Sofia Apreleva, Ph.D.

Senior Research Scientist

M.S., Physics, Saint-Petersburg University, 1994

Ph.D., Physics and Mathematics, Saint-Petersburg University, 2002

Dr. Sofia Apreleva joined STI in November 2010. Currently, her duties include development and implementation of image processing techniques related to moving object recognition, pose estimation, feature detection, and others. Dr. Apreleva has formal training as theoretical physicist with an emphasis on mathematical methods of modeling of dynamic systems and solution of inverse problems in physics, data analysis, and statistics.

Her research was focused on solution of tomographic problems in geophysics and medical imaging, including modeling of forward problems using PDEs, development of nonlinear optimization algorithms for large scaled problems, statistical data analysis using classical and Bayesian statistics, and signal processing

Honors and Awards:

• Second Prize for the presentation at the Annual Retreat of the Network for Translational Research in Optical Imaging (NCI) - Team 3, University of Pennsylvania, June 2007
• First Prize for the presentation at the Annual Retreat of the Network for Translational Research in Optical
    Imaging (NCI) - Team 3, University of Pennsylvania, June 2006
• Paper Selected for the cover page image of Applied Optics, Nov. 20, 2006
• Personal Fellowship from the Research Foundation “Universities of Russia”, 2002
• Personal Grant from the Russian Foundation for Fundamental Research (RFFR), 2002
• Personal Grant from the Russian Ministry of Education, 2001
• Personal Grant from the Russian Foundation for Fundamental Research (RFFR), 2001
• Euler Fellowship from Deutcher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (German Academic Exchange Service), Germany, 2001
• Nansen Fellowship from Nansen Center Research Institute, University of Bergen, Norway, 2000