Arnold Smeulders#
| Membership Number: | 3472 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2013 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | http://staff.science.uva.nl/~smeulder |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2012 - present Secretary top team ICT
- 2011 - present Chair of the Board of COMMIT at CWI
- 2008 - present Chairman of the ICT Platform the Netherlands
- 1994 - present Full Professor Computer Vision at University of Amsterdam
- 1989 - 1995 Full Professor of Biology (0.2) and Associate Professor of Informatics (0.8) at Univeristy of Amsterdam
- 1987 - 1989 Associated Professor Erasmus University Rotterdam, medical informatics
- 1984 - 1987 Assistant Professor Free University Amsterdam, Pathology (0.5) & Medical Informatics (0.5)
- 1981 - 1984 Scientist at Delft city hospital (0.8) and at Delft Technical University (0.2)
- 1981 PhD University of Leyden, faculty of Medicine on visual pattern analysis
- 1977 MSc Delft Technical University, faculty of Applied Physics
Fields of Scholarship
- Image and video search
- Computer vision
- Multimedia information analysis
- Cognitive computer vision
Honours and Awards
- Fellow of the International Association of Pattern Recognition
- Fulbright scholar visiting Yale University
- Honorary member of the Dutch society for Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision
- ICT-Personality of the year 2012
- Member of the topteam ICT
- Score of the Netherlands Computer Science of six-annual international review: highest in 2004 and co-highest in 2009
- Chair of COMMIT/ the public-private research program of 100 MEuro
- Visiting professor in Hong Kong, Tsukuba, Modena, Cagliari, Orlando
