Professor Mike Fairhurst

Image analysis; Computer vision; Handwriting analysis; Biometric processing; Neural architectures; Medical image processing

Current

• Member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers
• Chartered Engineer
• Member, Executive Committee of IEE VIE Professional Network
• Co-Chairman, Organising Committee for ICDAR International Conference 2003
• External examiner for research degrees at many universities in Britain and elsewhere  
  

Previous

• Chairman, IEE IPA Conference (1992, 1995, 1997, 1999)
• Member, Programme Committee for ICDAR International Conference (1998, 2000)
• Chairman, IEE PG Committee E4 (Image Processing and Vision) (1989-95) 
• Member, IEE PG Committee S9 (Biomedical Engineering) (1987-1990) 
• Member, Organising Committee for BMVC90 (1990) Executive Committee of SRC TACC for Image Processing (1989-1993)
• Member, EPSRC first IT and Computing Peer Review College (1995-1997)
• Member of EPSRC IT and Computing Peer Review College (1997-2000) 
• Member, Organising Committee, IEE ECOS Conference (1995, 1997)
• Co-Chairman, IEE European Workshop Series on Handwriting Analysis and Recognition (1994, 1996, 1998) 
• Member, IEE Profession Group E4 (Image Processing and Vision) (1999) 
• Member, IEE Conference and Vacation Schools Committee (to 1999)
• Member, Programme Committee for 5th and 6th IGS Conference
• Member, Programme Committee for 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th IWFHR International Workshops (1996, 1998, 2000, 2002) 
• Editorial Board Member of four international journals
• Academic representative on Board of Association for Biometrics Academic member of DTI Technology Mission to DTI (2001)
• Member, UK Biometrics Working Group