Andrew Laine received his D.Sc. degree from Washington University (St.Louis) School of Engineering and Applied Science in Computer Science, in 1989 and BS degree from Cornell University (Ithaca).  He was a Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering at the University of Florida (Gainesville) from 1990-1997.  He is presently the Director of the Heffner Biomedical Imaging Laboratory in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University in New York City. Since 2001 he has served as Vice Chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Columbia.  He holds a joint appointment in the Department of Radiology as Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology (Physics).  Professor Laine pioneered the application of multiresolution representations for feature analysis of digital mammography and ultrasound.  He served as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Image Processing and edited the book, “Wavelet Theory and Applications”, Kluwer, 1995. He has jointly chaired the SPIE conference on “Mathematical Imaging: Wavelet Application in Signal and Image Processing”, during the years 1993-2005, and co-authored several book chapters including “Wavelet Applications in Medicine and Biology”, CRC Press, 1995, and “Time-Frequency and Wavelets Transforms in Biomedical Engineering,” IEEE Press, 1998. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the book series Emerging Technologies in Biomedical Engineering, sponsored by the IEEE-EMBS Society. He also served on the program committee for the IEEE-EMBS Workshop on Wavelet Applications in Medicine in 1994, 1998, 1999, and 2004.  His research interests include methods of multiresolution analysis applied to problems in medical imaging, image processing, computed aided diagnosis, pattern recognition, and applied mathematics.