Stanley Osher

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Stanley Joel Osher
Osher in 1968
Born	(1942-04-24) April 24, 1942 (age 82) Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Known for	Level-set method Shock-capturing methods image processing L1/TV methods Bregman method
Scientific career
Fields	Applied mathematics
Institutions	UCLA SUNY, Stony Brook UC Berkeley
Doctoral advisor	Jacob Schwartz
Doctoral students	Rosa Donat Ron Fedkiw Chiu-Yen Kao Chi-Wang Shu

Stanley Osher (born April 24, 1942) is an American mathematician, known for his many contributions in shock capturing, level-set methods, and PDE-based methods in computer vision and image processing. Osher is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Director of Special Projects in the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) and member of the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at UCLA.