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- ROBERT A. GONSALVES
Chair, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Tufts University
161 College Avenue
Medford, MA 02155
EDUCATION:
1956 B. S. Electrical Engineering, Tufts University, Medford, MA
1961 M.S. Electrical Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA
1965 Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA
EMPLOYMENT:
1956-1959 Officer, U.S. Navy; USS Destroyer, Brownson, DD 868; Instructor at OCS, Newport, RI
1959-1962 Staff Member, RCA, Burlington, MA
1962-1985 Teaching Assistant, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor, Electrical Engineering Department, Northeastern University, Boston, MA
1976 Visiting Professor, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland
1984 Visiting Professor, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
1985-1996 President and Founder, Lexitek, Inc., Woburn, MA
1985-present Professor, Chairman (since 1996), Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Director, Electro-Optics Technology Center (1985-1994) Tufts University, Medford, MA
CONSULTING, SUMMER WORK:
1965 Instrument Development Labs, Attleboro, MA
1966 Itek Corporation, Lexington, MA
1966-1967 Bell Telephone Laboratories, North Andover, MA
1967-1968 Sanders Associates, Nashua, NH
1968-1969 Raytheon Company, Norwood, MA
1969-1970 The Mitre Corporation, Bedford, MA
1969-1988 Ektron, Eikonix, Kodak Companies, Burlington, MA
1980 Lecturer, Boston University, Boston, MA
1982 Fairchild Camera, Syosett, NY
1984 Martin Marietta Company, Denver, CO
1984-1985 Lockheed Company, Palo Alto, CA
1985-1986 ERIM, Ann Arbor, MI
1986-1995 Mission Research Corporation, Nashua, NH
1987-1988 Betagen Corp., Waltham, MA
1987 Phase One Development Corporation, Newton, MA
1989 A. J. Devaney Associates, Boston, MA
1990-1991 NASA, Hubble Space Telescope, Working Group on Image Processing
1992-1994 Analogic Corporation, Peabody, MA
PUBLICATIONS:
"Autocorrelation-Invariant Functions", Proceedings of the IRE, June 1964.
"Data Transmission by PAM through a Channel that has been Randomly Selected", Proceedings of the IEEE, September 1967 (co-author: D. W. Tufts).
"Maximum-Likelihood Receiver for Digital Data Transmission", IEEE Transactions on Communication Technology, June 1968.
"Data Transmission Through a Random Noisy Channel by PAM", IEEE Transmission on Communication Technology, June 1968 (co-author: D. W. Tufts).
"Bounds on the Variation and Bandwidth of a Bandlimited Signal", IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, July 1969.
"Performance of Manchester Coded FSK", IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, June 1970.
"Spatial Filtering with Amplitude-Distorted Vander Lugt Filters", Optical Engineering, Vol. 12, No. 2, March-April 1973 (co-author: R. Dumais).
"On Optimal Holographic Filters", Proc. SPIE, Vol. 45, March 1974 (co-authors: R. Dumais, P. Considine).
"Spot Shaping and Incoherent Optical Smoothing for Raster Scanned Imagery", Optical Engineering, February 1976 (co-author: P. Considine).
"Cramer-Rao Bounds on Mensuration Errors", Applied Optics, March 1976.
"Phase Retrieval from Modulus Data", Journal Optical Society of America, September 1976.
"Optical Character Recognition of Degraded Font", 1977 SPIE Annual Convention Record, San Diego CA, August 1977 (co-authors: P. Considine and A. Shea).
"Prediction and Removal of Adjacency Effects from Photographic Image", Photographic Science and Engineering, January/February 1977 (co-authors: M. Silevitch and D. Ehn).
"Intelligent Computers", Galileo, July 1978.
"Applications of Optical Data Processing", Springer Verlag, Berlin, 1978 (contributing author, editor D. Casasent).
"Fixed Error Encoding for Bandwidth Compression", Proc. SPIE, Vol. 149, August 1978 (co-authors: T. Huang, A. Shea, N. Evans, E. Delp).
"Coding for Machine Readable-Human Readable Pictures", Proc. SPIE, Vol. 149, August 1978 (co-author: A. Shea).
