Curriculum Vitae

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[[people:adelson:|Edward H. Adelson]]
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<h3>Coordinates:</h3>
&nbsp;&nbsp; Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences <br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; Massachusetts Institute of Technology <br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; 43 Vassar St., Building 46-4115<br>

&nbsp;&nbsp; Cambridge, MA 02139. <br>
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&nbsp;&nbsp; Phone: (617) 253-0645 <br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; email: a d e l s o n @ c s a i l . m i t . e d u <br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; Web: http://mit.edu/persci/people/adelson
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&nbsp;&nbsp; Secondary Office:<br>

&nbsp;&nbsp; Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; 32 Vassar St., Building 32-D424<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; Cambridge, MA 02139. <br>
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<h3>Education:</h3>
&nbsp;&nbsp; 1974-1979. Ph. D. in Experimental Psychology, University of Michigan.<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Dissertation: The response of the rod system to bright flashes of light. <br>

&nbsp;&nbsp; 1970-1974. B. A. in Physics and Philosophy, Yale University. 
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<h3>Positions held:</h3>
</font> <font size=2>&nbsp;&nbsp; 2007 - Present: John and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Vision Science, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive 
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  &nbsp;&nbsp; 1997 - 2007: Professor of Vision Science, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive 
  Sciences, MIT. <br>
  &nbsp;&nbsp; 1994 - 1997: Associate Professor of Vision Science, Dept. of Brain 
  and Cognitive Sciences, MIT. <br>

  &nbsp;&nbsp; 1987 - 1994: Associate Professor of Vision Science, Media Laboratory, 
  MIT. <br>
  &nbsp;&nbsp; 1981 - 1986: Staff scientist (MTS), RCA Laboratories; research on basic 
  and applied problems in human and machine vision. <br>
  &nbsp;&nbsp; 1979 - 1981: Post-doctoral fellow at NYU; research in computational 
  and psychophysical  problems in motion perception.
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<h3>Honors and Awards:</h3>
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<font size=2>&nbsp;&nbsp; 2007 - Member, National Academy of Sciences. <br>

  &nbsp;&nbsp; 2005 - Longuet-Higgins Award for Outstanding Contributions to Computer 
  Vision that have Withstood the Test of Time, IEEE Computer Society. <br>
  &nbsp;&nbsp; 1992 - Rank Prize in Opto-electronics (with J. A. Movshon, W. Newsome, 
  and S. Zeki). <br>
  &nbsp;&nbsp; 1984 - Adolph Lomb Medal, Optical Society of America. <br>
  &nbsp;&nbsp; 1983 - Outstanding Achievement Award, RCA Laboratories. <br>
  &nbsp;&nbsp; 1980 - Marquis Award, University of Michigan.
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   &nbsp;&nbsp; Tappen, Marshall, &quot;Recovering Shading and Reflectance from a Single Image&quot; M.S., M.I.T., 2002. <br>
   &nbsp;&nbsp; Neviett, William, &quot;Early Visual Features as Determinants of Perceived Texture 
  Similarity&quot;, M.S., M.I.T., 1995. <br>

   &nbsp;&nbsp; Niyogi, Sourabh, &quot;Kinetic Occlusion&quot;, S.M., EECS, M.I.T., 1995. <br>
   &nbsp;&nbsp; Nagarajan, Ram, &quot;Very Low Bit Rate Object Based Image Compression Using Nonlinear 
  Geometric Transforms&quot;, M.S., M.I.T., 1995. <br>
   &nbsp;&nbsp; Desai, Ujjaval, &quot;Coding of Segmented Image Sequences&quot;, M.Eng. M.I.T., 
  1994. <br>

   &nbsp;&nbsp; Chou, G. T., &quot;Visual Motion Perception: Uncertainty, Estimation, and Control&quot;, 
  M.S., M.I.T., 1993. <br>
   &nbsp;&nbsp; Sinha, Pawan, &quot;The Perception of Shading and Reflectance&quot;, M.S., M.I.T., 
  1992. <br>
   &nbsp;&nbsp; Sokolov, Michael, &quot;Visual Motion: Algorithms for Analysis and Application&quot;, 
  M.A., M.I.T., 1990. <br>

   &nbsp;&nbsp; Simoncelli, Eero, &quot;Orthogonal Sub-band Image Transforms&quot;, M.S., M.I.T., 
  1988.


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  &nbsp;&nbsp; McDermott, Joshua H., &quot;Empirical Constraints on the Evolutionary Origins of Music&quot;, 
M. I. T., 2007. <br>

 &nbsp;&nbsp; Tappen, Marshall F., &quot;Learning Continuous Models for Estimating  Intrinsic Component Images&quot;, 
M. I. T., 2006. <br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; Fleming, Roland W., &quot;Human Visual Perception Under Real-world Illumination&quot;, 
M. I. T., 2003. <br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; Dror, Ron, &quot;Surface Reflectance Recognition and Real-World Illumination Statistics&quot;, M. I. T., 2002. <br>

 &nbsp;&nbsp; Weiss, Yair, &quot;Bayesian motion estimation and segmentation&quot;, M.I.T., 
1998. <br>

 &nbsp;&nbsp; Wang, John Y. A., &quot;Layered Image Representation: Identification of Coherent 
Components in Image Sequences&quot;, M.I.T., 1996. <br>

 &nbsp;&nbsp; Simoncelli, Eero, &quot;Distributed Analysis and Representation of Visual Motion&quot;, 
M.I.T., 1993. <br>

 &nbsp;&nbsp; Freeman, William, &quot;Steerable Filters and Local Analysis of Image Structure,&quot; 
M.I.T., 1992.
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===== Publications =====
[[people:adelson:|Edward H. Adelson]]

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