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Guillermo Sapiro received his B.Sc. (summa cum laude), M.Sc., and Ph.D. from the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. Following post-doctoral research at MIT, he joined HP Labs in Palo Alto, where he co-developed the image compression techniques used in the original Mars Rovers expedition. He later served at the University of Minnesota as Distinguished McKnight University Professor and Vincentine Hermes-Luh Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Currently, he is a faculty member at Duke University. Sapiro has received numerous prestigious awards, including the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award (1998), the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (1998, presented by President Clinton at the White House), the National Science Foundation Career Award (1999), the National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowship (2010), and the Test of Time Award (2011) for his contributions to image segmentation. His algorithms are integrated into Adobe products, widely used medical imaging software like ITK, and are operational on Mars. A seasoned educator with over 15 years of experience teaching image processing, Sapiro has delivered plenary talks and short courses at leading imaging and applied mathematics conferences. He is also the founding Editor-in-Chief of the SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences, one of the highest-impact journals in applied mathematics.