Sina Farsiu , an associate professor in the department of biomedical engineering (BME) at Duke University, received the “Outstanding Member of the Editorial Board” award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE) Signal Processing Society in recognition for his exemplary role as the senior area editor of IEEE’s publication, Transactions on Image Processing (TIP). The award is given to editorial board members who have displayed notable excellence in the timeliness of the review process, effective communication with authors and reviewers, and a willingness to go the extra distance to serve the society’s publications. Farsiu was one of ...

Sina Farsiu , an associate professor at Duke University with appointments in biomedical engineering, ophthalmology, electrical and computer engineering, and computer science, has won the 2017 Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) Foundation/Pfizer Ophthalmics Carl Camras Translational Research Award . Reserved for scientists under age 45, the award honors excellence in research and fundamental scientific discoveries, concepts and novel technologies. The discovery that each recipient is nominated for must also have led to, or have promise of leading to, clinical applications. Farsiu will receive the award, which includes a $12,000 honorarium, at the 2017 ARVO Annual Meeting held ...

Sina Farsiu wants to figure out how to peer into your soul . . . or at least your brain. An expert in designing computer image processing algorithms, Farsiu is an assistant professor of ophthalmology at Duke Medicine who recently accepted a primary appointment in the Pratt biomedical engineering department with the hopes of strengthening collaborations across the university. “When President Bush said he looked Vladimir Putin in the eye and got a sense of his soul, he was actually on to something,” said Farsiu, who has a long history of collaborating with peers in Duke’s engineering school. “The retina is part ...