About Me

Boguslaw Obara, PhD

Address: Oxford e-Research Centre, University of Oxford, 7 Keble Road, OX1 3QG, Oxford, UK

E-mail: boguslaw [dot] obara [AT] oerc [dot] ox [dot] ac [dot] uk

My full CV(pdf)

My interdisciplinary research focuses on advancing the state of the art in development and application of new image analysis and processing technologies aimed at a better understanding of the complex biological processes which occur at the cellular and sub-cellular level. My work includes analyzing, processing and understanding the biological images obtained by confocal, scanning laser, atomic force, differential interface contrast, optical and polarized microscopy.

Education:

• AGH University of Science and Technology, Laboratory of Biocybernetics, Institute of Automatics, Krakow, Poland

  Academic title: PhD in Computer Science

  Specialize: Image analysis and processing

• Jagiellonian University, Institute of Empirical Computer Physics at Department of Physics, Krakow, Poland

  Academic title: Master of Science in Physics

  Specialize: Computer physics

Appointments:

• Oxford e-Research Centre and Oxford Centre for Integrative Systems Biology, University of Oxford

  Address: 7 Keble Road, OX1 3QG, Oxford, UK

• Center for BioImage Informatics, University of California (2007-2009)

  Address: Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9560, USA

• Computer Vision Laboratory,, ETH (2002-2003)

  Address: Sternwartstrasse 7, CH - 8092, Zurich, Switzerland

• Polish Academy of Sciences(2001-2007)

  Address: Reymonta 27, 30-059 Krakow, Poland

Research experience:

• Development and application of image analysis and processing in biology, medicine, material research, geosciences and monument conservation

• Design and development of biological databases

• Microscopy and imaging

• Software and website application programming.

Skills:

Computer systems:

• Dos, Windows, Unix, Linux, Sun

Programming language:

• Matlab, C, C++, HTML, PHP, MySQL, SQL, Java, JavaScript, Python, Fortran

Language ability:

• Polish (native), English (fluent), Russian (passive)

Short research trainings:

1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara, USA; 20.09.2006 - 20.02.2007

2. CNRS, Grenoble, France; 18.06.2006 - 27.06.2006

3. CNRS, Grenoble, France; 05.12.2005 - 11.12.2005

4. Institute of Geonics, CAS, Ostrava, Czech Republic; 24.10.2005 - 27.10.2005

5. Rock Deformation and Structure Analysis Laboratory, Basel University, Basel, Switzerland; 27.06.2005 - 01.07.2005

6. Institute of Geonics, CAS, Ostrava, Czech Republic; 25.04.2005 - 30.04.2005

Awards:

1. Awarded for Junior Fulbright Advanced Research Grant in University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, American Fulbright Commission, 2006/2007

2. Laureate Of IMC16/IFSM Scholarships for Young Scientists, KAZATO Foundation (JEOL Group), Japan, 2006

3. Laureate Of IMC16 Students Registration Support Scholarships, The Organizing Committee of IMC16, Japan, 2006

4. Laureate Of Conference Scholarship, European Geosciences Union, Austria, 2006

5. Laureate Of Conference Scholarship For Young Scientist, Foundation For Polish Science, Poland, 2005

6. Award Of The Best Scientist Work In SMRI, Director of SMRI, Poland, 2004

Review of journals/conferences/workshops/book chapters/grants:

1. Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

2. Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

3. Reviewer of Bioinformatics

4. Reviewer of Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision

5. Reviewer of Image and Vision Computing

6. Reviewer of International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery

7. Reviewer of Computers & Geosciences Journal

8. Reviewer of NDT&E INTERNATIONAL Journal

9. Reviewer of IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, 2008

10. Reviewer of 15th European Signal Processing Conference, 2007

11. Reviewer of International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science

Member of:

1. IEEE

2. Association for Image Processing

3. Polish Society For Rock Mechanics