Jovan G. Brankov  Ph. D.

Assistant Professor of 
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Illinois Institute of Technology

Address: Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Illinois Institute of Technology
3301 S Dearborn St.
Chicago, IL 60616-3793
 
Phone: (312)-567-8819
 
E-mail:  jovan [at] brankov [dot] com     or    brankov [at] iit [dot] edu
Web Sites: www.brankov.com ; www.mirc.iit.edu
 
Professional activities and achievements: Over 65 publication.
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Associate Editor:
Medical Physics (AAPM)

Technical reviewer for:

Medical Imaging, Trans. on (IEEE)
Image Processing, Trans. on (IEEE)
Physics in Medicine and Biology, Jour. of (IOP)
Signal Processing Letters (IEEE)
Physiological Measurement (IOP)
Inverse Problems (IOP)

Technical comity:
Medical Imaging Conference (IEEE MIC’05)
International Conference on Technology and Automation (IEEE ICTA’05)

IE
EE Senior Member (S'99, M'02, SM'05)

Supervised students:

Alejandro Saiz, MS Thesis,
Noise analysis of diffraction enhanced imaging, Illinois Institute of Technology, graduated 2003 (co-advised with Miles N. Wernick).

Bruno Marquet, Diploma of Electrical Engineering project (US equivalent of MS Thesis),
Noise Analysis and Sampling Strategies for Multiple-Image Radiography, ENSEA, Cergy-Pontoise, FRANCE, 2005, (co-advised with Miles N. Wernick).
Sylvain Richard, Internship project,
MIR image segmentation, ENSEA, Cergy-Pontoise, FRANCE, 2005, (co-advised with Miles N. Wernick).

Education: Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, 2000 - 2002
Illinois Institute of Technology
Major: Communications and Signal Processing; GPA: 4.0/4.0
PhD. Thesis: Mesh Modeling, Reconstruction and Spatio-Temporal Processing of Medical Images - Presentation (7.7Mb)
M.S. Electrical Engineering, 1998 -1999 
Illinois Institute of Technology
Major: Communications and Signal Processing; GPA: 4.0/4.0
M.S.E.E. Thesis: Tomographic Image Reconstruction for Partially-Known systems and Image Sequences - Presentation (870kb)
Diploma of Electrical Engineering, 1989 -1996 
University of Belgrade
Major: Communications; Total   GPA: 8.22/10.00; Major GPA: 9.12/10.00
Diploma Thesis: Potiskivanje širokopojasnog 2-fasno i frekventno modulisanonog signala primenon dvostranog transverzalnog filtra u sistemu sa proširenim spektrom metodom direktne sekvence - Abstract (English) 

Working History:  



Assistant Research Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 
Illinois Institute of Technology, Sep. '04-present
Conduct and lead several NIH-sponsored research projects in the area of medical image processing.
     http://www.mirc.iit.edu/grants.html

Consultant for a leading company in field of nuclear medicine '04 - present
Developing numerical models for image quality assessment based on a human-observer model.


Senior Research Associate 

Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA, Sep.'02 - Avg.'04
Conduct research projects in the area of medical image processing, including four-dimensional image reconstruction for gated SPECT, deconvolution methods for synchrotron-based x-ray imaging, and content-based image retrieval for mammography. Supervising research assistants. Responsible for overseeing management of Linux-based computer cluster, and participating in decision-making about equipment and computer needs.
Teaching/Research assistant 
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA, Sep. '98 - Sep. '02

Working in Medical imaging group on PET, SPET and Image reconstruction/restoration.

Technical support
DS inzenjering, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Nov '97- May '98
Maintenance and troubleshooting for LIEBHERR mobile cranes.
Electronic scale system Research & Design
Tuf Co. Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Sep. '96 - May '98
R&D for electronic scales and automatic control units. Developing methods for low-level signal measurement under wide temperature range; System design and development for i8051 and i8085 based control unit including both hardware (electronic and PCB) and software (assembler and C); Developing interface between PC and electric scale. Job included equipment installation and troubleshooting.
Assembling PC & Technical support
Sova Racunari, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Feb. '96 - Aug. '96
Assembling PC configurations, installing local area networks, technical support. 
System designer
ZIS 2 Company, Krusevac, Yugoslavia, Feb. '94 - Aug. '95
System designer, developing automatic control units, hardware installation and troubleshooting.

Computer Proficiency: Operating systems:
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Applications:
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Other:
Window XP/2k/ NT/95/98, Linux Fedora, UNIX Solaris, MS DOS
C++, Java, C, Pascal, Fortran, HTML
MS Word, Excel, Access, Corel, FPage
MATLAB, IDL, MathCAD, Derive
Pspice, Palasm, Pcad, Tango
Assembler and C for i8051 and i8085  

Language: English
Serbian(Native speaker)
Hungarian (Native speaker)
limited German