Pioneers: Interview Ingrid Carlbom

Ingrid Carlbom is CEO and Founder of CADESS.AI AB, a company specializing in AI-based support solutions for diagnosis and prognostication of prostate cancer. A Professor Emeritus at Uppsala University, Sweden, she was previously Director of Visual Communications Research in the Multimedia Communications Research Laboratory at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies; Manager of Visualization Research at Digital Equipment Corporation’s Cambridge Research Lab; and Program Leader for the Graphical Modeling Program at Schlumberger-Doll Research.  Prof. Carlbom received a Ph.D. in computer science from Brown University, an M.S. in computer science from Cornell University, and a Fil.Kand. from Stockholm University in Sweden. She has been active in SIGGRAPH as Director, and as Chair of the SIGGRAPH Advisory Board. She served on the editorial boards of IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, and Computers & Graphics, and was Co-Editor-in-Chief of Graphical Models. She chaired the board of the Graduate School in Mathematics and Computing at Uppsala University. She received the Doctor of Philosophy Honoris Causa from Uppsala University, and the Distinguished Graduate School Alumna Award from Brown University. (LinkedIn)