"Location and Orientation of Noise Discontinuities by Constrained Clustering", Proc. SPIE, Vol. 149, August 1978 (co-authors: J. Finley, T. Bilotta).
"Bounded Error Data Compression at Constant Rate", ITC 1978 Conference Record, November 1978 (co-authors: N. Evans, A. Shea).
"Lateral Inhibition in Imaging Systems to Emulate the Biological Process", 1979 SPSE Conference Record, January 1979 (co-author: H. Liff).
"Wavefront Sensing by Phase Retrieval", Proc. SPIE, Vol. 207, August 1979 (co-author: R. Chidlaw).
"Generation of Random Images with Controlled Statistics", Proc. SPIE, Vol. 207, August 1979 (co-authors: T. Lianza, A. Masia).
"Bounded Error Coding of Cosine Transformed Images", Proc. SPIE, Vol. 207, August 1979 (co-author: A. Shea).
"Image Compression with Approximate Transform Implementation", Proc. SPIE, Vol. 249, August 1980 (co-author: G. Johnson).
"Phase Coded Imaging", Proc. SPIE, Vol. 249, August 1980.
"EPPL, A User-Oriented Picture Processing Language", Proc. SPIE, Vol. 271, February 1981, (co-authors: P. Tracy, R.Chidlaw).
"Digital Image Processing in Education", Proc. SPIE, Vol. 301, August 1981.
"Fundamentals of Wavefront Estimation by Phase Retrieval", Proc. SPIE, Vol. 351, August 1982.
"Phase Retrieval and Diversity in Adaptive Optics", Optical Engineering, Sept./Oct. 1982.
"Locally Adaptive Enhancement, Binarization and Segmentation of Images for Machine Vision", Proc. SPIE, Vol. 504, August 1984 (co-author: A. Lehar).
"Phase Retrieval", Invited Paper, Proc. SPIE, Vol. 528, January 1985.
"Maximum Entropy Image Restoration: Formulated as a Correction Team to the Inverse Filter Solution", Proc. SPIE, Vol. 697, August 1986 (co-author: H. M. Kao).
"Pattern Recognition Techniques for Finding the Address on Letters and Parcels", Proc. SPIE, Vol. 755, January 1987 (co-author: A. Lehar).
"Phase Retrieval by Differential Intensity Measurements", J. Opt. Soc. of America, January 1987.
"IRAS Image Reconstruction and Restoration", Proc. SPIE, Vol. 804, March 1987 (co-authors: J. Kennealy, S. Price, R. Korte, T. Lyons, P. Levan, G. Aumann).
"An Entropy-Based Algorithm for Reducing Artifacts in Image Restoration", Optical Engineering, April 1987 (co-author: H. M. Kao).
"Entropy-Based Image Restoration: Modifications and Additional Results", Proc. SPIE, Vol. 829, August 1987 (co-authors: R. Korte, J, Kennealy).
"PC-Based Image Restoration," Proc. SPIE, Vol. 974, August 1988 (co-author: J. Kennealy).
"Effect of variation of laser writer parameters on simulated output copy", Proc. SPIE, Vol. 1099, March 1989 (co-authors: J. Hogan, et. al.).
"Hubble Space Telescope Image Processing: An Overview of Algorithms for Image Restoration," Proc. SPIE, vol. 1567, July 1991 (co-author: P. Nisenson).
"Fluorescent Computed Tomography: A Model for Correction of x-ray Absorption," IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol. 38, No.6. December 1991 (co-authors: J. Hogan and A. Krieger).
"Detection and Estimation of mRNA using a Non-linear Model in Neurons Labeled by in-situ Hybridization Histochemistry," NeuroImage, Vol. 1, No. 1 (1993) (co-authors: S. Zaccheo and R. Kream).
"Micro-Computed Tomography: Removal of Translational Stage Backlash," IEEE Trans. on Nuclear Science, Vol. 40, No. 3, Part II, June 1993 (co-authors: J. Hogan and A. Krieger).
"Non-Isoplanatic Imaging with phase diversity", Optics Letters, April, 1994.
