Stanley Osher

Stanley Osher (born 1942) is an American mathematician known for his contributions to shock capturing, level-set methods and PDE-based methods in computer vision and image processing. He studied at Brooklyn College and New York University, where he completed his Ph.D. in 1966, and after two years at Brookhaven National Laboratories he held posts at the University of California, Berkeley and Stony Brook University before moving to the University of California, Los Angeles in 1977. There he is a professor and a director of special projects at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics. He co-founded the company Cognitech in 1988. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2005 and received the 2014 Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize, the ICIAM Pioneer Prize in 2003 and the SIAM Kleinman Prize in 2005. He wrote books on level set methods and on splitting methods in imaging.