Dr. Stephen Aylward

Stephen R. Aylward, Ph.D. is Senior Director of Operations - North Carolina and a Managing Partner at Kitware, Inc. Dr. Aylward is also an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at UNC, Chapel Hill. Stephen founded Kitware’s office in North Carolina in 2006. Its members conduct applied image analysis research and application development in the medical, computer vision, and scientific visualization fields. Dr. Aylward’s research has recently focused on developing model-to-image registration strategies for image guided surgery, vascular network characterization for disease diagnosis, and digital library technologies, e.g., the Insight Journal, http://www.insight-journal.org.

Dr. Aylward is also an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging and the elected president of the Insight Software Consortium – a non-profit agency that promotes free software for medical image analysis. Stephen received a B.S. in computer science in 1988 from Purdue University, an M.S. in artificial intelligence in 1989 from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. in medical image processing in 1997 from UNC. Prior to joining Kitware, Stephen was a tenured Associate Professor of Radiology at UNC.