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Guillermo Sapiro received his B.Sc. (summa cum laude), M.Sc., and Ph.D. from the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, in 1989, 1991, and 1993 respectively. After post-doctoral research at MIT, Dr. Sapiro became Member of Technical Staff at the research facilities of HP Labs in Palo Alto, California. He was with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota, where he held the position of Distinguished McKnight University Professor and Vincentine Hermes-Luh Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Currently he is the Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. School Professor with Duke University.
G. Sapiro works on theory and applications in computer vision, computer graphics, medical imaging, image analysis, and machine learning. He has authored and co-authored over 300 papers in these areas and has written a book published by Cambridge University Press, January 2001.
G. Sapiro was awarded the Gutwirth Scholarship for Special Excellence in Graduate Studies in 1991, the Ollendorff Fellowship for Excellence in Vision and Image Understanding Work in 1992, the Rothschild Fellowship for Post-Doctoral Studies in 1993, the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award in 1998, the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientist and Engineers (PECASE) in 1998, the National Science Foundation Career Award in 1999, and the National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowship in 2010. He received the test of time award at ICCV 2011. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on 2018.
G. Sapiro is a Fellow of IEEE and SIAM.
G. Sapiro was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences.
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Peer support: Current status and future opportunities for college mental health promotion.
Journal article J Am Coll Health · February 2026 Objective: This study of collegiate peer mental health support programs aims to inform future program development. Participants: We conducted a systematic internet search of 776 institutional affiliates of the American College Health Association to identif ... Full text Link to item CiteThe Sensing, Computing, and Devices Opportunities of Computational Behavioral Phenotype: An Autism Spectrum Disorder Case Study
Conference Digest of Technical Papers IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference · January 1, 2026 The AI revolution will come when high-quality healthcare is accessible to all. We describe steps towards this in autism screening. We developed an app displaying stimuli eliciting behaviors that allow to detect signs of autism. These are automatically dete ... Full text CiteA wearable-based aging clock associates with disease and behavior.
Journal article Nature communications · October 2025 Aging biomarkers play a vital role in understanding longevity, with the potential to improve clinical decisions and interventions. Existing aging clocks typically use blood, vitals, or imaging collected in a clinical setting. Wearables, in contrast, can ma ... Full text CiteRecent Grants
Duke-NCCU Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Training Program in Child Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Conditions Program (DN-IPT)
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPreceptor · Awarded by National Institute of Mental Health · 2024 - 2029Duke University Psychiatry Physician-Scientist Residency Training Program
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institute of Mental Health · 2024 - 2029Feeling and Body Investigators (FBI)-ARFID Division: Sensory and Somatic Exposure for Children with Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder
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