Donald Geman

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Donald Geman (right) in Paris in 1983

Donald Jay Geman (born September 20, 1943 in Chicago ) is an American mathematician.

Geman studied English literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a bachelor's degree in 1965 and received his doctorate in mathematics under Michael Barry Marcus at Northwestern University in 1970 ( horizontal-window conditioning and the zeros of stationary processes ). From 1970 he taught at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst , where he was retired as Distinguished Professor in 2001. He was then a professor at Johns Hopkins University and has also been a regular visiting professor at the École normal supérieure de Cachan in Paris since 2001 .

He deals with machine learning, computer vision, image processing, bioinformatics and statistical methods. In a highly cited work with his brother Stuart Geman , he introduced Gibbs sampling in 1984 and applied the algorithm to image processing. With Y. Amit, he introduced randomized decision trees (Random Forests, Decision Forests) in the 1990s.

He is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and SIAM and a member of the National Academy of Sciences . He is one of the ISI Highly Cited Researchers.

Fonts (selection)

  • with Joseph Horowitz: Occupation densities, Annals of Probability, Volume 8, 1980, pp. 1-67
  • D. Geman, S. Geman: Stochastic Relaxation, Gibbs Distributions, and the Bayesian Restoration of Images , IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Volume 6, 1984, pp. 721-741
  • with S. Geman, C. Graffigne, P. Dong: Boundary detection by constrained optimization, IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence, Volume 12, 1990, pp. 609-628
  • Random fields and inverse problems in imaging, Ecole d'ete de Probabilites de Saint-Flour XVIII-1988, Springer, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 1990, pp. 113-193
  • with G. Reynolds: Constrained restoration and the recovery of discontinuities, IEEE Transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence, Volume 14, 1992, pp. 367-383
  • with C. Yang: Nonlinear image recovery with half-quadratic regularization, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Volume 4, 1995, pp. 932-946
  • with B. Jedynak: An active testing model for tracking roads in satellite images, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Volume 18, 1996, pp. 1-14
  • with Y. Amit: Shape quantization and recognition with randomized trees, Neural computation, Volume 9, 1997, pp. 1545-1588
  • with JT Leek u. a .: Tackling the widespread and critical impact of batch effects in high-throughput data, Nature Reviews Genetics, Volume 11, 2010, pp. 733-739

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Donald Geman in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
personal data
SURNAME Geman, Donald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Geman, Donald Jay (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago