Michael Vrhel was awarded his PhD from North Carolina State University in 1993; during his PhD, he was an Eastman Kodak Fellow. He has many years’ experience working in digital imaging, including biomedical imaging and signal processing at NIH; color instrument and color software design at Color Savvy Systems Ltd, and positions at Conexant Systems, TAK Imaging and Artifex Software.
A senior member of the IEEE, he has a number of current and pending patents and is the author of numerous papers in the areas of image and signal processing including a book, The Fundamentals of Digital Imaging. His current interests include efficient computational document and color rendering methods as well as deep learning applications.