Luis Ibanez
Technical Leader, KITWARE Inc.

Luis Ibáñez is Technical Leader at Kitware, and Science Director at OSEHRA. Luis joined Kitware, Inc. in February 2002 where his is one of the main developers of the Medical Imaging Library ITK coordinating its maintenance with other developers and the user community; he is also one of the main developers of the Image Guided Surgery Toolkit IGSTK and participated in crafting the operational principles of the Insight Journal. Luis Ibáñez is a strong supporter of Open Access), and the verification of reproducibility in scientific publications and is a regular speaker in ITK training courses, and in events disseminating the principles of Open Source.

He has been teaching for three years a course on Open Source Software Practices at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute RPI. He is also an adjunct professor at the State University of New York in Albany, and is teaching: a course on databases and one on web development using open source methodologies.

Luis Ibáñez received a B.S. in Physics from the Universidad Industrial de Santander (Bucaramanga, Colombia) in 1989 and a M.S. in Optics from the same university in 1994. He received a D.E.A and Ph.D. degrees from the Universite de Rennes I (Rennes, France) in 1995 and 2000, respectively.

During his Ph.D., Luis Ibáñez was member of the LATIM laboratory at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications de Bretagne (Brest, France) and was interested in the segmentation of bone joint structures of the limbs for the purpose of studying the relationship between morphology and functionality. He also participated in a project for developing collaborative virtual environments for medical applications.

In 1999, Luis Ibáñez joined the Division of Neurosurgery of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and participated as a member of the MIDAG and CADDLab groups. His work at UNC was related to the development of algorithms for 2 and 3D registration applied to image guided surgery. He also participated as developer of the INSIGHT Registration and Segmentation Toolkit sponsored by the National Library of Medicine.