Borko Furht


Borko Furht, Ph.D. is an American scientist, academician, author, consultant, and speaker in the field of computer science and engineering. He is a professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida. He is also Director of the NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Advanced Knowledge Enablement at FAU. In 2019 he was inducted in Academia Europaea, which is The Academy of Europe.

Career

Furht served as a senior researcher in the Institute Boris Kidric-Vinca, Yugoslavia, an associate professor at University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, he was a vice president of research and a senior director of development at MODCOMP. He was Senior Assistant Vice President for Engineering and Technology at FAU, Chair of Computer Science and Engineering Department at FAU and Chair of the Department of Computer & Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
In 2013 and 2019, Furht named Researcher of the Year at Florida Atlantic University.
He was founding Editor-in-Chief of Springer's journals: Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications, and Journal of Big Data. He has published over 40 books and 300 research papers in scientific journals and conferences.