Borko Furht

Borivoje "Borko" Furht is a Serbian American scientist and author in the field of computer science and engineering. He is a professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering and computer science (CEECS) at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida. He is also director of the National Science Foundation's Industry and University Cooperative Research Center for Advanced Knowledge Enablement at FAU. In 2019, he was inducted into Academia Europaea, which is The Academy of Europe.

Career Furht served as a senior researcher in the Institute Boris Kidric-Vinca in Yugoslavia (1970–82), an associate professor at University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida (1982–87), and was vice president of research and a senior director of development at MODCOMP (1987–92). He was senior assistant vice president for engineering and technology at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) (2006–08), chair of FAU's the computer science and engineering department (2002–09) and chair of the department of computer and electrical engineering and computer science (2009–13).

In 2013, 2019, and 2026 Furht was named Researcher of the Year at Florida Atlantic University. In 2024 he received the FAU Presidential Achievement Carrier Award (PACA).

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. He holds more than 100 patents in video coding including 13 essential patents for the VVC video coding standard. The FAU VVC patent portfolio was licensed to OP Solutions, and acquired by Dolby Corporation in 2026.