Golshah Naghdy was born in Tehran, Iran. She
received her BSc in Electrical Engineering and Electronic Engineering
from Aryamehr University, Tehran in 1977. She did her Post-graduate
studies in England where she received an MPhil in Control Engineering
and PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering in 1982 and 1986
respectively. The application of her PhD work in the automation of a
wastewater treatment process was subsequently patented in England.
Golshah's research interest during her time in England was
centered around mathematical modeling and real-time control of
biological and chemical processes. Her close collaboration with a
number of major industries in England during her time at Portsmouth
University from 1982 to 1989 was instrumental in attracting a number
of industry grants and her major work with Southern Water Authority
attracted the 1986 Industry Year Award. She was a Senior Lecturer at
Portsmouth University in England before joining Wollongong University
in 1989.
Since 1989 Golshah has been researching in the area
of biological and machine vision in particular a generic vision
system for natural texture classification based on "wavelet
neurons". This project was partially supported by an Australian
Research Council (ARC) grant. One of the major applications of such
system would be in the development of artificial retina. Another
major area of her research has been medical image processing. In this
context, she has worked on three areas of medical image processing;
loss-less coding of medical images for tele-medicine or archiving,
medical image enhancement, and mammogram image analysis for clinical
decision support systems. The latter has also attracted an ARC grant.
Golshah is currently, working on the application of
"wavelet neurons" in the development of artificial retina.
She is also continuing her research on loss-less coding and
content-based retrieval for medical images.
