Biography

Emil M. Petriu, P.Eng. F'IEEE, F'CAE, F'EIC is a Professor and University Research Chair in the School of Information Technology (SITE), University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He received his Dr. Eng. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Timisoara, Romania, in 1978. In 1979, he held a UNESCO postdoctoral scholarship in the Department of Applied Physics at the Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in the Province of Ontario, Canada.
Since 1985, Dr. Petriu has been a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and then SITE, University of Ottawa, and has served as Chairman of the former from 1995 to 1997 and as Director of SITE from 1998 to 2001.

He has been actively involved in the organization of many international conferences, symposia and workshops. He was General Chair of the IMTC/2005 - IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, May 2005, in Ottawa, ON, Canada and VECIMS 2008 - IEEE International Conference on Virtual Environments, Human-Computer Interfaces and Measurement Systems, July 2008, in Istanbul, Turkey, and Honorary Chair of VECIMS 2009, May 2009, in Hong Kong, China. He served as Program Chair of the IMTC/97 - IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, May 1997, in Ottawa, ON, Canada, IMTC/98 in St. Paul, MN, USA, IMTC/2002 in Anchorage, Alaska, USA, IMS 2005 - IEEE International Workshop on Measurement Systems for Homeland Security, Contraband Detection and Personal Safety, March 2005, in Orlando, FL, USA, IMS 2006 in Alexandria, VA, USA, VECIMS 2007 - IEEE International Conference on Virtual Environments, Human-Computer Interfaces and Measurement Systems, June 2007, in Ostuni, Italy, I2MTC/2008 - IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, May 2008, in Victoria, BC, Canada, and CIVE 2009 - IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Virtual Environments, March 2009, in Nashville, TN, USA.

In recognition of his contributions to the engineering profession, in 2000, he was elected Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (FEIC), and in 2001, he was inducted as Fellow in the Canadian Academy of Engineering (FCAE). In 2001 he was elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (FIEEE) "for contributions to the development of pseudorandom encoding techniques for absolute position measurement." He received the 2003 IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Technical Award "for contributions to imaging processing systems, robotics, virtual reality and applications of artificial intelligence, fuzzy logic and neural networks." He was a co-recipient of the 2003 IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award, the unique paper award presented by IEEE in that year.
TC-15 Chair

Biography

Shervin Shirmohammadi received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 2000 from the University of Ottawa, Canada, where he is currently a Professor with the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He is the Director of the DISCOVER Lab, doing research in measurement methods and Applied AI for networks and multimedia systems. The results of his research, funded by more than $27 million from public and private sectors, include over 400 publications, 3 Best Paper awards, over 70 researchers trained at the postdoctoral, PhD, and Master’s levels, 30 patents and technology transfers to the private sector, and a number of awards. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Open Journal of Instrumentation and Measurement, was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement from 2017 to 2021, the Associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Magazine in 2014 and 2015 and is currently on the latter’s editorial board.

He has been an IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society (IMS) AdCom member since 2014, served as the Vice President of its Membership Development Committee from 2014 to 2017, and was a member of the IEEE I²MTC Board of Directors from 2014 to 2016.

Dr. Shirmohammadi is an IEEE Fellow for contributions to multimedia systems and network measurements, winner of the 2019 George S. Glinski Award for Excellence in Research, winner of the 2021 IEEE IMS Distinguished Service Award, a Senior Member of the ACM, a University of Ottawa Gold Medalist, and a licensed Professional Engineer in Ontario.

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Roberto Ferrero (S’10-M’14-SM’18) received his B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees (all cum laude) in Electrical Engineering from Polytechnic of Milan, Italy, in 2008, 2009 and 2013, respectively.

From 2015 to 2019 he was a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics, University of Liverpool, UK, where he is currently a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor). His research activity is focused on electrical measurements, mostly applied to electrical and electrochemical power systems and to biomedical signals and systems.

