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Ruqiang Yan

Xi'an Jiaotong University

China

Ruqiang Yan

Biography

Ruqiang Yan (M’07, SM’11) received the M.S. degree in precision instrument and machinery from the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, in 2002, and the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA, in 2007.

He was a Guest Researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in 2006-2008 and a Professor with the School of Instrument Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China from 2019 to 2018. He joined the School of Mechanical Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China, in 2018. His research interests include data analytics, machine learning, and energy-efficient sensing and sensor networks for the condition monitoring and health diagnosis of large-scale, complex, dynamical systems.

Dr. Yan is a Fellow of ASME (2019). His honors and awards include the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Technical Award in 2019, the New Century Excellent Talents in University Award from the Ministry of Education in China in 2009, and multiple best paper awards. He is also the Associate Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement and an Associate Editor of the IEEE Systems Journal and the IEEE Sensors Journal.

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Xi'an Jiaotong University

China

Melanie Ooi

The University of Waikato

New Zealand

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Melanie Ooi

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Melanie Ooi is an emerging researcher and engineering specialist in Electrical and Electronic Engineering as well as Computer Engineering and Computational Intelligence. She is currently an Associate Professor at The University of Waikato, New Zealand. While working in close collaboration with several leading multinational electronics companies, she has developed new testing techniques and test data processing methodologies that have been adopted by the industry partners. In the recent years she has also successfully researched on new measurement uncertainty evaluation approaches and frameworks with application to a multitude of science and technology areas (medical research, structural design, mechanical systems modelling, etc.). Her research competence and capability are evident from the extensive and fast growing list of publications, research grants and projects, as well as successfully supervised postgraduate students.

In addition, Associate Professor Ooi was particularly successful in the area of undergraduate and postgraduate education. She introduced several innovations and a well-structured education program enhancing key professional skills and thus increasing work-readiness and employability of engineering graduates that were successfully adopted and implemented by Monash University and RMIT University in their Southeast Asian campuses. They have been strongly supported by multinational electronics companies such as Intel, Freescale Semiconductor and National Instruments.

Her high professional achievements have been acknowledged by several prestigious awards including the Outstanding Young Engineer Award of the Year 2014 from the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society, 2014 Excellence Award from the International Education Association of Australia, 2011 Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning from the Australian Learning and Teaching Council to mention a few.

She is Senior Member of the IEEE, Member of the IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Society (I&MS); I&M AdCom (2019-2022)|| Young Professional Program Representative (2018)|| Distinguished Lecturer (2016 - December 2017), Distinguished Lecturer and Secretary of the Technical Committee on Fault Tolerant Measurement Systems (TC-32) of the IEEE I&MS. She is also Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, and UK Chartered Engineer.

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The University of Waikato

New Zealand

Chi Hung Hwang

Taiwan Instrument Research Institute, NARLabs

Taiwan

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Reza Zoughi

Iowa State University

United States

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Reza Zoughi

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R. Zoughi received his B.S.E.E, M.S.E.E, and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering (radar remote sensing, radar systems, and microwaves) from the University of Kansas where from 1981 until 1987 he was at the Radar Systems and Remote Sensing Laboratory (RSL). He is the Kirby Gray (Battelle) Chair in Engineering and a Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECpE) at Iowa State University (ISU). He served as the Schlumberger Endowed Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T) from January 2001 to August 2019. Prior to joining Missouri S&T and since 1987 he was with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Colorado State University (CSU), where he was a professor and established the Applied Microwave Nondestructive Testing Laboratory (amntl) (http://amntl.mst.edu/). Dr. Zoughi held the position of Business Challenge Endowed Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 1995 to 1997 while at CSU.

While at CSU he received nine teaching awards, including the State Board of Agriculture, Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award and the Abell Faculty Teaching Award. Since at Missouri S&T he has received seventeen Outstanding Teaching Awards & Commendations. He is the recipient of the 2007 IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Distinguished Service Award, the 2009 American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT) Research Award for Sustained Excellence and the 2011 IEEE Joseph F. Keithley Award in Instrumentation and Measurement. In 2013 he and his co-authors received the H. A. Wheeler Applications Prize Paper Award from the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (APS).

He is the author of a textbook entitled “Microwave Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation Principles” KLUWER Academic Publishers, 2000, and the co-author of a chapter on Microwave Techniques in the book entitled “Nondestructive Evaluation: Theory, Techniques, and Applications” Marcel and Dekker, Inc., 2002. He is the co-author of 170 refereed journal papers, 350⁺conference proceedings and presentations and 118 technical reports.

He served as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (2007-2011), two terms as an at-large AdCom member of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement (I&M) Society, I&M Society President (2014-2015) and serves as an I&M Society Distinguished Lecturer. He served as the General Co-Chair of the 2013 IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I²MTC). He has been elected as an at-large member of IEEE Publications Services & Products Board (PSPB) for two terms (2016-2018 & 2019-2021), and served on the IEEE TAB/PSPB (2015 & 2017-2019).

He has eighteen issued US patents to his credit (with several issued abroad) in the field of microwave nondestructive testing and evaluation. He has delivered numerous Invited and Keynote presentations on the subject of microwave and millimeter wave nondestructive testing and imaging. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a Fellow of the American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT).

I&M AdCom (2020-2023)|| TIM Associate Editor; I2MTC Board of Directors Chair (2016-2019)|| Society Awards Chair (2018-2019)|| Sr. Past President (2018-2019)|| Jr. Past President (2016-2017)|| N&A Committee Chair (2016-2017)|| Distinguished Lecturer (2018-2021)|| Distinguished Lecturer (2014-2017)

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Iowa State University

United States

Ferdinanda Ponci

RWTH Aachen University

Germany

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Lee Barford

Keysight Technologies

United States

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Branislav Djokic

National Research Council

Canada

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Marco Parvis

Politecnico di Torino

Italy

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Salvatore Graziani

Università di Catania

Italy

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Vedran Bilas

University of Zagreb

Croatia

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Vedran Bilas

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Vedran Bilas (M’98-SM'10) received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering in 1999 and his M.Sc. and Dipl. Eng. degrees in 1995 and 1991, respectively, all from the University of Zagreb. He is a professor of electrical engineering at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing of the University of Zagreb. He teaches electronic instrumentation, electronic systems, engineering management, and technology entrepreneurship. He received IEEE Croatia Section Award for Outstanding Contribution to Engineering Education in 2011. His research interests include low-power and energy-efficient sensing, electromagnetic induction sensing, and sensor data analytics.

Dr. Bilas was the founding chair of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Croatia Chapter in 2004. He was general co-chair of the IEEE Sensors Application Symposium, Zadar, 2015, and the IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, Dubrovnik, 2020. He was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Sensors Journal from 2017-2019. He received recognition as an Outstanding Reviewer of the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (IEEE TIM) in 2017 and Outstanding Associate Editor in 2018 and 2019. He was an Associate Editor in Chief of the IEEE TIM 2020-2021, and he currently serves as a Senior Area Editor: Circuits and Electronics of IEEE TIM. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Magazine since 2022. Dr. Bilas is a member of the IEEE IMS committees for the Best Dissertation Award and Faculty Course Development Award.

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University of Zagreb

Croatia