CV for EWERT BENGTSSON    

 

A: Professional preparation:

·      Born: May 26, 1948 

·      Civilingenjörsexamen, teknisk fysik, (approx. equivalent to Master of Engineering) from Uppsala University, 1973.

·      Teknologie doktor (Ph.D.) in Physics from Uppsala University, 1977. Thesis: On the Design of Systems for Computer Aided Analysis of Microscopic Images. Application to early detection of cervical cancer. Supervisor: Nobel Laureate Kai Siegbahn, Björn Stenkvist, Bengt Olsen

·      Docent in "informationsbehandling, särskilt numerisk analys", i.e. scientific computing, at Uppsala University, 1980.

 

B: Main Previous Appointments:

·      Research assistant in a project for image analysis and pattern recognition of cervical smears April 1973 - December 1978.

·      Scientific director of the Image Analysis Laboratory of Uppsala University, January 1979 - August 1984.

·      Project leader for developing an automated screening microscope at IMTEC, August 1983 - August 1984 (part time).

·      Parental leave 3 months January – April 1984

·      Head of development at IMTEC - Image Technology AB, September 1984 - January 1989.  Part time July 1988 - January 1989.

·      Adjunct professor of digital image processing at the Department of  Scientific Computing, Uppsala University 1988-1996

·      Head of the Image Analysis Laboratory of Uppsala University July 1988 - June 1995.

·      Chairman of the board and consultant in image processing technology for Uppsala Bildbehandling AB, 1988-1999.

·      Member of the board of the Advanced Software Technology Competence Center, ASTEC, 1997-2000

·      Dean of the Division of Mathematics and Computer Science of the Faculty of Science and Technology at Uppsala University July 1996 - June 1998

·      Head of the virtual IT faculty of Uppsala university 1998-2007

·      Chair of Uppsala Learning Lab 1999-2005

·      Project leader for the National IT User Centre, NITA 2000 - 2008

 

C: Current Appointments:

·      Professor of Computerized image analysis at Uppsala university, since June 1996, about 60% of full time available for research

·      Director of the Centre for Image Analysis in Uppsala 1988-1990, 1992-1996, 2005-

·      Vice rektor/rektorsråd i.e. senior advisor to the vice chancellor of Uppsala University on Information Technology since February 1998

·      Chair of Uppsala University IT-Council since 2008

·      Member of the board of UPPMAX, Uppsala Multidisciplinary Centre for Advanced Computational Science since 2003

·      Member of the board of Uppsala Centre for E-Health since 2005


D: Supervised PhD students :

To doctoral degree (25): Eriksson Olle, 1982, Dahlqvist Bengt, 1988, Nordin Bo, 1989, Orbert Curt, 1993, Pedersen Finn, 1994, Thurfjell Lennart, 1994, Wester (Johansson) Tomas, 1994, Choi Heung-Kook, 1996, Jarkrans Torsten, 1996, Nyström Ingela, 1997, Ranefall Petter, 1998, Frimmel Hans, 1999, Östlund Catherine, 1999, Lundqvist Roger, 2001, Lindblad Joakim, 2003, Ammenberg Petra, 2003,  Carolina Wählby, 2003, Roger Hult, 2003, Anders Hast, 2004, Felix Wehrmann, 2004, Hamed Hamid Muhammed, 2005,  Julia Åhlen, 2005, Pascha Razifar, 2005, Erik Vidholm, 2008, Patrick Karlsson, 2008.

 

To licentiate degree (2): Flink Peter, 1999, Vondrus Michael, 2001

Current PhD students (7):, Magnus Gedda, Amalka Pinidiarachichi, Amin Allalou, Milan Gavrilovic, Khalid Niazi, Filip Malmberg, Patrik Malm,

 

E: Entrepreneurial achievements

·      Bengtsson was the main technical researcher behind the development of a high performance computerized microscope with applications in automated cervical cancer screening and chromosome analysis. The project was run in an academic setting 1993-1983. Then a company, Imtec, was established and Bengtsson served as Head of development 1983-1989. The development group consisted of up to 20 persons. A dedicated image analysis computer system and a workstation for computer assisted radiology were also developed.

·      Based on this development team a consulting company was formed with Bengtsson as driving force. He was also active in the formation of two other companies active in applied medical image analysis Computer Wound Analysis Institute AB and Diascan AB.  He has on several occasions been acting as an independent consultant to international companies in Sweden, UK and US.

·      Bengtsson was one of the founders of the Centre for Image analysis at Uppsala University in 1988. It is today the largest image analysis department in Sweden.

·      He has also initiated numerous university wide reforms in the general IT field as vice-rector/rektorsråd for IT and head of the virtual IT-faculty.

·      He was the initiator, main applicant and head of the scientific reference group of the national research network VISIT, funded by SSF 1996-2001 with a total of 48 MSEK.

 

F: Other merits of relevance

·      He has served as PhD dissertation opponent on 12 occasions in Sweden, Norway and Finland and been on an additional 22 PhD dissertation committees

·      He has served as expert “sakkunnig” for about 20 lecturer and professor positions

·      He has served on scientific funding committees for

·      NUTEK – National Board of Technical Development (Minimially Invasive Medical Techniques),

·      SSF –Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (Medical information technology)  

·      VR – Swedish Science Council (Medical Engineering)

·      ERC – European Research Council (Advanced Researcher Grants)

·      He has served as reviewer of hundreds of scientific papers for international conferences and journals as well as for national and international research proposals

·      He has served on program committees for several international conferences for instance

·      EUSIPCO 2007 - 15th European Signal Processing Conference

·      NORSIG 2004 and NORSIG 2006 – Nordic Signal processing Symposium

·      MDA 2006, MDA 2008 - Advances in Mass data Analysis of Images and signals in Medicne, Biotechnology, Chemistry and Food Industry

·      ICPR 2006– International Conference on Pattern Recognition

·      Conference co-chair for the Workshop on Interaction in medical Image Analysis and Visualization at MICCAI 2007

·      He is currently on the boards of two international scientific journals

·      Computerized Methods and Programs in Biomedicne, Elsevier

·      Machine Graphics and Vision, Polish Academy of science

·      He is an elected member of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.

 

G: Cooperation partners and post-docs

We usually have some international postdocs or professors on sabbatical leave working at the CBA. For more details I refer to www.cb.uu.se, where both current and former activities at CBA are documented.