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Bio

John Saghri received his BS degree in electronic engineering from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, in 1973, his MS degree in electrical and computer engineering from Oregon State University in 1975, and his Ph.D. in electrical and systems engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, in 1979. From 1979 to 1988 he was with the Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, California, where he was an engineering specialist in the Signal Processing Department. In 1988 he joined Lockheed Martin Palo Alto Research Laboratories as a senior scientist in the Electronic Sciences Laboratory. From 1994 through June 2000 he was with the faculty of electrical and computer engineering at Kuwait University, while maintaining his affiliation with Lockheed as a consultant during summers. He joined EE department at Cal Poly in September 2000. Dr. Saghri's technical interests are in computer vision, signal processing, bandwidth compression, and remote sensing. His publication record includes over fifty papers and several textbook chapter contributions. Dr. saghri is a fellow of the International Society of Optical Engineering (SPIE) and a senior member of the IEEE.

Teaching and Research Interests

Digital Image & Signal Processing
Remote Sensing
Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition
Bandwidth Compression & Coding