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Fellows Coordination Committee Chair

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Marco Parvis

Politecnico di Torino

Italy

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Marco Parvis

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Marco Parvis was born in Italy in 1958. He received his MS degree in Electrical Engineering cum laude in 1982 from the Politecnico di Torino, Italy, and a Ph.D. in Metrology in 1987. He is now full professor of Electronic Measurements at Politecnico di Torino. He is the Past Dean of the Second Faculty of Engineering and Fellow Member of the IEEE Society on Instrumentation and Measurement for contributions to distributed data acquisition systems. In the same society he was chair of the TC 25 on Medical and Biological Measurement. His main fields of interest are: intelligent instrumentation, application of signal processing to measurement, biomedical and chemical measurements. At present in cooperation with the Department of Material Science and Chemical Engineering he is working on new sensors for mechanical and physical quantities, based on surface modification by plasma sputtering. He is author of more than one hundred thirty five publications. I&M AdCom (2018-2026); He is chair of the Fellows Evaluation Commette of the I&M; He was VP Technical & Standards Activities (2020-2023); He is on the I2MTC Board of Directors (2016-2024). He was I2MTC 2017 Conference Chair. He was IEEE Systems Council- Society Representative in 2016 and 2023.

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Politecnico di Torino

Italy

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Fellows Coordination Committee Member

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Salvatore Baglio

University of Catania

Italy

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Salvatore Baglio

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Salvatore Baglio received the “Laurea” and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Catania, Italy, in 1990 and 1994, respectively.

Since 1996 he is with the Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica Elettronica e Informatica, University of Catania, where he is currently Full Professor of Instrumentation and Measurement.

Prof. Baglio teaches courses in “measurement theory,” “electronic instrumentations,” and “Micro and nanosensors”.

His research interests are mainly focused on micro and nanotechnologies for sensors and transducers, micro and nanosensors, hysteretic materials for sensors, nonlinear dynamics for transducers, methodologies and integrated devices for energy harvesting.

He has coauthored more than 400 scientific publications including papers in international journals and in proceedings of international conferences, books, chapters in books. He is also co-inventor in international patents.

Prof. Baglio is IEEE Fellow, has served as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transaction on Circuits and Systems and for the IEEE Transaction on Instrumentation and Measurements, he has also been Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society.

Prof. Baglio is currently Associate Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transaction on Instrumentation and Measurements. He has been the General co-Chair of IEEE I2MTC 2018 and of IEEE SAS 2016 (SAS Steering Committee (2014-2017)).

Salvo Baglio is an I&M Society AdCom member (2015-2018) where he has served as Video Tutorials EIC (2015-2018), Faculty Course Development Award Selection Committee Member (2015-2016), Vice President Education (2016-2017), Society representative on IEEE Sensor Council AdCom (2017-2019, and the I&M Society AdCom Executive Vice President (2018-2019).

He is currently the Society President (2020-2021).

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University of Catania

Italy

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Branislav Djokic

National Research Council

Canada

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Branislav Djokic

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Branislav Djokić (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.

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National Research Council

Canada

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Ruth A. Dyer

Kansas State University

United States

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Ruth A. Dyer

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Ruth Dyer earned her doctorate in mechanical engineering from the University of Kentucky, and her bachelor's and master's degrees in biochemistry are from Kansas State University. She joined K-State in 1983 as an assistant professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering and was promoted to full professor in 1997. From 1998 up to her recent retirement, Dr. Dyer served in various administrative roles in the Office of the Provost. In her final, role she served as the senior vice provost for academic affairs.

She has served in a number of leadership roles in the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society (IMS), including Sr. Past President (2020-2021); Awards Chair (2020-2021), Jr. Past President (2018-2019), Nominations & Appointments Chair (2018-2019), President (2016-2017), Vice President for Membership, Vice President for Publications, Vice President for Finance, and Executive Vice President. She is a Fellow of the IEEE, and in 2011 she received the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society's Distinguished Service Award. She served as the General Program Co-Chair for the 2010 I2MTC and as the Technical Program Co-Chair for the 2011 I2MTC. She also served for a number of years as a member of the I2MTC Board of Directors. She served three four-year terms — 1999-2002, 2003-2006, and 2008-2011— as an elected member of the IMS Administrative Committee.

