Joe Schlecht, Ph.D., is a senior software engineer at North Star Imaging, manufacturer of 2D digital radiography and 3D computed tomography systems and provider of need-based X-ray/CT inspection services. Schlecht has bachelor’s and master’s degrees and a Ph.D. in computer science. His research interests include computer vision and machine learning with a focus on probabilistic models for object recognition and scene understanding. He’s also interested in algorithms for statistical inference of models from images and other scientific data. Schlecht is a published co-author of many research papers.