Dr. Ferrero is a Senior Member of the IEEE and of its Instrumentation and Measurement Society, and he is also involved in the activities of the Society’s TC-39 – Measurements in Power Systems. He is currently serving as an Associate Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (previously, he was an Associate Editor from 2017 to 2020), having been recognized as one of the Outstanding Associate Editors of this journal in 2018 and 2019.

He was also the recipient of the “Best application in Instrumentation and Measurement” award from the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society in 2016, and of the “Carlo Offelli” PhD thesis award from the Italian Group of Electrical and Electronic Measurements in 2014.

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Leopoldo Angrisani received the M.S. degree (cum laude) in Electronic Engineering and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Napoli Federico II, Italy. He is Full Professor of Electrical and Electronic Measurements with the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering of the University of Napoli Federico II. He is General Manager/Director of CeSMA – Center of Advanced Measurement Services of the University of Napoli Federico II. He is a member of the Board of the Ph.D. Program on Information Technology and Electrical Engineering of the University of Napoli Federico II. His research activity is currently focused on communication systems and networks test and measurement, compressive sampling based measurements, measurements for Internet of Things applications, measurements for Industry 4.0. He was and is being involved in many industrial research projects, in cooperation with small, medium and great enterprises, of which he plays the role of scientific coordinator with a total economic value of more than 10M€. He is Senior Member of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement and Communications Societies, Chair of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Italy Chapter, General Chairman of the first (M&N2011), second (M&N2013), third (M&N2015) and fourth edition (M&N2017) of the IEEE International Workshop on Measurements and Networking, and was one of the co-founders of the TC-37 “Measurements and Networking” technical committee of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society.

He is the Italian Representative in the IEC Validation Team-VT 60050 for maintenance and management of the International Electrotechnical Vocabulary and member of the Italian Association “GMEE-Electrical and Electronic Measurements Group”, of CNIT, National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications, of the Technical Committee CT 1/25 “Terminology, Quantities and Units” of CEI (Italian Electrotechnical Committee), of the Administrative Committee of Me.S.E., National Inter-University Research Consortium on Metrics and Measurement Technology on Electrical Systems. In 2009, he was awarded the IET Communications Premium for the paper entitled “Performance measurement of IEEE 802.11b-based networks affected by narrowband interference through cross-layer measurements” (published in IET Communications, vol. 2, No. 1, January 2008). In 2013, he was awarded the prestigious recognition "IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement Outstanding Reviewer". He is the author or co-author of more than 270 scientific articles, one-third of which published in relevant international journals.

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Professor Wuqiang Yang (FIEEE, FIET, FInstMC, CEng) received his BEng (Distinction) 1982, MSc 1985 and PhD (Distinction) 1988, from Tsinghua University. After 3 years as a Lecturer at Tsinghua University, he joined UMIST in 1991 and became Professor in 2005. Currently, he is Director of Business Engagement and Innovation in the Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. His research is focused on electrical capacitance tomography (ECT) and industrial applications.

He has published 400 papers and two books "Sensor Array" and "Imaging Sensor Technologies and Applications", and holds 10 patents, including 2 WO patents. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. IM and IET Sci. Meas. Technol. and editorial board member of 7 other journals, including Meas. Sci. Technol. and Sensor Review, and reviews papers for >50 journals.

He has been invited by many universities and research institutions worldwide and international conferences to give lectures/seminars/keynotes. From 2010 to 2016, he was an IEEE IMS Distinguished Lecturer. He is a visiting professor at 8 universities, including Tsinghua University. In 2006 he received Global Research Award from the Royal Academy of Engineering and took a sabbatical leave at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in USA as a visiting professor. He is one of key organizers of IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques. He organized many special issues as a Guest Editor for IEEE Trans. IM, Meas. Sci. Technol., Sensors and other journals. In 2016 he stayed at Chiba University in Japan as a JSPS Invitation Fellow. He will visit Chiba University again as a JSPS Bridge Fellow. He is recognized by International Center for Scientific Research (France), as one of top 30 technology researchers in the world, and Intota as an expert. 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. In 2019, he set up a joint research lab for touch sensors for domestic robots between University of Manchester and Beijing Tashan Co. Ltd.