Technical Group Supervisor 
Processing Algorithms and Calibration Engineering
Instrument Software and Science Data Systems
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California

Research Interests

The development of systems for automated digital mapping, image exploitation and analysis, and instrument geometric calibration

Projects

Multi-Angle Imaging Spectro-Radiometer (MISR)
The Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) instrument provides a unique opportunity for studying the ecology and climate of Earth through the acquisition of global multiangle imagery on the daylit side of Earth.

Planetary Robotics Vision Ground Processing ( PRoVisG)
Planetary Robotics Vision Ground Processing ( PRoVisG) will build a unified European framework for Robotic Vision Ground Processing.

PROBA-V
Proba-V is a miniaturized ESA satellite tasked with a full-scale mission: to map land cover and vegetation growth across the entire planet every two days.

• Psychiatry

Medical Education

• Medical Degree: School of Medicine University Of Belgrade, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1978
• Residency: Neuropsychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1984
• Ph.D.: School of Medicine University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1985
• Sub-specialty : Psychotherapy, Institute for Mental Health, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1986
• Residency: Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri , 1998

Ivan Aksentijevich earned his Medical Doctor Degree from the University of Belgrade, Serbia in 1986. He moved to the United States with his wife Ivona in 1989. Between 1989 and 1996, he completed two post-doctoral fellowships at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD. He went on and did a residency in Internal Medicine at St Agnes Hospital in Baltimore, MD, and followed this with fellowships in both Hematology and Medical Oncology at Johns Hopkins University Hospital, Baltimore, MD. He is a senior partner and member of the Executive Committee with the Virginia Cancer Specialists, in Alexandria, VA.  He holds the Chair of the Cancer Committee at Alexandria Hospital and is a primary investigator on several clinical trials. His main clinical interrests are in the field of hematologic malignancies.

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Open Letter in Support of Jasmina Vujic

Prof. Jasmina Vujić, an international member of AESS since 2012, is a Full Professor at the Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of California at Berkeley (USA). She served as the Chair of the NE Department from 2005 to 2009, and was the first female nuclear engineering department chair in the USA. She was the Vice-President and President of NEDHO (Nuclear Engineering Department Heads Organization) in the USA from 2010-2012. She established and directed two university-based research and educational centers: the Berkeley Nuclear Research Center in 2009 and the Nuclear Science and Security Consortium in 2011, with more than 150 collaborating researchers from several leading US universities.

Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine (Biostatistics)

Description of Interests

I am a consulting biostatistician, with focus on experimental design and analysis of data in clinical trials, basic science and in epidemiology. Some of my other interests included model selection, prediction models, gene arrays and history of mathematics.

Born and raised in Belgrade, Longinovic holds degrees in creative writing, psychology and has his Ph.D in comparative literature.

His books include Borderline Culture (1993), Vampires Like Us (2005), the co-edited and co-translated volume, with Daniel Weissbort: Red Knight: Serbian Women Songs (1992), and the edited volume: David Albahari, Words are Something Else (1996). He is also the author of several works of fiction, both in Serbian (Sama Amerika, 1995) and English (Moment of Silence, 1990).

His most recent book, Vampire Nation: Violence as Cultural Imaginary, was published by Duke University Press in 2011. His research interests include South Slavic literatures and cultures; the Serbian language; literary theory; Central and East European literary history; comparative Slavic studies, translation studies, and cultural studies.