Robert AZENCOTT Professor of Mathematics, University of Houston, USA Emeritus Professor, Ecole Normale Superieure , France email: razencot@math.uh.edu Tel: 1 832 330 4706 and 1 713 743 3489 Fax: 1 713 753 3505

Current Research interests

Maths and Biosciences : Genomics and Proteomics
Modelling Genes interaction networks from high-throughput data
Random mutations and adaptation paths for architectures of Genes Networks

Maths and Biosciences : Nanotechnologies
Low weight proteome : Automated classification of Mass Spectra
Stochastic approximation of convection-diffusion transport in capillaries

Maths and Biosciences : Medical Imaging
CT-images of blood vessels : Identification of atherosclerotic plaque
Intra-Cardiac echographies : Extraction of myocardium strain evolution
Doppler Cardiac echographies : Detection of abnormal myocardium strains

Computational Image analysis :
Textures Identification and Segmentation
Diffeomorphic Deformations and Matching of soft 3D-shapes
Extraction of Deformations fields from 3D-movies of soft shapes
Automated Shape Recognition

Data Mining and Automatic Learning :
Automatic classification : Positive Kernels and Support Vector Machines
Mutual Information and Causality analysis
Robust Statistical Modelling of Large Data sets
Automatic Pattern Recognition for Multi-Sensors Diagnosis

Probability theory :
Large Deviations and rare events
Gibbs-Markov Random Fields
Perturbations of Stochastic Differential Equations
Dynamics of stochastic Neural Networks