Professor
Office: 116-215
Biography
John Saghri is currently a Professor Emeritus in the electrical engineering department. He joined Cal Poly’s Computer Engineering Department after spending twenty years in the aerospace industry. In 2005, he moved to the Electrical Engineering Department and was promoted to full professor in 2015.
John earned his BS in Electronic Engineering from Cal Poly in 1973, followed by an MS in Computer Engineering from Oregon State University in 1975 and a PhD in Computer and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1979.
His sponsored research work has been primarily in satellite remote sensing, radar signal processing, computer vision, and early wildfire detection. His publication record includes over sixty papers and several textbook chapter contributions. Dr. Saghri is a fellow of the SPIE and a life senior member of the IEEE.
Teaching and Research Interests
- Remote sensing
- Radar
- Computer vision
- Automatic target recognition & tracking
- Early wildfire detection
- Signal processing
