Ph.D., Chair, Colloquium Committee, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Prof. Israel Gannot received his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Technion and M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Tel-Aviv University, All in Israel. He held a fellowship from the American Academy of Sciences before he joined Tel-Aviv University, Department of Biomedical Engineering where he established the Lasers and Optics in Medicine Reseach Lab (http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/~bmoptics).

Since 2001 he was on an extended sabbatical leave at the NIH and has recently joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the George Washington University. Prof. Gannot is very active in SPIE, OSA, IEEE, ASLMS and a fellow of the American Institute of Biomedical Engineering (AIMBE).

His research activities are in the filed of Optical Imaging, Fiber-optics delivery devices and laser-tissue interaction and biomedical informatics.