Graduate Fellowship Award Selection Committee | IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Society

Graduate Fellowship Award Committee Chair

Jay McDaniel

University of Oklahoma

United States

Jay McDaniel

Biography

Jay W. McDaniel (S’12–M’18) received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Kansas State University of Manhattan, KS, in 2013, the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Kansas of Lawrence, KS, in 2015, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering at the University of Oklahoma of Norman, OK, in 2018. His research interests include all-digital phased array radar system design for defense, commercial, and remote sensing applications; RF/microwave passive component design and integration; radar cross-section measurement techniques in cluttered environments; multi-sensor fusion techniques for position, navigation, and timing applications; and distributed coherent radar sensor networks.

From 2015 to 2016, he was a Radar Systems Engineer with the Department of Energy’s Kansas City National Security Campus (KCNSC), where he was also served as an RF/Microwave expert for several plant-driven research and development (PDRD) projects. In August 2018, he joined the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Oklahoma as an Assistant Professor and conducts research out of the Advanced Radar Research Center’s (ARRC’s) Radar Innovations Laboratory (RIL). His research has been supported by Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), the National Security Campus (NSC), Office of Naval Research (ONR), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and industry partners.

Dr. McDaniel is currently the chair of the instrumentation and measurement societies graduate fellowship award committee and the inaugural young affiliate member of the microwave theory and techniques technical committee TC-4 on “Microwave Passive Components and Transmission Line Structures” and TC-24 on “Microwave/mm-wave Radar, Sensing, and Array Systems.” He is a recipient of several awards, including the meritorious Richard K. Moore Best Master’s Thesis Award at the University of Kansas in 2015, the Office of the Vice President for Research and Partnerships Award for Excellence in Research Grants at the University of Oklahoma in 2021, and the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award in 2022.

Affiliation(s)

University of Oklahoma

United States

Graduate Fellowship Award Committee Member

Mohamed Abou-Khousa

Khalifa University of Science & Technology

United Arab Emirates

Kurt Barbé

Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels

Belgium

Kurt Barbé

Biography

Kurt Barbé (S’05-M’09-SM’16) received the Master degree in Mathematics and the PhD degree in engineering from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium, in 2005 and 2009 respectively. Presently, he is a professor at the VUB at the faculty of Medicine. He is furthermore a co-founder of the research group Digital Mathematics (DIMA) holding a strong expertise in applied mathematics for engineering sciences and beyond. At VUB, he is the founder of the interfaculty centre for data-processing and statistics providing statistical and methodological support to the university community at large. Dr. Barbé is a former research fellow of the Flemish Research Foundation (FWO) and VUB-coordinator of FLAMES – the Flemish inter-university training network on research methodology and statistics. His current research interest is in the field of numerical methods and computational statistics applied to biomedicine.

Dr. Barbé has served as an Associate Editor since 2010 and Associate Editor in Chief in 2018-2019 for the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement. Since 2017 he has served as secretary of the royal Belgian statistical society. Finally, since 2019 he has joined the editorial board for the journal Fractal and Fractional as well as Sensors. He was a recipient of the Outstanding Young Engineer Award from the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society in 2011 and the Andi Chi Best Paper Award of the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement in 2013. Two PhD students received the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Graduate Fellowship award under his supervision in 2012 and 2017.

Affiliation(s)

Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels

Belgium

Luca De Vito

Università degli Studi del Sannio

Italy

Luca De Vito

Biography

Luca De Vito (M’10–SM’12) received the master’s (cum laude) degree in software engineering and the Ph.D. degree in information engineering from the University of Sannio, Benevento, Italy, in 2001 and 2005, respectively. His master’s thesis was on automatic classification and characterization of digitally modulated signals. He joined the Laboratory of Signal Processing and Measurement Information, University of Sannio, where he was involved in research activities. In 2008, he joined the Department of Engineering, University of Sannio, as an Assistant Professor in electric and electronic measurement. In 2013, he received the National Academic Qualification as an Associate Professor. Since 2015, he collaborates with the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland, first as visiting scientist, and then as cooperation associate, working on magnet characterization, with the Magnetic Measurement Section (TE-MSC-MM), on diagnostics of cryogenic processes, with the Controls and Electrical Support Section (TE-CRG-CE), and on the characterization of RF cavities with the Hadron Synchrotrons Coherent effects Section (BE-ABP-HSC). Since June 2016 he is associated to the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) and collaborates to the ELI-NP (Extreme Light Infrastructure - Nuclear Physics) project.

He is Associate Editor of the ELSEVIER Measurement journal.

He is member of the IEEE since 2010, he is member of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society (IMS), of the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic System Society, and of the IEEE Standards Association. He is Senior Member of the IEEE since 2012. He is Chapter Chair Liaison of the IEEE IMS.

He is member of the AFCEA and is Young President of the AFCEA Naples Charter.

He published more than 100 papers on international journals and conference proceedings, mainly dealing with measurements for the telecommunications, data converter testing and biomedical instrumentation.

Affiliation(s)

Università degli Studi del Sannio

Italy

Christian Schuss

Finland