Joseph A. Sgro | |
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 Sgro in 2013 | |
| Born | San Diego, California, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of California, Los Angeles University of Wisconsin Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics Mathematical logic Neurology Neurophysiology Machine vision Machine learning |
| Institutions | Yale University Institute for Advanced Study Columbia University VCU Medical Center Alacron, Inc. FastVision, LLC |
| Doctoral advisor | H. J. Keisler |
Joseph A. Sgro (born in San Diego, California) is an American mathematician, neurologist / neurophysiologist, and an engineering technologist / entrepreneur in the field of frame grabbers, high-speed cameras, smart cameras, image processors, computer vision, and machine vision and learning technologies.
Sgro began his career as an academic researcher in advanced mathematics and logic. He received an AB in Mathematics in 1970 from UCLA followed by an MA in mathematics in 1973 and a PhD in mathematics in 1975 from the University of Wisconsin, where he studied mathematical logic under H. Jerome Keisler[1] who along with Jon Barwise and Kenneth Kunen formed his doctoral committee.
After serving as an instructor and post doctoral fellow at Yale University and also was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, Sgro returned to school to study neurology, and received his M.D. in 1980 from the Ph.D to M.D. Program[2] of the Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami, followed by an internal medicine internship at UNC Memorial Hospital, residency in neurology, a fellowship, and faculty position in clinical neurophysiology at the Neurological Institute of New York.
As an outgrowth of his work in neurophysiology, while still working as a post-doctoral fellow and an assistant professor of neurology, Sgro founded Alacron, Inc., formerly Corteks, Inc. until 1990, in 1985 to manufacture technologies relevant to his neurological research. In 1989, he commercialized this technology and began developing array processors, frame grabbers, vision processors, and most recently supported advances in BSI and superlattice (delta) sensor doping[3] technology. Extending his work in machine vision technology, in 2002, Sgro founded FastVision, LLC, a maker of smart cameras, as a subsidiary of Alacron, Inc . In 2016, FastVision, LLC. was incorporated into Alacron, Inc.
- ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project entry for Joseph A. Sgro.
- ^ Koniaris, Leonidas G.; Cheung, Michael C.; Garrison, Gwen; Awad Jr, William M.; Zimmers, Teresa A. (2010). "Perspective: PhD Scientists Completing Medical School in Two Years: Looking at the Miami PhD-to-MD Program Alumni Twenty Years Later". Academic Medicine. 85 (4): 687–91. doi:10.1097/ACM.0b013e3181d296da. PMID 20354390.
- ^ Hoenk, Michael. "Surface passivation by quantum exclusion using multiple layers". USPTO. Retrieved 7 September 2020.