Joseph Katz

MERL Headquarters
Vice President & Director
Ph.D., Caltech, 1981

Phone: 617 621 7515
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In addition to his general role as a member of MERL's senior management team, Joseph Katz is responsible for managing the Imaging, Mechatronics, and Algorithms groups. Until 2004 he was with Symbol Technologies (currently a division of Motorola), where as Senior VP of R&D he participated, initiated, and led projects in a wide range of technologies, including barcode/RFID data capture, optics, imaging, signal processing, computing, networking, security, biometrics, and communications. Prior to joining Symbol, Joseph worked at JPL/Caltech, where he conducted and led R&D efforts in optical communications and advanced optoelectronic materials and devices, and was a recipient of the JPL Director's Research Achievement Award and of 25 NASA awards for technical innovations. Joseph Katz authored/co-authored over 150 technical publications and holds over 130 U.S. patents. He was elected as a Fellow of both the IEEE and the Optical Society of America.

Publications:

Goubet, E.; Katz, J.; Porikli, F., "Pedestrian Tracking Using Thermal Infrared Imaging", SPIE Conference Infrared Technology and Applications XXXII, Vol. 6206, pp. 797-808, June 2006 (SPIE Proceedings, TR2005-126)

Vannucci, G.; Leigh, D.; Katz, J., "Wide-Area Long-Range Unidirectional Sensor (WALRUS) Network", IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems, pp. 396-404, November 2005 (IEEE Xplore, TR2005-133)