Yoram Bresler received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. from the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, and the Ph.D. from Stanford University all in electrical engineering. He is currently a Research Professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory and Department of Bioengineering, and Founder Professor Emeritus of ECE at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He is also the founding President and the Chief Technology Officer at InstaRecon, Inc., commercializing breakthrough technology for tomographic reconstruction developed in his academic research. His research interests include machine learning and statistical signal processing and their applications to inverse problems in imaging, including compressed sensing, computed tomography, and magnetic resonance imaging. Dr. Bresler is a fellow of the IEEE, the AIMBE, and IAMBE. His papers have received 4 best paper awards, two of these with his students. In 2016, he was appointed IEEE SPS Distinguished Lecturer.