Ziv Yaniv is a senior imaging scientist in the Bioinformatics and Computational Biosciences Branch, at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, U.S. National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, and at Guidehouse. He obtained his Ph.D. in computer science from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem Israel, in 2004. Prior to joining NIAID he was a senior computer scientist in the Office of High Performance Computing and Communications, at the National Library of Medicine (2014-2019); a principal investigator at Children's National Hospital in Washington DC (2011-2014); and an assistant professor at the department of radiology, Georgetown university (2006-2011).

Dr. Yaniv is a senior member of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology and IEEE Computer societies. He was chair of the SPIE Medical Imaging: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling conference (2013-2016) and program chair for the Information Processing in Computer Assisted Interventions (IPCAI) 2016 conference. He has served on the program committee of various international conferences in the domains of computer aided interventions and medical image analysis (MICCAI, IPCAI, SPIE MI, IEEE EMBC and others). He has been an associate editor for IET Healthcare Technology Letters since 2013, on the editorial board of Springer's Int. J. Comput. Assist. Radiol. Surg. since 2016 and an associate editor for Frontiers in Radiology, Artificial Intelligence in Radiology since 2023.

He believes in the curative power of open research, and has been involved in development and leadership of free open source software, including the Image-Guided Surgery Toolkit (IGSTK), the Insight Registration and Segmentation toolkit (ITK) and SimpleITK.

Ziv Yaniv is a senior imaging scientist in the Bioinformatics and Computational Biosciences Branch NIAID/NIH and at Guidehouse. He obtained his Ph.D. in computer science from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Over the past 20 years he has conducted research in image-guided surgical interventions, medical image analysis and more recently, microscopy image analysis. He believes in the curative power of open research and has been involved in development and leadership of free open source software, including the Image-Guided Surgery Toolkit, the Insight Registration and Segmentation Toolkit and SimpleITK.

Dr. Ziv Yaniv is a senior imaging scientist in the Bioinformatics and Computational Biosciences Branch NIAID/NIH and at Guidehouse. Ziv's research focuses on bio-medical image analysis and the development of open source software tools (Insight Registration and Segmentation Toolkit and SimpleITK).