Dr. Dyer also was one of seven individuals from across the United States to be named a Fellow of the Association of Women in Sciences in 2006. She was an American Council on Education (ACE) Fellow in 2003-2004 and served during that time at Ohio State University. In 2013, she was selected for induction into the University of Kentucky (UK) College of Engineering Hall of Distinction, and she currently serves on the UK Engineering Dean’s Advisory Council.

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Kansas State University

United States

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Shervin Shirmohammadi

University of Ottawa

Canada

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Shervin Shirmohammadi

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Shervin Shirmohammadi received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 2000 from the University of Ottawa, Canada, and after spending 3 years in the industry as a senior architect and project manager, joined as Assistant Professor the same University, where since 2012 he has been a Full Professor with the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He is Director of the Discover Laboratory, doing research in machine learning-assisted measurements, especially vision-based measurement, IoT measurements, and multimedia and network measurements. The results of his research, funded by more than $28 million from public and private sectors, have led to over 400 publications, over 70 researchers trained at the postdoctoral, PhD, and Master’s levels, 30+ patents and technology transfers to the private sector, and four Best Paper 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 the 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, currently serves as its Executive Vice President, and was a member of the IEEE I 2 MTC Board of Directors from 2014 to 2016.

Dr. Shirmohammadi is an IEEE Fellow “for contributions to multimedia systems and network measurements”, and recipient of the 2019 George S. Glinski Award for Excellence in Research, the 2021 IEEE IMS Distinguished Service Award, and the 2023 IEEE IMS Technical Award “for contributions to the advancement of machine learning-assisted measurements”.

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University of Ottawa

Canada

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George Xiao

National Research Council

Canada

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George Xiao

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Gaozhi (George) Xiao (Fellow, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree from Loughborough University, U.K., in 1995. He is a Principle Research Officer with the National Research Council of Canada. He has published more than 100 papers in refereed journals and refereed conference proceedings, and one co-edited book. He is currently holding 5 U.S. patents. He has brought several technologies from concepts to products. He has managed large Research and Development projects in industries, academics and government labs covering areas, including RFID/NFC, flexible/printable/wearable electronics, fiber optic sensor systems, photonic sensing and measurement, structural health monitoring, indoor air quality monitoring, structural materials, and smart materials. He received the 2014 Technical Award from the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society, and the 2018 Distinguished Service Award from the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society. He is currently an Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Journal of Radio Frequency Identification and an Associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement.

I&M AdCom (2018-2021); VP Publications (2021); TIM Associate Editor-in-Chief; CRFID- Society Representative; TC-42 Chair.

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National Research Council

Canada

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Ruqiang Yan

Xi'an Jiaotong University

China

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Ruqiang Yan

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Ruqiang Yan 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 energy-efficient sensing, data analytics, and artificial intelligence for the condition monitoring, fault diagnosis and prognosis of large-scale, complex, dynamical systems.

Dr. Yan is a Fellow of IEEE (2022) and ASME (2019). His honors and awards include the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Distinguished Service Award in 2022, and Technical Award in 2019, and multiple best paper awards. Dr. Yan is the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, and Editorial Board Member of several other journals.

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Xi'an Jiaotong University

China

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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 is also the Director of Center for Nondestructive Evaluation (CNDE) at 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). 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, the 2011 IEEE Joseph F. Keithley Award in Instrumentation and Measurement and the 2020 IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Career Excellence Award. In 2013 and 2020 he and his co-authors received the H. A. Wheeler Applications Prize Paper Award from the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (APS). He is also the recipient of the 2023 American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT) Lester/Mehl Honor Lecture Award. He has twenty issued US patents to his credit (in addition to several issued abroad). He has served the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society and the IEEE in various capacities.

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Iowa State University

United States

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