Alexander A. Sawchuk

Professor

Alexander A. Sawchuk was born in Washington, D.C. He received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. He has been employed by the National Bureau of Standards, the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and the Communications Satellite Corporation. In 1971 he joined the University of Southern California, and is now a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering. From 1978 to 1988 and 1990 to 1991 he was the Director of the Signal and Image Processing Institute.

Research Interests

• Optical Computing
• Optical Interconnections
• Optical Networks
• Digital Image Processing

Awards

• 1980 Halliburton Award for Exceptional Service from USC
• 1993 Lockheed Senior Research Award from USC
• 1995 Outstanding Teaching Award from the USC School of Engineering
• 1981 Fellow, Optical Society of America (OSA)
• 1982 Fellow, International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE)
• 1994 Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Books

• Digital Image Processing and Analysis, Vol. 1: Digital Image Processing, IEEE Computer Society Press, June 1985, with R. Chellappa.
• Digital Image Processing and Analysis, Vol 2: Digital Image Analysis, IEEE Computer Society Press, December 1985, with R. Chellappa.

Technical Activities

• Member, Optical Society of Southern California
• Member, The Society for Information Display
• Editor, Information Processing Division of Applied Optics, published by the Optical Society of America (1989-1996)
• Chair, OSA Technical Council (1986-1987)
• Member, OSA Board of Directors (1986-1988)
• General Chair, OSA Topical Meeting on Optical Computing (1989)
• Chair and Member, OSA Society Objectives and Policy Committee (1988-1990).

Recent Ph.D.s

• Wei-Feng Hsu, May 1996, "Design of Smart Pixel Interfaces for Optical Page-Oriented Memories."
• Jeng-Feng Lin, May 1996, "Optoelectronic Cellular Array Processor with Reduced Cellular Hypercube Interconnections."
• Lev Sadovnik, December 1995, "Nonlinear Optical Processing and Its Application to Invariant Pattern Recognition."
• Yibin Lu, May 1994, "Optoelectronic Sorting Networks."
• Charles B. Kuznia, May 1994, "Cellular Hypercube Optical Interconnections for Optoelectronic Smart Pixel Cellular Arrays."
• Andrew Miller, February 1993, "Analysis and Optimization of Lens-Based Optoelectronic Shuffle Networks."

Selected Publications

• "Binary Image Algebra and Optical Cellular Logic Design, "Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing, vol. 45, pp. 295-345, 1989, with K.-S. Huang and B.K. Jenkins.
• "Design of Space-Multiplexed Three-Dimensional Omega Networks and Their Optical Implementation," Applied Optics, vol. 32, pp. 6482-6492, 1993, with L. Cheng and J.-M. Wang.
• "Parallel Architectures for Digital Optical Cellular Image Processing," Proceedings IEEE, vol. 82, pp. 1711-1723, 1994, (invited paper), with K.-S. Huang, C.B. Kuznia, and B.K. Jenkins.
• "Time Multiplexing and Control for Optical Cellular Hypercube Arrays," Applied Optics, vol. 35, pp. 1836-1847, 1996, with C.B. Kuznia.