Sam Kozaitis

Professor and Department Head of Electrical and Computer Engineering

kozaitis@fit.edu

Professional Experience

Dr. Kozaitis is currently a professor and Department Head in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He worked for General Motors Research Laboratory, Wayne State University, and Digital Optics Inc. before coming to Florida Tech. From 1988 - 1997, he spent summers at the U.S. Air Force Photonics Center at Rome Laboratory performing research on optical processing. He also spent the summers of 2000 and 2001 at NASA, Kennedy Space Center, FL developing the groundwork for tracking launch vehicles with satellites. He is on the program committee of the Technical Committee on Pattern Recognition of IASTED, the advisory board of Journal of Engineering Research, the editorial board of Journal of Signal and Image Processing, and the board of trustees of the Kurdistan University of Science and Technology. He served as chairman of SPIE and IASTED conferences and as a reviewer for a wide variety of journals, books, conferences, and research programs. He is a member of IEEE, Sigma Xi, SPIE, and Tau Beta Pi and received the outstanding faculty service award at Wayne State University.

Research Interests

Dr. Kozaitis’s research emphasis is on the development of algorithms to reduce noise in signals and images and to automatically detect important features. His earlier research focused on optical signal processing, which involved working with magnetooptic and ferroelectric materials to spatially modulate light. He developed system architectures using spatial light modulators and coherent imaging to automatically identify objects. Much of this work led to the development of advanced signal processing algorithms and, more recently, wavelet-based processing and higher-order correlations to recover features from heavily degraded signals corrupted by noise.

Primary courses taught

ECE 2551 Software/hardware design

ECE 3240 Junior Design

ECE 4112 Digital Electronics

ECE 5245 Digital Signal Processing 1

ECE 5259 Medical Imaging

ECE 5555 Wavelet transforms for signal and image processing

Research and other topics

Removing image-dependent noise from medical imagery

Loudspeaker design

WSEAS (World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society)