Fellow Evaluating Committee

Fellow Evaluating Committee Chair

Michael Gard

The Charles Machine Works

United States

Michael Gard

Biography

Michael F. Gard (SM ’84) was born in McPherson, KS in 1949. He received the B.S. in Electrical Engineering (magna cum laude) from Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS in 1971, the M.S. in Electrical Engineering (Interdepartmental Program in Biomedical Engineering) from Washington University, St. Louis, MO in 1972, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Geophysics from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX in 1992.
Dr. Gard has nearly forty years of industrial experience in design, R&D, and project leader positions. He is presently a Sr. Electrical Engineer employed by The Charles Machine Works, Perry, OK. Previous employers include Beech Aircraft Corporation, the Veterans Administration Medical Center (St. Louis, MO), AMOCO Exploration Company, ARCO Oil and Gas, and GE Medical Systems. He occasionally teaches as adjunct faculty in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK. He is a registered professional engineer; a registered patent agent; inventor or co-inventor of twenty-eight patents; author of a book, papers, and conference presentations; co-chairman of TC-18, the Instrumentation and Measurement Society’s Technical Committee on Environmental Monitoring; and serves as a reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement. He has presented tutorials on Environmental Monitoring at recent I2MTC conferences. His primary technical interests include real-time data acquisition, analog signal processing, and precision analog and analog/digital system design for low power and hostile environments.
Technical Committee Chair, TC-18

Affiliation(s)

The Charles Machine Works

United States

Fellow Evaluating Committee Vice Chair

Branislav Djokic

National Research Council

Canada

Fellow Evaluating Committee Member

Paolo Carbone

University of Perugia

Italy

Octavia A. Dobre

Memorial University

Canada

Octavia A. Dobre

Biography

Octavia A. Dobre is a Professor and Research Chair at Memorial University, Canada. She received the Dipl.-Ing. and Ph.D. degrees from Politehnica University of Bucharest (formerly Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest), Romania, in 1991 and 2000, respectively. She was the recipient of a Royal Society Scholarship at Westminster University, UK, in 2000, and held a Fulbright Fellowship with Stevens Institute of Technology, USA, in 2001. Between 2002 and 2005, she was with Politehnica University of Bucharest and New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA. In 2005, she joined Memorial University, Canada. She was a Visiting Professor with Université de Bretagne Occidentale, France, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, in 2013.

Her research interests include 5G enabling technologies, blind signal identification and parameter estimation techniques, cognitive radio systems, optical and underwater communications, as well as measurements in communications among others.

Dr. Dobre serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Communications Letters, as well as an Editor of the IEEE Systems and IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials. She was an Editor and a Senior Editor of the IEEE Communications Letters, an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and a Guest Editor of other prestigious journals. She served as General Chair, Tutorial Co-Chair, and Technical Co-Chair at numerous conferences. She is the Chair of the Signal Processing and Communications Electronics Technical Committee (IEEE ComSoc), as well as the Co-Chair of the Wireless and Telecommunications in Measurements Technical Committee (IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society). Among other roles, Dr. Dobre has been a member of the IEEE ComSoc Awards Committees, as well as of the IEEE Eric E. Sumner and IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award Committees. She is a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada.

Affiliation(s)

Memorial University

Canada

Region 10 (Asia and Pacific)

Deepak Uttamchandani

United Kingdom

Annamária R. Várkonyi-Kóczy

Obuda University

Hungary

Fellow Evaluating Committee Chair

Michael Gard

Fellow Evaluating Committee Vice Chair

Branislav Djokic

Fellow Evaluating Committee Member

Paolo Carbone

Octavia A. Dobre

Harold Kirkham

Zhigang Liu

Stefan Mozar

Deepak Uttamchandani

Annamária R. Várkonyi-Kóczy