{"id":9191,"date":"2016-03-01T07:52:51","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T12:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/?p=9191"},"modified":"2016-03-01T07:52:51","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T12:52:51","slug":"viktor-gruev-phd-04-profiled-in-natgeo-special","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/news\/viktor-gruev-phd-04-profiled-in-natgeo-special\/","title":{"rendered":"Viktor Gruev (PhD &#8217;04) Profiled in NatGeo Special"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/2015\/11\/24\/ece-alum-receives-2016-ieee-donald-g-fink-award\/\">Dr. Viktor Gruev<\/a> (MS &#8217;00; PhD &#8217;04), associate professor of computer science and engineering at the Washington University in St. Louis, was profiled in the <a href=\"https:\/\/source.wustl.edu\/2016\/02\/engineering-faculty-appear-national-geographic-special\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 14th episode of Explorer<\/a>, which airs on the National Geographic Channel. The special, titled &#8220;Explorer: Eyes Wide Open,&#8221; examined how the eye has inspired technology. Gruev&#8217;s research focuses on bio-inspired polarization for biomedical applications. As part of that effort, Gruev used the <a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/2014\/10\/01\/mantis-shrimp-camera\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mantis shrimp eye as inspiration for cancer detection technology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/T8cJBzlpVVM<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/channel.nationalgeographic.com\/explorer\/episodes\/explorer-eyes-wide-open\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">View the full episode here.<\/a> Sign in with your cable provider is required.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-9191","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Viktor Gruev (PhD &#039;04) Profiled in NatGeo Special - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/news\/viktor-gruev-phd-04-profiled-in-natgeo-special\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Viktor Gruev (PhD &#039;04) Profiled in NatGeo Special - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dr. Viktor Gruev (MS &#039;00; PhD &#039;04) and his research were profiled on an episode of Explorer, which airs on the National Geographic Channel. The special, titled &quot;Explorer: Eyes Wide Open,&quot; examined how the eye has inspired technology.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/news\/viktor-gruev-phd-04-profiled-in-natgeo-special\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Viktor Gruev (PhD '04) Profiled in NatGeo Special - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/news\/viktor-gruev-phd-04-profiled-in-natgeo-special\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Viktor Gruev (PhD '04) Profiled in NatGeo Special - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering","og_description":"Dr. Viktor Gruev (MS '00; PhD '04) and his research were profiled on an episode of Explorer, which airs on the National Geographic Channel. The special, titled \"Explorer: Eyes Wide Open,\" examined how the eye has inspired technology.","og_url":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/news\/viktor-gruev-phd-04-profiled-in-natgeo-special\/","og_site_name":"Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/news\/viktor-gruev-phd-04-profiled-in-natgeo-special\/","url":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/news\/viktor-gruev-phd-04-profiled-in-natgeo-special\/","name":"Viktor Gruev (PhD '04) Profiled in NatGeo Special - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/news\/viktor-gruev-phd-04-profiled-in-natgeo-special\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/news\/viktor-gruev-phd-04-profiled-in-natgeo-special\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"","datePublished":"2016-03-01T12:52:51+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/news\/viktor-gruev-phd-04-profiled-in-natgeo-special\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/news\/viktor-gruev-phd-04-profiled-in-natgeo-special\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/news\/viktor-gruev-phd-04-profiled-in-natgeo-special\/#primaryimage","url":"","contentUrl":""},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/news\/viktor-gruev-phd-04-profiled-in-natgeo-special\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"News","item":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Viktor Gruev (PhD &#8217;04) Profiled in NatGeo Special"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/#website","url":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/","name":"Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering","description":"Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"}]}},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/9191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}