Isaac Cohen received an MS degree in Applied Mathematics and Automatics in 1989 from the University of Paris-IX-Dauphine in France. In 1992, he completed his PhD in Applied Mathematics, with honors, from the same institution. His thesis topic was "3-D Deformable Models for Medical Image Segmentation." Following the receipt of his doctorate, he joined the Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique (INRIA) in Rocquencourt, France as a Senior Researcher. He focused his research efforts primarily on medical imaging in the EPIDAURE team, two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) image segmentation, deformable models, and elastic matching of curves and surfaces.

Cohen subsequently worked on the segmentation and analysis of environmental satellite image sequences. In 1997, he joined the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems and the Integrated Media Systems Center (NSF-ERC) at the University of Southern California (USC), where he served as an Assistant Research Professor. His research in computer vision focused on video segmentation, detection and tracking of moving objects, the spatio-temporal representation of video streams, vision-based user interfaces, and medical image analysis. While at USC, Cohen co-directed the communication initiative at the Integrated Media Systems Center, where he led an effort to develop an aware and interactive workspace for collaborative problem solving. Currently, he is the director of the Integrated Security Technology Group at Honeywell Research Lab in Minneapolis, which focuses on computer vision and video surveillance applications.

You can find out more about him, and his research, on his Web page: http://iris.usc.edu/~icohen.