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Rafael C. Gonzalez. R.C. Gonzalez received the B.S.E.E. degree from the University of Miami in and the M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Florida, Gainesville, in and , respectively. He joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK) in , where he became Associate Professor in , Professor in , and Distinguished Service Professor in He served as Chairman of the department from through He is currently a Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UTK.

He is the founder of the Image & Pattern Analysis Laboratory and the Robotics & Computer Vision Laboratory at the University of Tennessee. He also founded Perceptics Corporation in and was its president until The last three years of this period were spent under a full-time employment contract with Westinghouse Corporation, who acquired the company in Under his direction, Perceptics became highly successful in image processing, computer vision, and laser disk storage technologies. In its initial ten years, Perceptics introduced a series of innovative products, including: The world's first commercially-available computer vision system for automatically reading the license plate on moving vehicles; a series of large-scale image processing and archiving systems used by the U.S. Navy at six different manufacturing sites throughout the country to inspect the rocket motors of missiles in the Trident II Submarine Program; the market leading family of imaging boards for advanced Macintosh computers; and a line of :trillion-byte laser disk products.

He is a frequent consultant to industry and government in the areas of pattern recognition, image processing, and machine learning. His academic honors for work in these fields include the UTK College of Engineering Faculty Achievement Award; the UTK Chancellor's Research Scholar Award; the Magnavox Engineering Professor Award; and the M. E. Brooks Distinguished Professor Award. In he became an IBM Professor at the University of Tennessee and in he was named a Distinguished Service Professor there. He was awarded a Distinguished Alumnus Award by the University of Miami in , the Phi Kappa Phi Scholar Award in , and the University of Tennessee's Nathan W Dougherty Award for Excellence in Engineering in Honors for industrial accomplishment include the IEEE Outstanding Engineer Award for Commercial Development in Tennessee; the Albert Rose National Award for Excellence in Commercial Image Processing; the B. Otto Wheeley Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer; the Coopers and Lybrand Entrepreneur of the Year Award; the IEEE Region 3 Outstanding Engineer Award; and the Automated Imaging Association National Award for Technology Development.

Dr. Gonzalez is author or co-author of over technical articles, two edited books, and five textbooks in the fields of pattern recognition, image processing, and robotics. His books are used in over universities and research institutions throughout the world. He is listed in the prestigious Marquis Who's Who in America, Marquis Who's Who in Engineering, Marquis Who's Who in the World, and in 10 other national and international biographical citations. He is the co-holder of two U.S. Patents, and has been an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, and the International Journal of Computer and Information Sciences. He is a member of numerous professional and honorary societies, including Tau Beta Pi, Phi Kappa Phi, Eta Kappa Nu, and Sigma Xi. He is also a Fellow of the IEEE.

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