Geoff Dougherty has interacted with several Indonesian universities over the past few years. He was a Fulbright Specialist at Institut Teknologi Bandung in 2015, Universitas Diponegoro (UNDIP), and Universitas Airlangga (UNAIR) in 2018. He assessed and developed the academic curricula and educational materials for image processing at these universities. He also delivered seminars and workshops on image processing, pattern recognition, and writing for international journals, books and other kinds of publications.
Most recently (2022), he has been a senior scholar teaching at UNDIP, with visits to UNAIR and Institut Teknologi Sepuluh November in Surabaya. He conducted workshops on image processing and scientific writing and taught several ongoing courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels at UNDIP. He evaluated the physics program and assisted with editorial and managerial developments at the Journal of Physics and its Applications (JPA). He gave workshops on medical imaging and academic writing in Surabaya.
He joined California State University (CSU) Channel Islands as a physics and medical imaging professor in 2002. He has been a tireless advocate for applied science and technology. He actively pursues research in medical imaging and image analysis, including the assessment of texture in clinical images of trabecular bone, the quantitation of tortuosity in blood vessels, and the optimization of dose and image quality in computed tomography (CT). He developed a new major in applied physics and a program in medical imaging. The hallmark of these is an applied, interdisciplinary approach that incorporates the latest advances in science, technology, and the medical sciences and addresses local employment needs. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the founding chair of the engineering in medicine and biology chapter of the Ventura County section of the IEEE. He has published numerous articles in international journals, books, and book chapters and has won various competitive research grants.
