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I. T. Watson-research and . Center, Andre Gueziec is a Research Staa Member in the Visual and Geometric Computing Department at the His research contributions are in medical imaging, scientiic visualization and geometric modeling. His interests also include computer graphics and robotics

R. Sophia-antipolis and F. , IDAURE research group on medical image analysis and robotics since 1989 He is also teaching graduate courses on computer vision at Univ. Paris XI, Ecole Centrale and consulting for a number of private companies , including currently Matra-Cap-Systemes and Focus Medical. He received his Ph.D. in 1983, and his Thhse d'Etatt in 1988 both in computer science from the University of Paris XI, on topics related to model based object recognition, passive stereovision and multisensor fusion. His current research interests are in medical image processing and analysis, shape and motion representation, rigid and non-rigid registration, tracking and analysis of deformable objects, image guided and simulated therapy