Guillermo Sapiro, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Guillermo Sapiro received his B.Sc. (summa cum laude), M.Sc., and Ph.D. from the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, in 1989, 1991, and 1993 respectively. After post-doctoral research at MIT, Dr. Sapiro became Member of Technical Staff at the research facilities of HP Labs in Palo Alto, California. He was with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota, where he held the position of Distinguished McKnight University Professor and Vincentine Hermes-Luh Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Currently he is the Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. School Professor with Duke University.

G. Sapiro works on theory and applications in computer vision, computer graphics, medical imaging, image analysis, and machine learning. He has authored and co-authored over 300 papers in these areas and has written a book published by Cambridge University Press, January 2001.

G. Sapiro was awarded the Gutwirth Scholarship for Special Excellence in Graduate Studies in 1991,  the Ollendorff Fellowship for Excellence in Vision and Image Understanding Work in 1992,  the Rothschild Fellowship for Post-Doctoral Studies in 1993, the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award in 1998,  the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientist and Engineers (PECASE) in 1998, the National Science Foundation Career Award in 1999, and the National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowship in 2010. He received the test of time award at ICCV 2011. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on 2018.

G. Sapiro is a Fellow of IEEE and SIAM.

G. Sapiro was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences.

Please note: Guillermo has left the Mathematics department at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.

Contact Info:

Office Location:	140 Science Drive
Office Phone:	(919) 660-5252
Email Address:
Web Pages:	http://www.math.duke.edu/~gs108 http://sapirolab.pratt.duke.edu/

Office Hours:

By appointment. Contact via e-mail.

Education:

D.Sc.	Israel Institute of Technology (Israel)	1993
MS	Technion, Haifa, Israel	1991
BS	Technion, Haifa, Israel	1989

Research Interests:

Image and video processing, computer vision, computer graphics, computational vision, biomedical imaging, brain imaging, cryo-tomography of viruses, computational tools in cryo-tomography, computational tools in early diagnosis of psychiatric disorders, differential geometry and differential equations, scientific computation, learning and high dimensional data analysis, sparse modeling and dictionary learning, applied mathematics.

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Miller, AC; Futoma, J; Abbaspourazad, S; Heinze-Deml, C; Emrani, S; Shapiro, I; Sapiro, G, A wearable-based aging clock associates with disease and behavior., Nature communications, vol. 16 no. 1 (October, 2025), pp. 9264 [doi]  [abs]
2. Isaev, DY; Major, S; Carpenter, KLH; Grapel, J; Chang, Z; Di Martino, M; Carlson, D; Dawson, G; Sapiro, G, Use of computer vision analysis for labeling inattention periods in EEG recordings with visual stimuli., Sci Rep, vol. 15 no. 1 (August, 2025), pp. 30963 [doi]  [abs]
3. Erwin, S; Ahmed, T; Cloughesy, J; Citron, K; Joo, F; Monahan, E; Kim, YK; Straka, B; Bennett, G; Strauman, T; Gaither, S; Sapiro, G; Zucker, N, Peer support: Current status and future opportunities for college mental health promotion., J Am Coll Health (July, 2025), pp. 1-11 [doi]  [abs]
4. Aikat, V; Carpenter, KLH; Babu, PRK; Di Martino, JM; Espinosa, S; Compton, S; Davis, N; Franz, L; Spanos, M; Sapiro, G; Dawson, G, Autism Digital Phenotyping in Preschool- and School-Age Children., Autism Res, vol. 18 no. 6 (June, 2025), pp. 1217-1233 [doi]  [abs]
5. Huang, L; Qiu, Q; Sapiro, G, SSOLE: RETHINKING ORTHOGONAL LOW-RANK EMBEDDING FOR SELF-SUPERVISED LEARNING, 13th International Conference on Learning Representations Iclr 2025 (January, 2025), pp. 100712-100734  [abs]

Recent Grant Support

• Duke-NCCU Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Training Program in Child Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Conditions Program (DN-IPT), National Institute of Mental Health, 2024/07-2029/06.      
• Duke University Psychiatry Physician-Scientist Residency Training Program, National Institute of Mental Health, 2024/06-2029/02.      
• Feeling and Body Investigators (FBI)-ARFID Division: Sensory and Somatic Exposure for Children with Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder, National Institutes of Health, 2021/08-2026/06.      
• CIF: Small: Foundations and Applications of Blind Subgroup Robustness, National Science Foundation, 2021/10-2025/09.      
• Apple Research Projects, Apple Corporation, 2023/09-2025/09.      
• Novel Approaches to Infant Screening for ASD in Pediatric Primary Care, National Institutes of Health, 2019/09-2025/06.      
• Learning and Explaining Information Dynamics from Overhead Imagery, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, 2019/09-2024/09.      
• Causality in the Real World: From Geometry to Privacy Foundations, Office of Naval Research, 2024/04-2024/08.      
• A computational approach for quantifying motor behaviors in spinocerebellar ataxias to improve early detection of motor signs and precisely estimate disease severity and disease change, Massachusetts General Hospital, 2021/04-2024/08.      
• Scalable Computational Platform For Active Closed-Loop Behavioral Coding in Autism Spectrum Disorder, National Institutes of Health, 2019/07-2024/04.      
• Novel see and treat strategies for cervical cancer prevention in low-resource settings, National Institutes of Health, 2019/02-2024/01.      
• Fundamentals and Applications in Learned Information Representation, Office of Naval Research, 2020/04-2023/12.      
• HDR TRIPODS: Innovations in Data Science: Integrating Stochastic Modeling, Data Representation, and Algorithms, National Science Foundation, 2019/10-2023/09.      
• Learning Privacy for the Internet of Visual Things, Cisco Systems, Inc., 2018/06-2023/09.      
• CIF: AF: Small: Foundations of Multimodal Information Integration, National Science Foundation, 1712867, 2017/09-2023/09.      
• Uncovering Population-Level Cellular Relationships to Behavior via Mesoscale Networks, National Institutes of Health, 2019/09-2023/09.      
• Digital Behavioral Outcome Measures for Autism, Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative, 2019/07-2023/06.      
• Learning Utility-Preserving Private, Fair, and Invariant Representations, Office of Naval Research, 2020/05-2023/05.      
• Tailoring treatment targets for early autism intervention in Africa, National Institutes of Health, 2019/08-2023/01.