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Allen Tannenbaum, Ph.D.

State University of New York at Stony Brook

(1953–2023)

Allen Tannenbaum was an applied mathematician and Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics & Statistics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He was also an Affiliate Attending Computer Scientist of Medical Physics at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. Dr. Tannenbaum performed research in numerous areas including robust control, computer vision, and biomedical imaging, having more than 500 publications. He pioneered the field of robust control with the solution of the gain margin and phase margin problems using techniques from Nevanlinna–Pick interpolation theory, which was the first H-infinity type control problem solved. He was one of the first to introduce partial differential equations in computer vision and biomedical imaging co-inventing an affine-invariant heat equation for image enhancement. Dr. Tannenbaum and collaborators further formulated a new approach to optimal mass transport (Monge-Kantorovich) theory. He developed techniques using graph curvature ideas for analyzing the robustness of complex networks. His work won several awards including IEEE Fellow, O. Hugo Schuck Award of the American Automatic Control Council, and the George Taylor Award for Distinguished Research from the University of Minnesota. He gave numerous plenary talks at major conferences including the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control of the IEEE Control Systems Society, and the International Symposium on the Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS).

Related Research:

Brain Entry and Exit Consortium: Central Nervous System Fluid Homeostasis and Waste Clearance in Alzheimer’s Disease Characterized by MRI Helene Benveniste Allen Tannenbaum David Xianfeng Gu 2022-05-09 Brain Entry and Exit Consortium: Glymphatic-Lymphatic Coupling in Alzheimer’s Disease Helene Benveniste Allen Tannenbaum 2022-02-10

Funded Research

These projects were made possible from Cure Alzheimer's Fund support.

Project Description Researchers Funding
Brain Entry and Exit Consortium: Central Nervous System Fluid Homeostasis and Waste Clearance in Alzheimer’s Disease Characterized by MRI 2022, 2023

$490,485
Brain Entry and Exit Consortium: Glymphatic-Lymphatic Coupling in Alzheimer’s Disease 2021

$164,730

Selected Publications

These published papers resulted from Cure Alzheimer’s Fund support.

Zhu, J., Veeraraghavan, H., Jiang, J., Oh, J. H., Norton, L., Deasy, J. O., & Tannenbaum, A. Wasserstein HOG: Local Directionality Extraction via Optimal Transport, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, October 24, 2023, Read More

Chen, X., Tran, A. P., Elkin, R., Benveniste, H., & Tannenbaum, A. R. Visualizing Fluid Flows via Regularized Optimal Mass Transport with Applications to Neuroscience, Journal of Scientific Computing, September 19, 2023, Read More

Zhu, J., Oh, J. H., Simhal, A. K., Elkin, R., Norton, L., Deasy, J. O., & Tannenbaum, A. Geometric graph neural networks on multi-omics data to predict cancer survival outcomes, Computers in Biology and Medicine, June 9, 2023, Read More

Ozturk, B., Koundal, S., Al Bizri, E., Chen, X., Gursky, Z. H., Dai, F., Lim, A. S., Heerdt, P., Kipnis, J., Tannenbaum, A., Lee, H., & Benveniste, H. Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) increases CSF flow and glymphatic transport, JCI Insight, May 9, 2023, Read More

Weistuch, C., Zhu, J., Deasy, J. O., & Tannenbaum, A. R. The maximum entropy principle for compositional data, BMC Bioinformatics, October 29, 2022, Read More

Zhao, L., Tannenbaum, A., Bakker, E. N. T. P., & Benveniste, H. Physiology of Glymphatic Solute Transport and Waste Clearance from the Brain, Physiology, September 15, 2022, Read More

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