Curriculum Vitae - Professor Ian T. Young



Name

	Ian Theodore Young

Title

	Professor of Applied Physics, Emeritus
	Department of Bionanoscience
	Faculty of Applied Sciences
	Delft University of Technology
	Delft, The Netherlands

Date and Place of Birth

	December 15, 1943
	Chicago, Illinois

Education

	University			      Degree	Date
	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	SB	June 1966
	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	SM	June 1966
	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	PhD	June 1969

Principal Fields of Research

	Quantitative Microscopy
	Imaging Instrumentation
	Image Processing (image in/image out)
	Image Analysis (image in/measurements out)
	Computer Vision
	Digital Signal Processing
	Lab-on-a-Chip Instrumentation
	Automated and Analytical Pathology and Cytogenetics
	Pattern Recognition

Employment

	Employer	Position			Beginning	Ending
	MIT		Instructor			Jun 1967	Jun 1969
	MIT		Assistant Professor 		Jul 1969	Jun 1973
	MIT		Associate Professor		Jul 1973	Jun 1979
	
	LLNL		Group Leader			Jun 1978	Dec 1981
	
	TU Delft	Professor of Applied Physics	Dec 1981	Dec 2008
	
	TU Delft	Professor of Applied Physics, Emeritus
							Dec 2008	present
	
	TU Delft	Chairman, Department of Applied Physics
							Sep 1998	Jun 2002
	
	TU Delft	Chairman, Department of Imaging Science & Technology
							Jul 2002	Dec 2008
							
	TU Delft	Chairman, Medical Delta		Jan 2005	Dec 2012
							
	TU Delft	Chairman, Department of Bionanoscience
							Jan 2013	Dec 2013

Visiting Positions

	Max Planck Institute, Germany, February 1976
	Technical University Linkoping, Sweden, May 1976
	Technical University Delft, Visiting Professor
		Departments of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics
		Delft, The Netherlands, September 1975 - June 1976
	Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Visiting Professor
		Lausanne, Switzerland, December 1979 - March 1980
	University of California, San Francisco, Visiting Professor
		San Francisco, California, July 1988
	University of Bandung, Visiting Professor
		Department of Electrical Engineering,
		Bandung, Indonesia, July 1992
	Tsinghua University, Visiting Lecturer
		Department of Electrical Engineering
		Beijing, China, October 1996
	Northwestern University, Visiting Lecturer
		Department of Electrical Engineering
		Evanston, Illinois, March-April 2001
	Northwestern University, Visiting Lecturer
		Department of Electrical Engineering
		Evanston, Illinois, March-April 2002
	Bar Ilan University, Visiting Lecturer
		Department of Biophysics
		Ramat Gan, Israel, March-April 2009

Consulting

	Consultant to over 25 companies and government agencies in the 
	United States and Europe since 1966. Consultant to The Netherlands,
	USA, United Kingdom, Sweden, Belgium, and the World Bank.

Honors and Awards Received

	Award							        Date
	Supervisor's Investor's Services Teaching Award		        1968
	Sigma Xi (Scientific Honorary Society)			        1969
	Vinton Hayes Post-Doctoral Fellowship			        1969
	Cornelius Gelderman Funds Foundation Fellowship		        1975
	Organisation for Pure Research Fellowship (ZWO)		        1976
	Organisation for Pure Research Fellowship (ZWO)		        1977
	Westerdijk Teaching Prize				        1986
	Schlumberger Foundation Research Prize			        1990
	TU Delft Leermeester Prize				        1999
	Fellow, Int. Assoc. Pattern Recognition				2000
	Distinguished Service Award
		Int. Soc. Analytical Cytology	                        2002
	Ridder in de Orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw
		(Knight in the Order of the Dutch Lion)                 2006
	Fulwyler Award for Innovative Excellence
		Int. Soc. Analytical Cytology                           2008

Editorial Positions

	Position	Journal				Period
	Assoc. Editor	Cytometry/Bioimaging		1999 - 2003.
	Editor		Bioimaging			1992 - 1999.
	Assoc. Editor	Patt. Recog. Letters		1982 - 2003.
	Assoc. Editor	Cytometry			1982 - 1993.
	Assoc. Editor	Signal Processing		1984 - 2003.
	Assoc. Editor	Analy. & Cell. Pathology	1992 - 2004.
	Assoc. Editor	Automedica			1985 - 1996.

Thesis Supervision

Publications

	Author of over 200 publications. For a listing see:
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e-mail: i.t.young at tudelft dot nl
Last update: Friday, 15 January 2016