Prof Tom Vercauteren

Tom is Professor of Interventional Image Computing within the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences at King’s College London. His research focuses on translational medical image computing and machine learning with a specific interest in their applications to surgery and interventional sciences. Prior to this, Tom was Associate Professor at University College London (UCL) where he acted as Deputy Director for the Wellcome / EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences (WEISS). In his previous industrial tenure at Mauna Kea Technologies, he served as New Technologies Manager to identify emerging technologies and support their acquisition within the company and led the company image computing group. Tom received his PhD, co-supervised by Nicholas Ayache and Xavier Pennec at Inria Sophia Antipolis, in 2008 from Ecole des Mines de Paris. He obtained his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering at Columbia University in 2004 and graduated from Ecole Polytechnique in 2003.