Melanie Ganz

PostDoc

Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging

149 13th Street

Charlestown, MA 02129

USA

Email:	ganz@diku.dk
Office:	CNY149-2243

From 1. of November 2011 on I will work at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging. My new homepage can be found here.

Short CV

Melanie Ganz received her M. Sc. in Physics from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany (2007). During her master program she spent a year abroad at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA. From March 2008 until May 2011 Melanie Ganz completed her Ph.D. studies at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Her supervisors were Mads Nielsen, Marleen de Bruijne and Sami Brandt and she collaborated with a company, Nordic Bioscience Imaging & Synarc Imaging Technologies (now BiomedIQ). During her Ph.D. Ganz has visited and cooporated with Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK. After finishing her PhD, she worked 5 months for Medicsight PLC in London as research and development intern. Currently Melanie Ganz works as an external PostDoc at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging , MA, USA, under the supervision of Koen van Leemput.

Research Interests

Her main research focus is on the application of image processing, computer vision and machine learning techniques in medical imaging as well as the statistical interpretations of results retrieved in medical imaging problems.

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Education

• PostDoc at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging , MA, USA (Koen van Leemput) (2011-2013)
• Ph.D. in computer science at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Kopenhagen (Mads Nielsen, Marleen de Bruijne, Sami Brandt) (2008-2011)
• Visiting student of Microsoft Research Cambridge (Pushmeet Kohli), Cambridge, UK, July-August 2010.
• Visiting student of Microsoft Research Cambridge (Pushmeet Kohli), Cambridge, UK, October-December 2009.
• M. Sc. in physics (Diplom Physik) from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany (2002-2007)
• Year abroad at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA (2005-2006)

Scholarships & Awards

• 2nd year of PostDoc funding by the Lundbeck Foundation (2011).
• 1st year of PostDoc funding by the Alfred Benzon Foundation (2011).
• Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship Recipient (2010).
• Scholarship for visiting research at Microsoft Research Laboratory, Cambridge, UK, by Oticonfonden (2009).
• Scholarship by the German National Academic Exchange (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) (2005-2006).
• Scholarship by the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes) (2002-2007).