Charles Bouman, the Showalter Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, has been named Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. The organization announced the fellows on December 15th.

Professor Bouman’s research is on statistical signal and image processing in applications ranging from medical to scientific and consumer imaging. His research resulted in the first commercial model-based iterative reconstruction (MBIR) system for medical computed tomography (CT) and demonstrated its potential for dramatic X-ray dosage reduction. He is a fellow of the IEEE, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, the Society for Imaging Science and Technology and the SPIE professional society. In 2014 he received the Electronic Imaging Scientist of the Year award. He was previously editor-in-chief for the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing and a distinguished lecturer for the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He is currently vice president of technical activities for IEEE Signal Processing Society. He also is a founding co-director of Purdue’s Magnetic Resonance Imaging Facility located in the Purdue Research Park. He joined the Purdue faculty in 1989 and holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, a master’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley and a doctoral degree from Princeton University.

Professor Bouman joins previously named NAI fellow Jan P. Allebach, the Hewlett-Packard Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

The National Academy of Inventors was founded in 2010 to recognize researchers at universities and non-profit institutes who translate their research findings into inventions that may benefit society. With the induction of the 2015 class, there are now more than 80 presidents and senior leaders of research universities and non-profit research institutes, 310 members of the other National Academies (NAS, NAE, NAM), 27 inductees of the National Inventors Hall of Fame, 32 recipients of the U.S. National Medal of Technology and Innovation and U.S. National Medal of Science, 27 Nobel Laureates, 14 Lemelson-MIT prize recipients, 170 AAAS Fellows, and 98 IEEE Fellows, among other awards and distinctions.