Dr. Kenneth Hanson

Kenneth M. Hanson retired in 2004 from the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he was a Senior Scientist (staff member). He received his Bach. Engineering Physics degree from Cornell University in 1963 and his MS and PhD in physics from Harvard University in 1967 and 1970, respectively. He has published more than 160 journal and proceedings papers, several book chapters and has edited numerous proceedings. His research areas included high-energy electron and photon experiments, proton CT, image quality assessment, image task performance, CT reconstruction from limited data, Bayesian analysis, characterization of posterior probability distributions and validation of simulation codes. In regard to SPIE MI, Hanson served on the organizing committee for the Image Processing Conference (IP) for many years, was IP (co)chair from 1996 to 2001 and Symposium co-chair from 2002 to 2004. He also taught a short course on technical writing from 2006 to 2018 and was the “official photographer” for the Symposium from 2008 to 2018. In 2017 Hanson received two awards from SPIE: the Recognition of Outstanding Achievement Award and the prestigious SPIE Director's Award. He is a Fellow of SPIE, Senior Member of the American Physical Society and Senior Member of IEEE.