Dr. Belongie is currently an assistant professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at U.C. San Diego. He received a B.S. degree (with honor) in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1995 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) from U.C. Berkeley in 1997 and 2000. While at Berkeley, his research was supported by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and the Chancellor's Opportunity Predoctoral Fellowship. He is also a co-founder of DigitalPersona, Inc., and the principal architect of the DigitalPersona fingerprint recognition algorithm. His research interests include computer vision, pattern recognition and digital signal processing. |