Rate My Professor Dragutin Petkovic

Petkovic founded and directed the SFSU Center for Computing for Life Sciences from 2005 to 2018, collaborating on multiple NIH grants with Stanford University in AI for bioinformatics, and co-founded the multidisciplinary Graduate Certificate in Ethical Artificial Intelligence in 2019. An IEEE Life Fellow since 2018 and IEEE Fellow since 1998 for leadership in content-based retrieval and the QBIC project, he received IBM Research Awards and the Blue Chip Award from IBM CEO Lou Gerstner, holds 14 U.S. patents, and has over 70 peer-reviewed publications. Key works include 'It is Not "Accuracy vs. Explainability"—We Need Both for Trustworthy AI Systems' (IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society, 2023), editorship of Explainable Deep Learning AI: Methods and Challenges (Elsevier, 2023), 'Query by Image and Video Content: The QBIC System' (IEEE Computer, 1995), and 'QBIC project: querying images by content, using color, texture, and shape' (SPIE, 1993). His research focuses on AI ethics, trustworthiness and explainability, machine learning, software engineering, usability, and computing for life sciences. He delivered a keynote at IEEE CCWC 2025 on 'GenAI and Education'.