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Linda Shapiro, Professor, Professor of Electrical Engineering, earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Illinois in 1970 and master's and Ph.D degrees in computer science from the University of Iowa in 1972 and 1974, respectively. She was a faculty member in Computer Science at Kansas State University from 1974 to 1978 and at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University from 1979 to 1984. She then spent two years as Director of Intelligent Systems at Machine Vision International in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She joined the University of Washington Electrical Engineering Department in 1986 and the Computer Science and Engineering Department in 1990.

Professor Shapiro's research is in computer vision with related interests in artificial intelligence (search, reasoning, task planning), database (intelligent spatial information systems), languages, and applications to robotics and medicine. She is particularly interested in knowledge-based 3D object recognition and has contributed to both the theory of object matching and to the development of experimental machine vision systems. Her current work involves the automatic generation of matching algorithms from object models and knowledge of the vision task and the environment in which it is to be performed. This work has application to automation tasks (robot guidance and parts inspection) and to reconstruction of internal organs found in CT images.

Professor Shapiro is past editor-in-chief of the journal ``CVGIP: Image Understanding'' and is a member of the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence and of Pattern Recognition. She has been program chair and general chair of several computer vision workshops including the recent IEEE workshop on Directions in Automated CAD-Based Vision. She was conference chair of the 1986 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, and is co-program chairman of the 1994 conference. She has served on the program committees of many workshops and conferences. In addition, she has co-authored a textbook on data structures and has recently completed a new graduate text on computer and robot vision with Robert Haralick.

When not working on academic ventures, Professor Shapiro likes to relax with noncompetitive activities such as gardening, guitar playing, aerobic exercise, hiking, and camping.