The Electro-optics Sensors And Systems Committee covers technical areas of passive and active optical sensors, optical systems, analog and hybrid optical processing systems, image recognition systems, biomedical optical information processing systems, active and passive imaging systems, optical storage/memory based systems, high speed optical information processing systems, holographic based information systems, digital holography, three dimensional imaging systems, three dimensional display, three dimensional image processing, three dimensional visualization, computational imaging systems, optical encryption systems, optics for biometrics sensing and verification, and optical security systems.

Biography of Bahram Javidi:

Dr. Bahram Javidi is Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Connecticut. Dr. Javidi is fellow of the Institute Of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA), and fellow of the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE). In 1990, the National Science Foundation named him a Presidential Young Investigator. He received the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Distinguished Lecturer Award in 2003. He was the recipient of the IEEE Best Journal Paper Award from IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology in 2002. He has been awarded the University of Connecticut Alumni Association Excellence in Research Award, The Chancellor's Research Excellence Award, and the first Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Outstanding Research Award. Dr. Javidi has completed several books including, "Optical and Digital Techniques For Information Security," to be published by Springer in 2004; "Image Recognition: Algorithms, Systems, and Applications," published in 2002 by Marcel-Dekker, New York; "Three Dimensional Television, Video, and Display Technologies," published by Springer Verlag in 2002; "Smart Imaging Systems," published by SPIE Press in 2001; "Real-time Optical Information Processing," published in 1994 by Academic Press, and "Optical Pattern Recognition," published by SPIE Press in 1994. He has published over 160 technical articles in major journals, which have been cited over 1900 times. He has published over 190 conference proceedings, including over 60 invited conference papers, and 60 invited presentations. His papers have appeared in Physics Today and Nature, and his research has been cited in IEEE Spectrum, Science, New Scientist, and National Science Foundation. Dr. Javidi received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from George Washington University, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Pennsylvania State University.