DRAGUTIN PETKOVIC

 

EDUCATION:

-         Ph.D. June 1983, Electrical Eng. UC Irvine CA, in the area of image processing and analysis

-         M.S. EE, 1979, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, in the area of biomedical signal proc.

-         B.S. E.E., 1976, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia

 

EXPERTISE:

-         Media Information Systems and Digital Libraries, Usability and UI, Computer Vision, AI, Software Engineering and Management, Virtual Computing, Systems Management, software product development.

-         Creation and management of academic and research organizations and environments that foster innovation, including vision setting, hiring, funding, day to day management, technology transfer etc.

-         Mentoring, managing and coaching creative people.

-         Passion for innovation, collaborative and multidisciplinary research and technology transfer.

 

SCIENTIFIC ACCOMPLISHMENTS, AWARDS AND HONORS:

-         IEEE Fellow since 1998 (for leadership in content based retrieval area)

-         One of the founders of content-based retrieval area for digital media. Key person behind seminal Query by Image Content (QBIC) (wwwqbic.almaden.ibm.com) project

-         Best Conference paper award at HICSS-33, Hawaii, Jan. 2000 (Multimedia Track).

-         Hermitage Museum WWW site with QBIC voted best in Russia in 2000 (joint with IBM product divisions)

-         Seybold Innovation Award for QBIC product 1995

-         Blue Chip Award from Lou Gerstner, IBM CEO, 1994

-         IBM Research Awards in 1989, 1991, 1993 for technical work

-         Over 55 refereed papers, 11 patents granted

-         VMware WS 3.0: CMP SW. Dev. Magazine Jolt Productivity Award (April 2002); Programmers Paradise award for top selling product (April 2002); Linux Magazine Editor's Choice (September 2001). Responsible for UI and application layer.

 

TEACHING AND MENTORING:

-         Chair of Computer Science department, San Francisco State University since August 2003. Taught SW Engineering and mentored students in collaborative WWW technologies

-         Adjunct Professor at Santa Clara University starting January 2003. Teaching GUI Design and Programming (Winter) and Multimedia Information Systems (Spring).

-         One week Summer School at KU Leuven on Image processing and AI, 1987;

-         Stanford Graduate Class CS545I on Advanced Image and Video Databases (with Prof. Gio Wiederhold): full class 1996, several lectures in 1997, 1998, 1999

-         Lectures in classes of Prof. T. Binford, Prof. P. Dev, Prof.. T. Meng, from Stanford; Prof. P. Mantey UCSC

-         Hired and mentored over 14 Ph.Ds and over 24 summer students and numerous R&D employees

-         Created student exchange programs with KU Leuven (Belgium) and University of Buenos Aires (Argentina)

-         Supervised one Ph.D. and one M.S. student of Prof. R. Brodersen (UCB) and one summer student of Prof. R. Danielson (SCU)

-         Mentored number of summer students while at IBM Almaden Research

-         Can teach broad set of graduate and undergraduate courses in Computer Science and Engineering including but not limited to multimedia systems, computer vision, image and video processing, AI, pattern recognition, software engineering, GUI design and development, human computer interaction, usability engineering, databases, operating systems, computer architectures, as well as software and technology management.

 

 

MANAGERIAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

-         Managerial and leadership experience ranging from industrial research, to startups and to academic departments

-         Over 15 years of scientific individual work and management in IBM Almaden Research Center. Successful initiation, creation, funding and management of several R&D organizations.

-         Very strong communication, hiring and mentoring skills

-         Demonstrated success in technology transfer (from IBM Research into IBM products) and working across organizational boundaries

-         Strong collaborative work with top universities in USA, Europe and Argentina

-         Over 2 years experience in Silicon Valley startups in key R&D management roles. Work included design and delivery of products, department organization, hiring, budgeting etc.

 

 

SELECTED PROJECTS (Current and past)

 

Innovative ways to teach practical and global software engineering

http://www.cs.sfsu.edu/news/Teaching_practical_and_global_Software_Engineering.htm

 

Web collaboration with interactive annotations

 

Community managed WWW site for Hedgehog Gene Pathways (with SFSU Biology Department)

http://hedgehog.sfsu.edu/

 

 

Past:

 

QBIC : Query by Image Content

http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/fcgi-bin/db2www/qbicSearch.mac/qbic?selLang=English

CueVideo: System for automated indexing of video and audio, with advanced search and browse

http://www.almaden.ibm.com/projects/cuevideo.shtml

BlueEyes: Sensor augmented user interfaces

http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/BlueEyes/index.html

 

VMware products: Workstation, and GSX and ESX Servers (responsible for UI, application layer and API)

http://www.vmware.com/products/

DB2 Multimedia Extenders (image and video)

http://www-3.ibm.com/software/data/db2/extenders/aiv/

 

 

CONFERENCES ORGANIZED:

NSF Conference on Visual Information Management Systems 1992 (with Prof. R. Jain and A. Pentland)

 

PROGRAM COMMITTEES:

