Dragoljub Pokrajac

Dragoljub Pokrajac (born 1970 in Šibenik, Croatia (then Yugoslavia) is a Serbian-American scientist. His fields of interest include data mining, video analysis, image processing, applied mathematics and others. He is currently working as an associate professor at Delaware State University, Dover, Delaware.^[1]

After his secondary education, he enrolled with the University of Niš Faculty of Electronics, Serbia where he earned BS and MS degrees in 1993 and 1997, respectively. He moved to the USA in 1997 where he began Ph.D. studies at Washington State University under the supervision of his advisor Dr. Zoran Obradović. His colleagues included Aleksandar Lazarevic and Slobodan Vucetic. He moved to Philadelphia in 2000 where he obtained his Ph.D. degree from Temple University in June 2002.

Since August 2002, Pokrajac has been an assistant professor at Delaware State University (DSU). In 2007 he became an associate professor, and in 2008 he got tenure. He is a co-author of about 100 conference and journal papers, one patent, and a principal investor or co-PI on several grants totalling more than $10,000,000 in funding money. He is one of founders of Applied Mathematics Research Center, the first DSU PhD program and initiator of collaboration between DSU and Serbian Universities. He is member of IEEE and ACM.

References

1. ^ ""Mijatovke" iz Amerike" (in Serbian). Politika. http://www.politika.rs/rubrike/ostali-komentari/t19294.lt.html. Retrieved 17 October 2010. 

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Name	Pokrajac, Dragoljub
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