DMITRY B. GOLDGOF

has received the M.S. degree in Computer Engineering from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1985 and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in 1989. He is currently Professor  and Associate Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of South Florida.  Professor Goldgof is also a member of H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute at USF and during 2002-2003 he held a position of Professor in Bioinformatics, Cancer Control at H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center. Professor Goldgof has served as Director of Graduate Studies for the department 1999-2002 and again in 2006. During 1995-1996, he held a visiting positions at the Department of Computer Science at the University of California at Santa Barbara and at the Department of Computer Science at University of Bern in Switzerland. Professor Goldgof research interests include Image and Video Analysis, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Bioinformatics and Bioengineering. Dr. Goldgof has graduated 12 Ph.D. and 35 M.S. students, and has published over 55 journal and over 120 conference publications, 16 books chapters and edited 4 books.

Professor Goldgof is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) with citation ”for contributions to computer vision and biomedical applications”. Professor Goldgof has served as IEEE Distinguished Visitor 2004-2006. Professor Goldgof was awarded Annual Pattern Recognition Society Awards (for best papers) in 1993 and 2002. His paper entitled "Automatic tumor segmentation using knowledge-based techniques" was selected by International Medical Informatics Association for 2000 IMIA Yearbook containing "the best of medical informatics". Dr. Goldgof was named IEEE Distinguished Visitor  for 2004 through 2006. In 2002 Dr Goldgof was granted US patent entitled "Computer Vision-Based Technique for Objective Assessment of Material Properties in Non-Rigid Objects", patent number 6594381.  Professor Goldgof was selected  Favorite Professor by USF chapter of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars in 2001. Together with two of his doctoral students Professor Goldgof was honored by USF Outstanding Dissertation Awards in 1999 (Dr. Leonid Tsap) and 2002 (Dr. Min Shin). Professor Goldgof was a winner of USF Outstanding Young Investigator Award in 1993.

Professor Goldgof  is a Fellow of IEEE and has been involved in numerous professional society activities. Current he is on Board of Governors of Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society. Professor Goldgof is North American Editor for Image and Vision Computing Journal and Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B. Dr. Goldgof has served as a member of the Editorial Board of the Pattern Recognition (1990-2001), member of International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR) Education Committee (2000 - 2002), Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (1996-1998) and Editor of IEEE PAMI TC Newsletter (1993-1996). Dr. Goldgof is also involved in organization of numerous professional conferences and workshops such as International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2004 and 2006),  IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2003 and 2005), International Conference on Bioinformatics and its Applications (ICBA 2004), and many others.  Currently, Professor Goldgof is a Local Arrangement Chair for ICPR 2008 to be held in Tampa in December of 2008. In addition, Dr. Goldgof is current or past member of SPIE, OSA, Pattern Recognition Society, and the Honor Societies of of Phi Kappa Phi and Tau Beta Pi.

last updated 05/25/2007