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Borko Furht

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Borko Furht
Furht in 2019
Alma materUniversity of Belgrade
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science and engineering
InstitutionsFlorida Atlantic University
Websitehttps://faculty.eng.fau.edu/bfurht/

Borivoje "Borko" Furht is a Serbian American scientist and author in the field of computer science and engineering. He is a professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering and computer science (CEECS) at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida. He is also director of the National Science Foundation's Industry and University Cooperative Research Center for Advanced Knowledge Enablement at FAU. In 2019, he was inducted into Academia Europaea, which is The Academy of Europe.

Career

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Furht served as a senior researcher in the Institute Boris Kidric-Vinca in Yugoslavia (1970–82), an associate professor at University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida (1982–87), and was vice president of research and a senior director of development at MODCOMP (1987–92). He was senior assistant vice president for engineering and technology at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) (2006–08), chair of FAU's the computer science and engineering department (2002–09) and chair of the department of computer and electrical engineering and computer science (2009–13).[1]

In 2013 and 2019, Furht was named Researcher of the Year at Florida Atlantic University.[2]

He was founding editor-in-chief of Springer's journals: Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications,[3] and Journal of Big Data.[4] He has published over 40 books[5] and 300 research papers in scientific journals and conferences. He holds more than 50 patents in video coding including 10 essential patents for the VVC video coding standard.

References

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  1. ^ "Borko Furht, Ph.D." Florida Atlantic University.
  2. ^ "2013 FAU Researcher of the Year at the Professor Level". Florida Atlantic University. Retrieved 27 April 2018.
  3. ^ Multimedia Tools and Applications. Springer.com.
  4. ^ "Journal of Big Data". Springer Open.
  5. ^ "BOOKSHELF The Encyclopedia of Multimedia, Borko Furht" (PDF). IEEE Computer Society.
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