Dragoljub PokrajacDragoljub Pokrajac (born 1970 in Šibenik

Šibenik

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, Croatia

Croatia

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 (then Yugoslavia) is a Serbian

Serbs

The Serbs are a South Slavic ethnic group of the Balkans and southern Central Europe. Serbs are located mainly in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and form a sizable minority in Croatia, the Republic of Macedonia and Slovenia. Likewise, Serbs are an officially recognized minority in...

-American

United States

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 scientist. His fields of interest include data mining

Data mining

Data mining , a relatively young and interdisciplinary field of computer science is the process of discovering new patterns from large data sets involving methods at the intersection of artificial intelligence, machine learning, statistics and database systems...

, video analysis, image processing

Image processing

In electrical engineering and computer science, image processing is any form of signal processing for which the input is an image, such as a photograph or video frame; the output of image processing may be either an image or, a set of characteristics or parameters related to the image...

, applied mathematics

Applied mathematics

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 and others. He is currently working as an associate professor at Delaware State University

Delaware State University

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, Dover

Dover, Delaware

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, Delaware

Delaware

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After his secondary education, he enrolled with the University of Niš

University of Niš

The University of Niš is a university located in Niš, Serbia. It was founded in 1965 and it consists of 13 faculties with 1500 teachers, 630 staff and extracurricular staff, and around 30,000 students...

 Faculty of Electronics, Serbia

Serbia

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 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

Washington State University

Washington State University is a public research university based in Pullman, Washington, in the Palouse region of the Pacific Northwest. Founded in 1890, WSU is the state's original and largest land-grant university...

 under the supervision of his advisor Dr. Zoran Obradović. His colleagues included Aleksandar Lazarevic

Aleksandar Lazarevic

Aleksandar Lazarevic is a renowned computer scientist who specializes in research on Data Mining. In addition, his research interests include security applications, video surveillance, parallel and distributed computing....

 and Slobodan Vucetic. He moved to Philadelphia in 2000 where he obtained his Ph.D. degree from Temple University

Temple University

Temple University is a comprehensive public research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Originally founded in 1884 by Dr. Russell Conwell, Temple University is among the nation's largest providers of professional education and prepares the largest body of professional...

 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

Association for Computing Machinery

The Association for Computing Machinery is a learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 as the world's first scientific and educational computing society. Its membership is more than 92,000 as of 2009...

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