"High Resolution Measurements from Hubble Space Telescope Power Spectra," Proceedings of HST Images and Spectra, II, Baltimore, MD, 1994 (co-authors: P. Nisenson, E. Falco, and S. Ebstein)
"Estimating the Cramer-Rao Bound for Restored Astronomical Observations," The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 495, February 1995. (co-authors: T. S. Zaccheo, S. Ebstein, and P. Nisenson).
"Estimating the Cramer-Rao Bound for Restored Astronomical Observations: Application to the Richardson - Lucy Algorithm," Astrophy. Journal, Vol. 458, No. 2, February 1996. (co-authors: S. Zaccheo, S. Ebstein, and P. Nisenson).
"Iterative Maximum Likelihood Estimators for Positively Constrained Objects," Journal Optical Society of America, Vol. 13, No. 2, February 1996. (co-author: S. Zaccheo).
"Compensation of scintillation with a phase-only adaptive optic," Optics Letters, Vol. 22, No. 9, May1, 1997.
PRESENTATIONS AND SIGNIFICANT TECHNICAL REPORTS:
"Maximum-likelihood Detection in a Binary Channel with Memory," AFCRL Report 63-313, EE Department, Northeastern University, July 1963 (Co-author W. Lob). (Derivation of a detector which uses decision feedback.)
"Final Report of the Communication Theory Group," AFCRL Report-64-12, EE Department, Northeastern University, December 1964. (Contributing author, Editor: S. H. Chang). (Analog implementation of a receiver with decision feedback.)
"Laguerre Functions of the First Kind in Signal Design and Representation", IEEE First Annual Communications Convention Digest, June 1965.
"Implementation and Performance of the Maximum-likelihood Detector in a Channel with Intersymbol Inteference," AFCRL Report 66-586, EE Department, Northeastern University, August 1966.
"Maximum-Likelihood Receiver for Digital Data Transmission", IEEE Third Annual Communications Convention Digest, June 1967.
"Voice Response Units in the Cockpit", AIAA Digital Avionics Systems Conference, April 1975 (co-authors: R. Dever, S. Apsell).
"The Impact of Robotics", NSF RANN2 Meeting Digest, Vol. 3, November 1976.
"A Technology Assessment of Robots", 7th International Symposium on Industrial Robots, Tokyo, Japan, October 1977 (coauthors: H. Liff and S. Kurlat).
"Application of Phase Retrieval Techniques to Adaptive Imaging Systems", Optical Society of America Meeting, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 1977 (co-authors: A. Devaney and R. Chidlaw), Abstract in JOSA, October 1977.
"Robotics in Japan from American Perspective", Autofact I, Meeting of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Detroit, Michigan, November 3, 1977 (co-author: S. Kurlat).
"Application of Phase Retrieval Techniques to Adaptive Imaging Systems, II", Optical Society of America Meeting, San Francisco CA 1978, Abstract in JOSA, October 1978 (co-authors: A. Devaney and R. Chidlaw).
"Phase Diversity in Adaptive Optics', OSA 2D Signal Processing Symposium, March 1981. "Phase Diversity Imaging", IOC Conference, Graz, Austria, September 1981.
"Compression of Digital Images", Southwest Connecticut Section of Optical Society of America, May 1983.
"Image Scanning and Recording", Optical Engineering, March/April 1984, (invited co-editor with Philip Considine).
"Wavefront Estimation Based on Differential Intensity Measurements", SPIE Annual Convention, August 21-22, 1984.
"Phase Diversity", Invited Paper, Optical Society of America, Topical Meeting on Signal Recovery and Synthesis II, Hawaii, April 1, 1986.
"Advanced PC-Based Image Processing", SPIE Half-day Tutorial, Fourth International Symposium on Optical and Optoelectronic Applied Science and Engineering, The Hague, The Netherlands, March 1987 (co-author: J. Kennealy)
"Education in Optics," invited talk, OSA Conversazione 1987, Framingham, MA, April 1987.
"Iterative implementation of maximum entropy restoration", SPSE Convention, Boston MA, May 1989.
"The Engineer as Entrepreneur," Council on International Educational Exchange, Tufts University, July 1989.
"FIER: A Filtered Entropy Approach to Maximum Entropy Restoration,: MAXENT 89, Dartmouth College, August 1989 (co-authors: J. Kennealy, S. Price, R. Korte).
