The I&M Society Distinguished Lecturer Program (DLP) is one of the most exciting programs offered to our chapters, I&M members, and IEEE members. It provides I&M chapters around the world with talks by experts on topics of interest and importance to the I&M community. It, along with our conferences and publications, is the way we use to disseminate knowledge in the I&M field. Our lecturers are among the most qualified experts in their own field, and we offer our members a first-hand chance to interact with these experts during their lectures. The I&M Society aids chapters financially so that they might use this program.

All distinguished lecturers are outstanding in their fields of specialty. Collectively, the Distinguished Lecturers possess a broad range of expertise within the area of I&M. Thus, the chapters are encouraged to use this program as a means to make their local I&M community aware of the most recent scientific and technological trends and to enhance their member benefits. Although lectures are mainly organized to benefit existing members and Chapters, they can also be effective in generating membership and encouraging new chapter formation. Interested parties are encouraged to contact the I&M DLP Chair regarding this type of activity.

DLP Chair:

Ferdinanda Ponci I&M AdCom; Distinuished Lecturers Chair Contact

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2010 Distinguished Lecturers:

This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it is associate professor at the School of Information Technology and Engineering (SITE) at the University of Ottawa. He is the director of the Multimedia Communications Research Laboratory (MCRLab) and of the Information Technology Cluster, Ontario Research Network on Electronic Commerce. He has authored and co-authored two (2) books and more than 100 publications in the areas of software engineering development of multimedia artefacts and collaborative haptic virtual environments. He is winner of the prestigious Canadian “Premier's Research Excellence Awards” (PREA round 10). He is Editor of the International Journal of Advanced Media and Communication (IJAMC) and Associate Editor of the ACM Journal of Educational Resources in Computing (JERIC). He serves in the program committee (as chair) of several IEEE conferences and workshops related to multimedia communications and Haptics. His area of expertise is: Haptics Technologies: Theory and Applications.

This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it is Leader of Sensor Development and Application Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.  Kang has thirty some years of experience in electronic instrumentation and measurements, sensor-based measurement and control, and smart sensor standards.  As IEEE Fellow, Kang is quite active in serving the Instrumentation and Measurement Society.  He serves as AdCom Member for the Society and the IEEE Sensors Council. He serves as Chair of Technical Committee TC-9 that sponsors the smart sensor standards IEEE 1451 and precision clock synchronization standards IEEE 1588. Kang has served as technical program chair of IMTC 2000 and conference chair and program chair of Sensors for Industry Conferences. Kang was profiled by EE Times’s Great Mind, Great Ideas project as one of 29 innovators in the world in 2006. His area of expertise is:  IEEE 1451:   Empowering the Smart Sensor Revolution.

This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it was born in Lublin, Poland, in 1971. He received the MSc degree in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Lublin in 1995 and the PhD degree in the area of optical current measurement from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, in 2000. He currently holds a lecturing post in the Electronic and Electrical Engineering Department, University of Strathclyde, and is leading the Advanced Sensors Team within the Institute for Energy and Environment in the same department. He is also a technical director of a recently registered university spin-out company – Integrated Intelligent Monitoring Ltd. His main interests centre on the advancement of optical sensing methods in applications that lie predominantly in the fields of power industry and energy systems; he has published over 25 technical papers in this area. His area of expertise is: Advanced Optical Sensors for Power and Energy Systems’ Applications.

This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , Associate Professor at the School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, Canada, joined the University in 2004 after 4 years of industry experience. His research interests include Massively Multiuser Online Gaming and Virtual Environments, Application Layer Multicasting and Overlay Networks, Adaptive P2P Streaming, and Multimedia Assisted Rehabilitation Engineering. In addition to his academic publications, which include two Best Paper Awards, he has over a dozen technology transfers to the private sector. He is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Advanced Media and Communications, Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications, Associate Editor of Springer's Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications, and also chairs or serves on the program committee of many I&M Society’s conferences and workshops. Dr. Shirmohammadi is a University of Ottawa Gold Medalist, a licensed Professional Engineer in Ontario, Senior Member of the IEEE, and Professional Member of the ACM.  His area of expertise is:  Instrumentation and Measurement Applications for Virtual Environments, Networked Games, and Virtual/Pervasive Rehabilitation.

