Joseph Sgro
Joseph A. Sgro (born in San Diego, California) is an American mathematician, neurologist / neurophysiologist, and an engineering technologist / entrepreneur in the field of frame grabbers, high-speed cameras, smart cameras, image processors, computer vision, and machine vision and learning technologies.
Joseph A. Sgro | |
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Sgro at Alacron, Inc. | |
| Born | San Diego, California, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of California, Los Angeles University of Wisconsin Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics Mathematical logic Neurology Neurophysiology Machine vision Machine learning |
| Institutions | Yale University Institute for Advanced Study Columbia University VCU Medical Center Alacron, Inc. FastVision, LLC |
| Doctoral advisor | H. J. Keisler |
Sgro began his career as an academic researcher in advanced mathematics and logic. He received an AB in Mathematics in 1970 from UCLA followed by an MA in mathematics in 1973 and a PhD in mathematics in 1975 from the University of Wisconsin, where he studied mathematical logic under H. Jerome Keisler who along with Jon Barwise and Kenneth Kunen formed his doctoral committee.
After serving as an instructor and post doctoral fellow at Yale and also holding a membership at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, Sgro returned to school to study neurology, and received his M.D. in 1980 from the Ph.D to M.D. Program of the Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami, followed by an internal medicine internship at UNC Memorial Hospital, residency in neurology, a fellowship, and faculty position in clinical neurophysiology at the Neurological Institute of New York.
As an outgrowth of his work in neurophysiology, while still working as a post-doctoral fellow and an assistant professor of neurology, Sgro founded Alacron, Inc. (formerly Corteks, Inc.until 1990) in 1985 to manufacture technologies relevant to his neurological research. In 1989 he commercialized this technology and began developing array processors, frame grabbers, vision processors, and most recently supported advances in BSI and superlattice (delta) sensor doping technology. Extending his work in machine vision technology, in 2002, Sgro founded FastVision, LLC, a maker of smart cameras, as a subsidiary of Alacron, Inc . In 2016, FastVision, LLC. was incorporated into Alacron, Inc.