"Face Recognition," SPSE Convention, Rochester NY, May 1990.
"Restoration of Hubble Imagery," invited presentation, Museum of our National Heritage, Lexington MA, September 1990 (co-presenter: P. Nisenson).
"Overview of phase retrieval techniques," Hubble Aberration Recovery Project (HARP), Image Inversion Workshop, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena CA, November 15, 1990.
"Processing of Hubble Images", Distinguished Speaker Series, Mitre Corp., Bedford MA, April, 1991.
"Enhancement of Hubble Space Telescope Images by Processing, Final Report of the HST Image Processing Working Group," NASA, April 1991 ( Contributing author, Editor: B. R. Hunt).
"Image Restoration Methods for Hubble Space Telescope Data", Raytheon Corp., Sudbury MA, May 24, 1991.
"Image Inversion Analysis of the Hubble Space Telescope Optical Telescope Assembly," Technical Report to Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Tufts University, May 1991 (co-author: S. Ebstein).
"Adaptive Optics," invited talk, University of Rome, Rome, Italy, October 16, 1992
"Adaptive Optics and Phase Diversity," invited talk, Astrophysical Observatory of Catania, Sicily, October 23, 1992
"Phase Diversity," invited talk, University of Florence, Florence, Italy October 23, 1992
"Processing the Hubble Images," invited talk, National Institute of Optics, Florence, Italy, October 30, 1992.
"Phase Diversity Imaging", invited talk, U. of Arizona, Tuscon AZ, January 24, 1992.
"Non-Isoplanatic imaging of solar data by phase diversity", Invited Paper, Sacramento Peak Observatory, Sunspot, NM, October, 1992.
"Phase retrieval, phase diversity, and image restoration", Keynote Speaker, Sacramento Peak Observatory, Sunspot, NM October, 1992.
"Non-isoplanatic Imaging through Ocean Waves," invited talk, Lockheed/Sanders, Nashua NH, February 19, 1993
"Medical Image Processing," invited paper, Biomedical Lasers and Optics: A View Toward the 21st Century, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge MA, June 19, 1993.
"History and Future of Imaging with Phase Diversity", Invited Paper, Annual meeting of Optical Society of America, Toronto, Canada, September, 1993.
"Cramer-Rao Bound - Accuracy of Hubble Space Telescope Image Restoration," Second Annual Convention on HST Imagery, Baltimore, MD, October 1993. (co-authors: S. Zaccheo, S. Ebstein, P. Nisenson).
"Iterative Object Estimation for Nonisoplanatic Imaging," 1994 annual meeting of the Optical Society of America, Dallas, TX, October 1994 (co-author: S. Ebstein) .
"Fast Gradient Calculation for Estimation from Nonisoplanatic Image Data," 1994 annual meeting of the Optical Society of America, Dallas, TX, October 1994 (co-author: S. Ebstein) .
"Imaging with Phase Diversity," invited talk, Boston Chapter of IEEE Group on Signal Processing, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, October 11, 1994.
"Phase Diversity Imaging: Report of Experiments and Simulations," Optical Society of America Topical Meeting on Adaptive Optics, July 1996. (co-authors: S. Ebstein, P. Nisenson, C. Shelton).
"Wavefront Estimation by Phase Diversity and Compensation with a Liquid Crystal Wavefront Corrector," Optical Society of America Topical Meeting on Adaptive Optics, July 1996. (co-authors G. D. Love, S. Ebstein, P. Nisenson, S. R. Restaino, R.C. Carre ras, W. Junor).
"Phase Diversity Imaging," Invited talk, SPIE New England Chapter, Lowell, MA, October 15, 1996.
"Combatting scintillation with phase diversity," Smart Sensors Workshop, Kirkland AFB, November 1996
TELEVISION APPEARANCES:
NBC Nightly News, Report on Industry Entrepreneurs Teaching at Universities, Summer, 1982
PBS, NOVA Production, "Who killed JFK," presented results of a NOVA - financed study of the Bronson and Hughes films, Fall, 1993
BOOK REVIEWS:
Review of The Hubble Wars, by Eric Chaisson (1994), review appears in Tuftonia, Fall, 1994.
