IST Advisory Board Member
Joseph 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. He is the William E. Ayer Professor of Electrical Engineering, Emeritus, at Stanford University

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 Travelling 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, and has been a member of the Education Medal Committee for 1987-1989. 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 currently serves as Chairman of the Board of NanoPrecision products Inc. He also serves on Technical Advisory Committees for several small private photonics companies.

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.

He became a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1987, and a Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996.

He is the author of approximately 220 technical publications, including the textbooks Introduction to Fourier Optics (1968, Second Edition, 1996, Third Edition, 2004), Statistical Optics (1985), and (with R.M. Gray) Fourier Transforms: An Introduction for Engineers (1995).