JOSEPH W.
GOODMAN
Joseph W. Goodman received the A.B. Degree in
Engineering and Applied Physics from Harvard University in
1958, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford
University in 1960 and 1963, respectively.
From 1958 through 1962, he was a Research Assistant
in the Stanford Electronics Laboratories. During 1962 and 1963, he was a
post-doctoral Fellow at the Norwegian Defense Research Establishment, under the
auspices of the Royal Norwegian Society for Scientific and Industrial Research.
He returned to Stanford in 1963 as a Research Associate, a position he held
until 1967. In 1967 he was appointed Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
at Stanford. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1969 and to Professor in
1972. In 1988 he was appointed Chairman of the Department
of Electrical Engineering and named the William E. Ayer Professor
of Electrical Engineering. In 1996 he stepped down as Chairman and assumed the
position Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs in the School
of Engineering . For the duration of
the Summer of 1999, he was the Acting Dean of Engineering. Prof. Goodman assumed
Emeritus status on January 1, 2000.
During the academic year
1973-1974 he was a Visiting Professor at the Institut d'Optique,
Orsay, France. In the summer
of 1984 he was the William Girling Watson Traveling Scholar at Sydney
University, Sydney, Australia.
Dr.
Goodman has held a number of positions of responsibility in the optics
community. For the Optical Society of America , he has served as a Traveling Lecturer, as Vice
Chairman and Chairman of the Technical Group on Information Processing, as a
member of the Technical Council, as a member and Chairman of the Fellows
Committee, and as a member of the Ives Award Committee. He was elected a
Director-at-Large of the OSA for the years 1972-1974; he also served on the
Board of Directors ex-officio while he was Chairman of the Publications
Committee, and while he was Editor of the Journal of the Optical Society of
America (1978-1983). He was elected Vice President of the OSA for 1990, served
as President Elect in 1991, President in 1992, and Past President in 1993.
For the Society
of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers, he was elected to the Board of Governors for the years 1980-1982, and
has served as a member and Chairman of the Awards Committee, as a member of the
Nominating Committee, and as a member of the Technical Council. He also served
a second term as a Governor of the society for the years 1988-1990.
For the Institute
of Electrical and Electronics Engineers , he chaired an ad hoc Committee on Optical and Electro-Optical Systems
in 1969, has served on the Editorial Board of the Proceedings of the I.E.E.E.
for the years 1979 and 1980, has been a member of the Education Medal Committee
for 1987-1989, and a member of the Simon Ramo Medal Committee for the years
2003-2006.
His
international activities include membership on the program committees of a
number of international optics meetings. He was a member of the U.S.
delegations to the first and second U.S.-Japan Seminars on optical data
processing and holography, and a member of the U.S. delegation to the first
U.S.-U.S.S.R seminar on optical data processing. In 1979 he chaired the U.S
delegation to the first U.S.-Argentina seminar on Fourier Optics. In 1984 he
was elected to a three-year term as Vice President of the International
Commission for Optics (ICO), a Commission affiliated with the International
Union for Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP). He served as President of the ICO
for a term 1988-1990, and Past President for 1991-1993.
He has
served as a Director of several corporations, including Optivision,
Inc. (for which he was a co-founder), ONI
Systems (for which he was the founding Chairman of the Board), and E-TEK
Dynamics . He served on the Board of
Directors for Ondax, Inc.
from its founding until December 2004, and as the Chairman of the Board of
Nanoprecision Products, Inc., a company he co-founded, until September
2006.
Dr.
Goodman is a Fellow of the OSA, the IEEE, and the SPIE. In 1971, he was chosen
recipient of the F.E. Terman award of the American Society for Engineering
Education. He received the 1983 Max Born award of the Optical Society of
America, for his contributions to physical optics, and in particular to
holography, synthetic aperture optics, image processing, and speckle theory. He
received the 1987 IEEE Education medal for his contributions to Electrical
Engineering education, the 1987 Dennis Gabor Award of the International Optical
Engineering Society (SPIE) for his contributions to holography, optical
processing and optical computing, the 1995 Esther Hoffman Beller Education
medal of the OSA, and the 1990 Frederick Ives Medal, the highest award of the
Optical Society of America. In 2007 he received the SPIE Gold Medal, the
highest award of that society, and in 2009 he was named winner of the Emmett
Leith Medal of the OSA. He was elected a member of the National Academy of
Engineering in 1987, and a Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences in
1996. Also in 1996, he received an honorary D.Sc. degree from the University
of Alabama . He is the author of
approximately 220 technical publications, including the textbooks Introduction to Fourier Optics (1968,
Second Edition 1996. Third Edition 2005), Statistical
Optics (1985), Speckle Phenomena in
Optics (2006) and (with R.M. Gray) Fourier
Transforms: An Introduction for Engineers (1995). His first full-length publication (Proc. I.E.E.E., Vol. 53,
1688 (1965)) was named a "Citation Classic" by the Institute for
Scientific Information.