A former student of the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, Laurent Younes received his Ph.D. from the University Paris Sud in 1989. Now a professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics at Johns Hopkins University (which he joined in 2003), he was a junior, then senior researcher at CNRS in France from 1991 to 2003. His research is in stochastic modeling for imaging and biology, shape analysis and computational anatomy. He is a core faculty member of the Center for Imaging Science and of the Institute for Computational Medicine at JHU.
