Cris Luengo

Speaker biography: Cris Luengo received the M.Sc. (1998) and the Ph.D. (2004) degrees from the Department of Applied Physics, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands. Currently he is Director of Image Analysis at Flagship Biosciences, a company that specializes in delivering precise measurements of quantitative endpoints in digital pathology. Previously (2008-2015) he was Associate Professor at the Centre for Image Analysis, at Uppsala University, Sweden. He also was a visiting research fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, in California (2004-2008), where he collaborated with a large group of people to build the first three-dimensional, quantitative atlas of gene expression in the fruit fly embryo. Dr. Luengo is the founding author of DIPimage, a MATLAB toolbox for scientific image analysis, and contributing author of DIPlib, the library on which DIPimage is built. He is Senior Member of the IEEE.