Initiative in Innovative Computing (IIC) Harvard University

Amelio Vázquez-Reina is a Ph.D. candidate at the Laboratory for Imaging Science Research at Tufts University, where his advisor is Professor Eric Miller. Prior to attending Tufts he obtained his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering with honors from The University of Alcalá. There he received the Best National M.Sc Thesis Award from the National Association of Spanish Electrical Engineers (AEIT/COIT).

Amelio’s research interests are in variational segmentation methods, shape priors, and image tracking. His current work includes the study of geometrically constrained active contours, knowledge-guided deformable models, and level set methods. He also collaborates with the Department of Neurosurgery at the Tufts Medical Center where he is developing multiscale models for vasculature segmentation and aneurysm diagnosis in 3D digital subtraction angiography.

Amelio is currently working at the IIC with Professor Hanspeter Pfister (Computer Science) and Professor Jeff Lichtman (Molecular and Cellular Biology). As part of the Connectome Project,  he is researching segmentation and tracking algorithms for the extraction of the neural circuitry of mammalians in electron and confocal microscopy.