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Dmitry B. Goldgof

D. Goldgof

Distinguished University Professor and Vice Chair

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Biography

Dmitry B. Goldgof is an educator and scientist working in the area of Medical Image Analysis, Image and Video Processing, Computer Vision, Deep Learning and AI. Dr. Goldgof is currently Distinguished University Professor and Vice Chair in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of South Florida in Tampa. Dr. Goldgof has graduated 36 Ph.D. and 48 MS students, holds 14 patents, published over 120 journal and 260 conference papers, 20 book chapters and edited 5 books (over 18,500 citations, h-index 65, i10-index 24). Professor Goldgof is a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of IAPR, a Fellow of AAAS, Fellow of AAIA and a Fellow of AIMBE.

Research Interests

Medical image analysis; image and video processing; computer vision and pattern recognition; ethics and computing; bioinformatics and bioengineering

Teaching Interests

Medical image analysis; image and video processing; computer vision and pattern recognition; ethics and computing; bioinformatics and bioengineering

Education

PhD in Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1989)
MS in Computer and Systems Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1985)
BS in Computer Science, Moscow Forest Engineering Institute (1979)

Honors and Awards

  • Keynote Speaker, Mitigating Shortcut Learning of Deep Neural Networks in Medical Image Analysis,2022 11th International Conference on Computer Technologies and Development, Barcelona, Spain, 10/2022
  • Invited Lecture, ”Image Processing, Deep Learning and AI”, Ben-Gurion University, Beersheba, Israel, 11/2021, 5/2022
  • Awarded Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), 2021
  • Keynote Talk, Explaining Deep Learning Using Radiologist Defined Semantic Features, Workshop on Open Challenges In Deep Learning For Biomedical Image Analysis, Virtual IEEE EMBS Conference, Montral, Canada, 7/2020
  • Invited Lecture, ”Digital Image Processing”, Ben-Gurion University, Beersheba, Israel, 12/2019, 12/2020, 6/2021
  • Invited Panel Participant, AI + Healthcare Panel, USF Corporate Forum: Artificial Intelligence + X, Tampa, FL, 2/26/2020
  • Excellence in Innovation Award, USF, 2020
  • Invited Lecture, ”Healthcare in the Age of AI and Deep Learning: Automatic Assessment of Neonatal Pain”, Ben-Gurion University, Beersheba, Israel, 8/2019.
  • Invited Lecture, ”Healthcare in the Age of AI and Deep Learning: Automatic Assessment of Neonatal Pain”, Johns Hopkins All Childrens Hospital, St. Petersburg, FL, 6/2019.
  • Outstanding Faculty Award, USF, 2019
  • Distinguished University Professor Lecture, ”Healthcare in the Age of AI and Deep Learning: Automatic Assessment of Neonatal Pain”, USF, 3/2019
  • Named Distinguished University Professor, University of South Florida, 2018
  • Invited Talk, ”Automatic Assessment of Neonatal Pain”, Polytechnic Univ of Bari, Bari, Italy, 5/2018
  • 2017 Outstanding Research Achievement Award, College of Engineering, Univ of South Florida, 2018
  • Elected, College of Fellows, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), 2017
  • Awarded Fellow status by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) ”for distinguished contribution to the fields of computer vision, pattern recognition and biomedical applications, particularly in biomedical image analysis”, 2016
  • Member-at-Large (elected by SMC members), Board of Governors, Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society (2007, 2010 - 2011,  2015 - 2017)
    Invited Talk, UCR IGERT Retreat on Video Bioinformatics, Lake Arrowhead, CA (October 2014)
  • Awarded Fellow status by International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR)" for contributions to computer vision, pattern recognition, and biomedical engineering" (effective 2010)
  • USF Academy of Inventors, Charter Member, USF (2009)
  • Theodore and Venette Askounes-Ashford Distinguished Scholar Award, USF (2008)
  • Elevated to the Fellow status by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) "for contributions to computer vision and biomedical applications" (effective January 2007)
  • IEEE Distinguished Visitor Program (DVP) (2004 - 2006)
  • Together with two of his recent doctoral students Professor Goldgof was honored by USF Outstanding Dissertation Awards in 1999 (Dr. Leonid Tsap) and 2002 (Dr. Min Shin)
  • Paper "Automatic tumor segmentation using knowledge-based techniques" selected by International Medical Informatics Association for 2000 IMIA Yearbook containing "the best of medical informatics"
  • Nineteenth Annual Pattern Recognition Society Award (1993)
    University of South Florida, College of Engineering Outstanding Young Investigator Award (1992 - 1993)
  • General Electric Foundation Teaching Incentive Award (1988)

Key Activities

  • IEEE Press Editorial Board (2012 - 2014, 2015 - 2017 terms)
  • Associate Editor - IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (2001 - present)
  • Associate Editor - International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (2008 - present)
  • NIH,Quantitative Imaging Network (QIN), Image Analysis & Performance Metrics Working Group (IAPMWG) (member 2010 - present, Co-Chair 2011-2013, Pet/CT Working Group, Co-Chair 2016 - 2017)
  • Member of IEEE SMC Society Fellows Evaluation Committee (2014 - 2017)
  • Managing Guest Editor, Pattern Recog. Letters, Special Issue: Depth Image Analysis (December 2014)
  • RSNA, Quantitative Imaging Biomarkers Alliance (QIBA), Algorithm Comparison Group (2012 - 2013)
  • Member of IEEE Computer Society Fellows Evaluation Committee (2008, 2009, 2011 - 2013)
  • North American Editor - Image and Vision Computing (1998 - 2007)
  • Image and Vision Computing, Special Issue on Articulated and Non-rigid motion, Edited by Dimitris Metaxas, Chandra Kambhamettu and Dmitry Goldgof, 25(3) (2007)
  • Founding Member - Translational Bioinformatics Focused Interaction Group at H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute (2003 - 2005)
  • Provost Academic Review Team for the Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware (2002 - 2003)
  • International Association of Pattern Recognition Education Committee (2000 - 2002)
  • Associate Editor - PATTERN RECOGNITION (1990 - 2001)
  • Associate Editor - IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (1996 - 1998)