Stanley Osher

Stanley Joel Osher
Osher in 1968
Born (1942-04-24) April 24, 1942 (age 82)
Known for
Scientific career
FieldsApplied mathematics
Institutions
Doctoral advisorJacob Schwartz
Doctoral students

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.