Marius George Linguraru, D.Phil., M.A., M.Sc., is principal investigator in the Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation at Children's National Hospital in Washington, D.C., where he directs the Precision Medical Imaging Group. Dr. Linguraru is also professor of Radiology and Pediatrics and secondary professor of Biomedical Engineering at George Washington University. He co-founded PediaMetrix Inc., a company focused on infant well-being by creating solutions to improve the management of conditions of early childhood. He joined the Sheikh Zayed Institute from the National Institutes of Health, completed his doctorate at the University of Oxford and held fellowships at the French National Institute of Research in Computer Science (INRIA) and at Harvard University.
Dr. Linguraru is the recipient of numerous awards, including a prize for Excellence in Engineering by a Younger Engineer at the Houses of Parliament in London, UK. He has served on boards and committees of the of the Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) Society, the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, the IEEE Signal Processing Society, and the Foundation of the International Society of Medical Information Processing and Analysis (SIPAIM). He founded and chairs the MICCAI Career Development Program. He was the general chair of the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging 2019 in Venice, Italy, co-chair of SIPAIM 2020 in Lima, Peru (virtual) and will be the program chair of MICCAI 2024 in Marrakesh, Morocco.