This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it (IEEE M’90-SM’97) received Dipl.Ing. degrees in Power Systems Engineering in 1981, in Electronics in 1984, M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 1988 and 1993, respectively, from the University of Belgrade, Serbia.  From 1982-1990, he was with R&D Institute Mihajlo Pupin, Belgrade. From 1990-1994 he was a Staff Member of the School of Electrical Engineering, Belgrade University. In 1994 he joined the Institute for National Measurement Standards, National Research Council of Canada.  Dr. Djokić is a registered Professional Engineer in the Province of Ontario. He is IEEE PES Emerging Technologies Coordinating Committee Vice-Chair, IEEE Canada Other-Societies Committee Chair, IEEE Ottawa Section Educational Activities Chair and past Section Chair. In 2007, he received IEEE Regional Activities Board (RAB) Award for leadership in support of IEEE Ottawa Section. At NCSLI 2008, he received the best paper award in the international track for his paper on the calibration of Rogowski coils.  His area of expertise is:  new instrumentation and measurement methods for both highest-accuracy and industrial applications for AC electrical power, energy, high voltage, and high current, including calibration of Rogowski coils, which are widely used for measurements of large and transient AC currents in protective relaying, power and automotive industries, and plasma physics.

This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it is the Schlumberger Endowed Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T), formerly University of Missouri-Rolla (UMR).  Prior to joining Missouri S&T in January 2001 he was with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Colorado State University (CSU), where he established the Applied Microwave Nondestructive Testing Laboratory (amntl). He held the position of Business Challenge Endowed Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 1995 to 1997 while at CSU. He is the author “Microwave Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation Principles” KLUWER Academic Publishers, 2000, and the co-author of a chapter on Microwave Techniques in “Nondestructive Evaluation: Theory, Techniques, and Applications” Marcel and Dekker, Inc., 2002.  He has been the recipient of numerous teaching awards both at CSU and Missouri S&T.  He was the recipient of the American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT) 2009 Research Award for Sustained Excellence, and the 2007 IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Distinguished Service Award. He is the co-author of more than 430 journal papers, conference proceedings/presentations and technical reports. He has nine patents to his credit all in the field of microwave and millimeter wave nondestructive testing and evaluation, and has delivered numerous invited talks on the subject. He is a Fellow of the American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT) and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He has been serving as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement since 2007. For more information see http://amntl.mst.edu.

This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it received a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from Old Dominion University in 1973 and 1976.  He received his Ph.D. from the University of Georgia in 2005.  His work experience includes positions at several US Naval facilities.  His duties included writing software for computer aided test systems.  He was a microwave systems engineer and district manager at the Hewlett Packard Company. He co-founded Innovative Measurement Solutions, Inc. in 1984.  He currently serves as president and CEO of the company.  He has taught at the Southern Polytechnic State University, Old Dominion University and the University of Georgia. In 1997 he was named ASAE teacher of the year at the University of Georgia. While at Georgia he worked with the Agricultural Research Service of the USDA.  This work involved measuring the permittivity of agricultural products.  These measurements can be correlated to moisture content, fruit ripeness and product quality.  He is currently working with Agilent Technologies developing materials property measurement techniques.  He has written numerous technical papers.  His current interests include using electromagnetic property measurements as a sensor for agricultural, pharmaceutical, medical, biological and chemical processes.

This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it is a Fellow of IET (formerly IEE) and Senior Member of IEEE. He received his BEng, MSc and PhD degrees from Tsinghua University in Beijing. Since 1991, he has been with The University of Manchester (formerly UMIST) in the UK and now is a professor in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. His main research interests include industrial tomography, especially electrical capacitance tomography, image reconstruction algorithms, sensing and data acquisition systems, electronic circuit design, instrumentation and multiphase measurement. He has published over 200 papers, is a referee for over 30 journals, editorial board member of 4 journals, guest editor of 2 journals and visiting professor at 4 universities. He received 1997 IEE Measurement Prize, 1997 Honeywell Prize, 2000 IEE Ayrton Premium, 2006 Global Research Award, and 2009 IET Innovation Award Finalist. His biography has been included in Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in Science and Engineering and Who’s Who in America since 2002.