DMITRY B. GOLDGOF

has received the M.S. degree in Computer Engineering from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 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 and during 2002-2003 he held there a position of Professor in Bioinformatics. 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, Biomedical Imaging and Bioinformatics, and Bioengineering.  More specifically, research interests are related to two broad thrusts. First thrust is the area of nonrigid motion analysis (especially, elastic and fluid motion), with biometrics and security applications. Second thrust is in the area of biomedical image analysis related to tissue segmentation in MR, CT, PET and microscopy images. Additional interests include high performance issues of  image analysis and machine learning algorithms. Dr. Goldgof has graduated 15 Ph.D. and 38 M.S. students, and has published over 65 journal and 140 conference publications (with high citations, h-index is estimated at 30 by harzing.com using Google Scholar), 16 books chapters and edited 4 books. His work has been funded by numerous agencies including NSF, NIH, ONR, DOD, ARDA (IARPA), NIST, FDOT etc.

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. In 2008 Professor Goldgof  was selected for Theodore and Venette Askounes-Ashford Distinguished Scholar Award. Dr. Goldgof was received 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 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 is active professional society activities. He has served on Board of Governors of Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society in 2007. Professor Goldgof is an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B and for  International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (IJPRAI). Dr. Goldgof has served as a North American Editor for Image and Vision Computing Journal (1998-2007), 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), has served as Local Arrangement Chair for ICPR 2008 held in Tampa in December of 2008, many other conferences and workshops.  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 10/16/2009