Worthy Martin received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Texas-Austin in 1981. He then joined the University of Virginia in 1982 as an assistant professor of Computer Science and was promoted to associate professor in 1988. He has directed one Ph.D. thesis with three more in progress. He is the author or co-author of 55 papers.
Worthy Martin's primary research interest is dynamic scene analysis, i.e., computer vision in the context of time-varying imagery, as well as the fundamental concepts involved in machine perception systems composed of independent processes operating in distributed computing environments and cooperating to form interpretations of image sequences. Another major research topic involves methodologies for parallel probabilistic problem solving, including, formulations of genetic algorithms that are appropriate for implementation on multiprocessors. The applications are combinatorial optimization problems, e.g., VLSI floorplanning and feature selection for signal classification. Other research interests include content-based retrieval from image data bases, and multi-source data fusion algorithms with emphasis on neural network implementations.