Professor Havlicek is a faculty member of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Oklahoma(OU).

Better known as Joebob, Professor Havlicek received his B.S. degree in 1986 and M.S. degree in 1988 from Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Blacksburg, VA, and his Ph.D. in 1996 from the University of Texas at Austin, all in electrical engineering.

Joebob has previously worked with teams at the Naval Research Laboratory (Washington, DC), Management Systems Laboratories ( Blacksburg, VA), and SFA, Inc. (Landover, MD). In 1993 he was a programmer-analyst with Ralph Kirkley Associates, Austin, TX, working on-site in the multimedia division of IBM, Austin.

Professor Havlicek's research interests include signal, image, and video processing, statistical signal processing, machine vision, and intelligent transportation systems. His recent projects have included development of AM-FM signal and image models, perfect reconstruction filterbanks, novel discrete uncertainty measures, and hardware and software systems for intelligent transportation systems.

Recently, Dr. Havlicek was a recipient of the University of Oklahoma's Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award for 2006, the University of Oklahoma College of Engineering Brandon H. Griffith Faculty Award in 2003, the University of Oklahoma IEEE Favorite Instructor Award in 1998 and 2000, the Department of the Navy Award of Merit for Group Achievement in 1990, and the 1992 University of Texas Engineering Foundation Award for Exemplary Engineering Teaching while Pursuing a Graduate Degree.

Joebob is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Phi Kappa Phi, and Eta Kappa Nu, IEEE senior member. He is also serving on the organizing committee of the IEEE 2007 International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP-07).