Biography

Piotr M. Szczypinski received his M.Sc. degree in electronics and telecommunications at the Lodz University of Technology (LUT) in 1995, Ph.D. degree in digital image processing at the same university in 2001 and his D.Sc. degree in biocybernetics and biomedical engineering at the Faculty of Automatic Control, Electronics and Computer Science, Silesian University of Technology in 2013. Currently Dr. Szczypinski is an associate professor at the Faculty of Electrical, Electronic, Computer and Control Engineering, LUT. His research interests include deformable models applied to image segmentation and to object recognition, computer analysis of biomedical images for medical diagnosis, and computer vision applications for food quality assessment.

Education

2013 D.Sc. degree, Faculty of Automatic Control, Electronics and Computer Science, Silesian University of Technology, dissertation on Computer analysis of wireless endoscope images for medical diagnosis (pdf), (in Polish)

2001 Ph.D. degree in digital image processing, Lodz University of Technology, thesis: Deformable Models for Quantitative Analysis and Object Recognition in Digital Images (pdf), (in Polish)

1995 M.Sc. degree in electronics and telecommunications, Lodz University of Technology, thesis: Application of Active Contour for Image Segmentation (in Polish)

Research Experience

2007, 2016 National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, U.S.A. - visiting researcher, sponsored by the Departament of Commerce

2002-2004 National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, U.S.A. - post doctoral studies, sponsored by the Departament of Commerce

1996 Institute für Hochfrequenztechnik, Technische Universität Berlin - studies on high frequency circuits, sponsored by TEMPUS SJEP 09883-95 project