Short bio: Currently Albert Montillo works as a research scientist at the GE Global Research center in Niskayuna, NY. He has also been a research associate in the Computational Biomedicine Imaging and Modeling Center in the Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering Departments at Rutgers University where his research focused on fast statistical learning methods for computer vision with an emphasis on discriminative and generative learners. His efforts have led to improved decision forests with higher accuracy, faster prediction and reduced memory requirements. Integration into a hybrid discriminative-generative learner shows further improvement and applications in active and semi-supervised learning. In the spring/summer of 2010, he was on leave as a visiting scientist at Microsoft Research, Cambridge UK in their Machine Learning and Perception group.

At the University of Pennsylvania, he worked as an Industrial Liason and Technology Manager for the Department of Radiology and Center for Technology Transfer. There his efforts raised $600,000 USD to further departmental medical imaging research. He obtained a Ph.D. in Computer Science in the Vision, Analysis and Simulation Technologies lab at the University of Pennsylvania, with a thesis focused on frameworks for (1) dynamic segmentation and (2) nonstationary image processing which he applied to high accuracy motion tracking and dynamic segmentation of 4D cardiac MRI.

Prior to the Ph.D., his educational and professional experiences included B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer science with a minor in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in 1993. From 1993 to 1997, he worked as an imaging research scientist and then as a project manager for The Analytical Sciences Coporation in Reading, MA. In 1997 he became a senior research scientist at Cognex where he developed computer vision algorithms for automated high speed computer-based inspection systems. His growing interest in medical applications of computer vision, led him to study electrical engineering at the masters graduate level at Yale University in the Image Processing and Analysis Group.

Highlights: To date, the computer vision methods Dr. Montillo developed have been awarded five United States patents, while his medical image processing research received a first place paper award. The generative model Dr. Montillo developed while at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging of Harvard & MIT, to learn the layout and appearance of neuroanatomy, has been awarded FDA approval in a medical device. Applications include early, objective detection of Alzheimer's, Huntington's, Parkinson's diseases.