Williams Presidential Professor
Office: DEH 333
Fax: (405) 325-7066
Email: Dr. Havlicek
Website: Personal Website
Joseph Havlicek's research is mainly in signal, image, and video processing with particular focus on applications in medical imaging, video object tracking, and intelligent transportation systems.
Dr. Havlicek is Gerald Tuma Presidential Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Williams Companies Foundation Presidential Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering. He is director and co-founder of the OU Center for Intelligent Transportation Systems. He is also a full member of the OU Institute for Biomedical Engineering, Science, and Technology.
He received the B.S. degree in 1986 and the M.S. degree in 1988 in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1996 from the University of Texas at Austin.
From 1984 to 1987, he was with Management Systems Laboratories, Blacksburg, VA, as a software engineer developing decision support software for US DoE nuclear materials management. From 1987 to 1997 he was with the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, where he worked on infrared missile warning receivers for Navy aircraft, including the Navy's first two-color infrared system. In 1990 he was a recipient of the Department of the Navy Award of Merit for Group Achievement for this work which led to production combat systems deployed in both Afghanistan and Iraq. Throughout 1993 he was a programmer--analyst developing image CODECS in the multimedia division of IBM, Austin.
He joined the University of Oklahoma as an assistant professor in January, 1997, where he currently holds the rank of Professor and the Gerald Tuma and Williams Companies Foundation Presidential Professorships. His research interests include signal, image, and video processing, modulation domain signal processing, target tracking, medical imaging, and intelligent transportation systems. He is author or co-author of over 130 scholarly publications in these areas. Since joining the University of Oklahoma in 1997, he has been PI or co-PI on more than 110 externally funded grants and contracts totaling over $27M.
Dr. Havlicek is a senior member of the IEEE. He served as a Senior Area Editor of IEEE Transactions on Image Processing from Nov. 2015 through Feb. 2018. Prior to that, he served as an Associate Editor for five years. He is also a past Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. He served as Publications Chair on the Organizing Committee of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), as a Technical Area Chair for ICIP 2012 and ICIP 2013, and as a Technical Area Chair for the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) in 2012 and 2013. He has been a member of the Technical Program Committee and Organizing Committee of the IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation since 1998, serving as General Co-Chair (2010), Technical Program Co-Chair (2004, 2006, 2008), and Publicity Chair (2000, 2002). He was chairman of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Graduate Studies Committee at the University of Oklahoma from 2008 to 2013 and chairman of the Undergraduate Studies Committee from 2021 to 2023. He was recipient of the University of Oklahoma College of Engineering Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award in 2006, the University of Oklahoma College of Engineering Brandon H. Griffith Faculty Award in 2003, the University of Oklahoma IEEE Favorite Instructor Award in 1998 and 2000, and the 1992 University of Texas Engineering Foundation Award for Exemplary Engineering Teaching while Pursuing a Graduate Degree. Dr. Havlicek is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Phi Kappa Phi, and Eta Kappa Nu.
