Hopkins from 1993 until 2002. Then he took a position as the director of medical image analysis at the Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center and an associate professor at Yale University.

Dr. Calhoun is currently Director of Image Analysis and MR Research at the Mind Research Network and is an associate professor in the Departments of ECE, neurosciences, and computer science at the University of New Mexico. He is the author of more than 100 full journal articles, over 200 technical reports, abstracts and conference proceedings. Much of his career has been spent on the development of data driven approaches for the analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data. He has won over $12 million in NSF and NIH grants on the incorporation of prior information into independent component analysis ( ICA) for fMRI, data fusion of multimodal imaging and genetics data, and the identification of biomarkers for disease.

Dr. Calhoun is a senior member of the IEEE, the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, and the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. He has participated in multiple NIH study sections. He has worked in the organization of workshops at conferences including the society of biological psychiatry (SOBP) and the international conference of independent component analysis and blind source separation ( ICA). He is currently serving on the IEEE Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP) Technical Committee and has previous served as the general chair of the 2005 meeting. He is a reviewer for a number of international journals and is on the editorial board of the Human Brain Mapping and Neuroimage journals and an associate editor for the IEEE Signal Processing Letters and the International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience.
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C. Carl Jaffe, M.D., F.A.C.C.

Dr. Jaffe is currently Professor of Radiology, Boston University and Professor Emeritus of Medicine (Cardiology), Yale University School of Medicine. He holds a B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.D. from Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons and is board certified in diagnostic radiology and nuclear medicine. His career foci have been: research in computer applications in diagnostic imaging; education (network-based and classroom); and clinical trial imaging. He has been a visiting scientist at the Office of High Performance Computing and Communications at the National Library of Medicine and a Visiting Professor in Applied Physics, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. He founded the Center for Advanced Instructional Media at the Yale School of Medicine and was a recipient of the Pirelli Internetional (sic) Award in 2005 for communication of science and technology carried out entirely on the Internet. He has served as a Board Member of the Whitaker Foundation, Chairman of the Board of Scientific Counselors National Library of Medicine and 2nd Vice President of the Radiological Society of North America. His grants have included an NIH Research Career Development Award, James Picker Foundation Scholar, and an R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health. He has published or edited 8 books and more than 180 monographs and scientific journal articles.