Stanley Osher

Dr. Osher is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Director of Special Projects in the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) and member of the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at UCLA. He received his B.S. from Brooklyn College in 1962, M.S. from New York University in 1964 and Ph.D. from New York University in 1966. Prof. Osher was the inventor or co-inventor and developer of many highly successful numerical methods for computational physics, image processing and other fields, including, Level set method (with Sethian) for capturing moving interfaces, which has been phenomenally successful as a key tool in PDE based image processing and computer vision, as well as applications in differential geometry, image segmentation, inverse problems, optimal design, Two-phase flow, crystal growth, deposition and etching. He has founded or co-founded three successful companies: Cognitech (with Rudin), Level Set Systems and Luminescent Technologies (with Yablonovitch). In 2014 Prof. Osher received the Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize, amongst the highest honors in Mathematics.