Review of Computer Processing of Electron Microscope Images, edited by P. W. Hawkes, Springer Verlag, Berlin (1980), review appears in Optical Engineering, Vol. 21, No. 2, April 1982.
PATENTS:
Patent # 4,309,602, "Wavefront Sensing by Phase Retrieval", R. Gonsalves and A. Devaney, January 5, 1982.
Patent # 5,018,801, "Achromatic Holography Compensation," M. Cronin-Golomb and R. Gonsalves, 1990
Patent # 5,399,874, "Currency Paper Verification and Denomination Device Having a Clear and a Blurred Image," R. Gonsalves and R. Menelly, March 1, 1995.
Patent # 5,468,971, "Verification Device for Currency Containing an Embedded Security Thread," S. Ebstein, R. Gonsalves and R. Menelly, November 14, 1995.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
1970-1974 Chairman, Vice Chairman, Treas. of IEEE Education Group, Boston Section
1976-1978 Chairman, Vice Chairman, Treas. of IEEE Information Theory Group, Boston Section
1979-87 Session Chairman, "Applications of Digital Image Processing", SPIE, San Diego CA
1980-1981 Program Chairman, Optical Society of America, New England Section
1981 Converzatione on Digital Image Processing, Co-sponsored by Northeastern University and OSA
1984 Session Chairman, "Image Quality", SPIE, Los Angeles CA
1987 Session Chairman, "Industrial Applications of Image Processing", The Hague, The Netherlands
1992-1995 Chairman, V. Chairman, SPIE, New England Section
1994 Co-Chairman of SPIE image processing sessions at the annual meeting, July 1994
1994-1996 Initiated the New England Student Paper Competition on Optics, Sponsored by Tufts University, SPIE, OSA, and IEEE Group on Lasers and Electro-Optics, Awards totaling $1700 in prizes, donated by SPIE.
TECHNICAL REVIEW COMMITTEES:
1968-1975 IEEE Information Theory Group
1968-1975 IEEE Communications Systems Group
1974-present Journal Optical Society of America
1976-present Applied Optics
1976-present Optical Engineering
1976-present Optics Letters
SCIENTIFIC AND PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
1959-present Member of IEEE, Senior Member (1996)
1966-present Eta Kappa Nu, Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Phi
1966-present Registered Professional Engineer, Massachusetts
1970-1980 AAAS
1977-1981 Optical Society of America
1983-present Member of SPIE, Fellow in 1988
1990 Tau Beta Pi
RECENT PROJECT SUPERVISIONS:
Charles Dionne Imaging Through an Optical Fiber, Ph.D. Thesis, 1996
Margaret Kohin RF Scattering from Impedance Discontinuities, Ph.D. Thesis, 1996
Ken Goda Optimal Image Restoration of an Underwater Image Sequence, Masters Project, 1996
T. Scott Zaccheo Enhancement of Astronomical Images Bent by Gravitational Lensing, Ph.D. Thesis, 1995
Eric Sun Reconstruction of an Object From Its Projections, Masters Project, 1995
Ken Mandell Measurement of Prostate Volume with an Interactive MRI System. Senior Project, 1995
Ben Locke Electrostatic Imaging, Masters Project, 1994
Chia-Sheng Chou Fractal Image Compression, Masters Project, 1994
Peter Secakusuma Iterative Algorithm for Image Enhancement of Fluorescent Computed Tomography Reconstruction, Masters Project, 1994
Yan Yang Detection and Measurement of Biological Cells, Masters Project, 1994
CIVIC ACTIVITIES:
1968-present Democratic City Committee, Woburn, MA
1970, '74, '97 Delegate, Democratic State Convention
1970-1975 Member, Chairman, Woburn School Committee
1972 Delegate, Democratic National Convention, Miami, Florida
1996-present Member, Committee to Revitalize Downtown Woburn
1997-present Member, Space Needs Sub-Committee, Woburn School Committee
1997- present Governor's Appointee to the Woburn Redevelopment Authority
PERSONAL:
Married to Patricia (Liberge) Gonsalves, five children, three grandchildren. Designed and built two homes, including a contemporary solar home, the current residence in. Woburn, MA
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