SPIE 2004, MVA96, 98; CVPR98; IEEE Multimedia 1999, Visual 97, 98, 99; ACM MM 98, 99; SIGIR 99

 

INVITED PLENARY TALKS AND CONFERENCE PANELS:

ICIAP 1997 Florence; CVPR88, CVPR89, CVPR96, CVPR98, SPIE 2005

 

EDITORIAL BOARDS:

Kluwer Int. Journal of MM Tools and Applications; Springer Machine Vision and Applications; IEEE Multimedia (1993)

 

FORMAL JOINT PROJECTS AND COLLABORATION WITH UNIVERSITIES:

UC Davis; Stanford; Florida Atlantic University, Florida; KU Leuven, Belgium; University of Florence, Italy; University of Illinois; University of Manheim, Germany; UC Berkeley; UC Riverside (on Advisory Committee in CRIS), University of Buenos Aires (Argentina) via IBM Argentina. Projects involved research, development of HW/SW, writing joint papers, exchange of equipment and SW, visits of students and professors, grants etc.

 

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:

- IEEE Fellow since 1998, for leadership in content based retrieval

- IAPR Industrial Liaison Committee member

 

REVIEWS:

NSF, IEEE Expert, IEEE PAMI, CVPR, Springer MV&A, Kluwer Int. Journal of MM Tools and Applications, CVGIP, ICPR, IEEE Computer, IEEE MM

 

PRESS AND MEDIA ACTIVITY:

Articles and interviews appeared in: Business Week; PCMagazine; Byte; NewMedia; InfoWorld; Scientific American; Advanced Imaging; Memories Optiques&Systemes; IBM Research Magazine, Seybold Report, Upside

Appeared on Channel 11 KNTV news in a story related to video databases

 

INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS:

One of the key IBM representatives on MPEG-7 ISO standard.

 

 

BRIEF EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

 

Professor and Chair, CS Department August 2003 - present

San Francisco State University

Director, SFSU Center for Computing for Life Sciences (since 2005)

Performing Chair's duties CS Department of about 600 undergraduate students and 150 graduate students such as scheduling, polices, budgeting, hiring, mentoring your faculty etc. Led the development and launch of new graduate program with two new concentrations. Led the establishment of multidisciplinary Center for Computing for Life Science (CCLS), and currently is the Director. Active in establishing collaboration with local industry and Bay Area universities. Hired top quality faculty and lecturers. Teaching SW Engineering class. Individual research work and student supervision in the area of WWW collaborative technology and new ways of teaching practical and global SW engineering.

SFSU Computer Sciencewww.cs.sfsu.edu

SFSU Center for Computing for Life Sciences http://cs.sfsu.edu/ccls/index.html

 

 

 

Adjunct Professor, Santa Clara University January 2003 - July 2003

 

Teaching GUI design and programming in Winter Quarter. The course is structured to cover a) Comprehensive and practical overview of all aspects of GUI design and development, including basic GUI principles, user-centered design methodologies, SW architecture and implementation issues, as well as teamwork, process and management issues; b) Implementation of the above concepts in final class project. Will be teaching Multimedia Information Systems in Spring Quarter.

 

 

VMware, Palo Alto March 2001 - November 2002

Sr. Manager, Applications and UI

 

In charge of application and UI layer of all VMware virtualization products. Led the team which designed and developed UI and application layer for award winning VMware WS 3.0. Led the team that developed APIs, systems management interfaces and browser based UI for all VMware server products. Developed and implemented most modern SW engineering and usability design and implementation techniques and processes. Also in charge of developing QA vertical solution using scripting APIs. Directly managed the team of 15 people. Hired 7 top scientists and programmers as well as 6 summer interns from top universities and mentored them.

 

Dotcast, Palo Alto June 2000 - March 2001

Sr. Director/VP of SW

 

In charge of developing SW infrastructure and applications around Dotcats dNTSC broadcasting technology. Created an organization that consisted of Client Systems and UI, Content Distribution, Content Production and Back Office Integration and hired the whole team. Developed requirements, initial architecture and prototypes, and also worked with marketing and customers.

 

IBM Almaden Research Center June 1983 - June 2000

From Research Staff Member to Sr. Manager

 

Career started in Machine Vision for industrial inspection. In 1989 created a department with three groups: Machine Vision, Foundations of Massively Parallel Computing, and Usability. As individual scientist involved in Computer Vision and multimedia information systems, image and video retrieval (QBIC and CueVideo). Hired the team of top researchers, managed the department and budget, ensured funding (from Research and product divisions). Won several IBM Research funding competitions. Delivered numerous technologies to IBM manufacturing, DB2, IBM Ultimedia products, Digital Library and TrackPoint pointing device for IBM ThinkPads. Work I initiated won numerous formal IBM Research awards and QBIC particularly had strong influence on scientific community. QBIC technology was widely cited in scientific and commercial press and won several external awards. Created QBIC licensing business and licensed it to 20 customers. At the same time I was very active in collaborating with universities, supervising and mentoring students, participating in scientific activities and conferences as well as in international standards like MPEG7.