Benjamin B. Kimia is an associate professor in the Division of Engineering at Brown University. He is also the associate director of the Laboratory for Engineering Man/Machine Systems (LEMS), an interdisciplinary  group focused on signal and image processing, control, multimedia, and computer engineering. Dr. Kimia received the B.Eng. Honors degree from McGill University, Montreal, Canada in 1982, followed by M. Eng. (1986) and Ph.D. (1991) degrees  in the areas of Computer Vision and Image Processing. Prof. Kimia's current research interests are focused on mathematical, psychophysical, neurophysiological, and computational models for visual processing with applications to medical imaging, indexing into large image databases using shape, and digital archaeology. His research program is based on symmetry-based representations of 2D and 3D images for segmentation, recognition, categorization, registration, and    visualization.