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Edward Ashton specializes in algorithm development for oncology and neurology applications for VirtualScopics. He has extensive custom software development experience in both biomedical imaging and military surveillance and reconnaissance. Dr. Ashton is a frequent speaker at international imaging conferences and has authored many peer-reviewed publications of his research at VirtualScopics. Prior to VirtualScopics he was a lead signal processing engineer at The MITRE Corporation in McLean VA. Earlier in his career Dr. Ashton spent three years as a research engineer with the Naval Research Laboratory where he received the Alan Berman Research Publication Award and was nominated for the Edison Award for Applied Science. Dr. Ashton has produced numerous articles on target detection and image analysis with military applications including a chapter on hyperspectral target identification in the recently published textbook Information Processing for Remote Sensing. He received both his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Rochester and his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Loyola College. Additionally he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow as well as a Sproul Fellow at the University of Rochester. | 