M. S. Computer Science, 1980
          University of Southern California

Ingénieur  Informatique, 1977
          Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, Paris, France

• Advisory Board Member Primesense
• Scientific Advisor Ocutronics
• Scientific Committee Member DXO Labs

• Member of the Editorial Board of Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis(PRIA), Interperiodica Publishing
• Associate Editor of International Journal of Image and Video Processing(IJIVP)
• Member of the IEEE Joint C&T/TAB Conference Review Committee
• Advisory Board Member of IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence(PAMI)
• Associate editor of of International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV)

• Winner of the MVA's Most Influential Paper over the Decade Award
• Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence - 2004
• Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers - 2003
• Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition - 2003
• Okawa Foundation Award for Understanding of Information in Images – 1998
• USC – School of Engineering Outstanding Teaching Award – 1994-1995