Nassir Navab

by | Oct 17, 2024

Nassir Navab
Technical University of Munich, Germany
2024

Nassir Navab is a full professor and director of the Laboratories for Computer Aided Medical Procedures (CAMP: http://campar.in.tum.de) at Technical University of Munich (TUM) and an adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins University (http://camp.lcsr.jhu.edu/). He is also the director of biannual Medical Augmented Reality (http://medicalaugmentedreality.org/) school series at Balgrist Hospital in Zurich. He is a Member of Academia Europaea and received the prestigious MICCAI Enduring Impact Award in 2021 and IEEE ISMAR 10 Years Lasting Impact Award in 2015. In 2001, while acting as distinguished member of technical staff at Siemens Corporate Research (SCR) in Princeton, he received the prestigious Siemens Inventor of the Year Award for the body of his work in interventional imaging. He also received the SMIT Technology Innovation Award in 2010. He is also honored as Medical AR Pioneer in AWE XR hall of fame in 2024 (https://www.awexr.com/hall-of-fame). His students have received many paper awards including 15 awards at the prestigious MICCAI events, 5 at IPCAI, 2 at IPMI and 4 at IEEE ISMAR. He is Fellow of the MICCAI Society and acted on its board of directors from 2007 to 2012 and from 2014 to 2017. He is also an IEEE Fellow and Fellow of Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA) and one of the founders of IEEE Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) and has been serving on its Steering Committee since 2001. He is an Area Chair for ECCV 2024. He is the author of hundreds of peer reviewed scientific papers and over 100 granted US and international patents. As of June 2024, his papers have received over 78,600 citations and enjoy an h-index of 119.