Joost Batenburg

Joost Batenburg is a Professor at Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), with a chair in Imaging and Visualization. He is affiliated with the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) and serves as Program Director for the interdisciplinary Society, Artificial Intelligence and Life Sciences (SAILS) initiative. His research focuses on tomographic image processing and reconstruction, where he has published over 80 journal articles and 60 conference papers.

• Current projects include Universal Three-dimensiOnal Passport for process Individualization in Agriculture (UTOPIA) and Center for Optimal, Real-Time Machine Studies of the Explosive Universe (CORTEX), both funded by NWO grants.
• He leads the FleX-Ray Lab, a custom CT system integrated with advanced data processing algorithms.

His research spans discrete tomography, real-time imaging pipelines, and AI-enhanced reconstruction methods, with applications in industrial inspection, agricultural analysis, and cultural heritage conservation. Recent articles demonstrate novel approaches to:

• Single-shot dynamic object tomography using level-set methods and motion modeling
• X-ray scattering quantification for defect detection in real-time systems
• Cross-modal image registration between CT scans and physical photographs
• Auto-differentiation in CT workflows combining classical and machine learning algorithms

Scientific Awards:

• Dutch Award for ICT Research (2018)
• C.J. Kok Prize (2007)
• Philips Mathematics Prize (2006)

He has supervised numerous PhD candidates including Mary Go, Eani Lachmansingh, and Zhichao Zhong, while maintaining editorial roles at IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging and Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision. His work bridges theoretical mathematics with practical applications in agriculture, industry, and art conservation.