Contact information
Phone: 519-888-4567 x35037
Email: jorchard@uwaterloo.ca
Webpage: Jeff Orchard's website
Cross-appointed to Applied Mathematics
Education
PhD,
Simon
Fraser
University,
Computing
Science
(2003)
MSc,
University
of
British
Columbia,
Applied
Mathematics
(1996)
BMath,
Waterloo,
Applied
Mathematics
(1994)
Research
Dr.
Orchard's
research
interests
centre
on
complex
systems,
and
the
emergence
of
order.
He
directs
this
interest
to
the
study
of
living
systems,
with
a
particular
interest
in
the
theory
of
evolution,
and
cognitive
neuroscience.
His
current
research
thrust
is
to
understand
the
brain
by
studying
neural
networks
and
their
associated
learning
algorithms.
He
has
also
done
research
in
the
area
of
image
processing
and
medical
imaging,
where
he
has
published
a
number
of
papers
on
image
registration,
image
reconstruction
for
magnetic
resonance
imaging
(MRI)
and
computed
tomography
(CT),
denoising,
image
mosaicking,
and
forensic
image
processing.