Membership Development Committee

Ruth A. Dyer

Kansas State University

United States

Ruth A. Dyer

Biography

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

Katelyn Brinker

Iowa State University

United States

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Judy Amanor-Boadu

Intel Corporation

United States

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Judy Amanor-Boadu

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Biography

Judy Amanor-Boadu, Ph.D. is an electrical engineer with over ten years of experience in the semiconductor, PC, and battery-charging industries. She currently holds the position of a senior analog engineer at Intel Corporation, where she focuses on power delivery modeling and characterization of Intel Xeon CPU processors for data-center products. She also provides implementation guidelines, performs feasibilities studies, and design verification of current and future generations of Xeon processors, graphics processing units, and accelerators.

She is a strong believer in the power of mentorship and the overall career development of people. During her doctoral studies at Texas A&M University, she served as the mentor for the first all-female autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) team to participate in the AUVSI Robosub competition, where she helped team members develop their practical engineering, project-management, and budgeting skills. She also served as an advisor for the SAE Supermileage and Vex-U teams and cofounded several student organizations, serving as a career resource for both undergraduate and graduate students during her time at Texas A&M University. She currently serves as an academic associate for the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) course at Arizona State University.

She served as the FY16 National Graduate Society of Women Engineers (SWE) webinar coordinator and Texas A&M University SWE mentorship coordinator from 2014 to 2016. During her tenure, she developed programs for both undergraduate and graduate students concerning career paths and job interviews. She also co-organized the first IEEE African workshop on Circuits and Systems in Ghana in 2017, and was a member of both the 2020 I2MTC and the Ph.D. Research in Microelectronics and Electronics technical program committees. Dr. Amanor-Boadu regularly serves as a reviewer for MDPI and IEEE publications. She is currently piloting a robotics and entrepreneurship program for middle schoolers in Accra, Ghana.

Her current and past research activities include the development of power integrity, lithium-ion battery charging algorithms, power management, energy harvesting, and wireless charging.

Dr. Amanor-Boadu holds the Bachelor of Science degree from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana, and the Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University.

Affiliation(s)

Intel Corporation

United States

Luca De Vito

Università degli Studi del Sannio

Italy

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Luca De Vito

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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

Bruno Andò

University of Catania

Italy

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Bruno Andò

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Biography

Bruno Andò is currently Associate Professor in Measurement Science at the Department of Electric, Electronic and Information Engineering (DIEEI) of the University of Catania, Italy.

He received the M.S. in Electronic Engineering and the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Catania, Italy, in 1994 and 1999 respectively. From 1999 he performs research in the fields of sensor and instrumentation at the DIEEI of the University of Catania.

RESEARCH ACTIVITY

Bruno Andò leads a group of researchers working in the following fields:

Smart Sensing Systems and Readout Electronics;
Assistive Technologies;
Nano and Micro Sensors, µ-fluidics, Bio-Sensors;
Inkjet Printed Sensors and Flexible Sensors;
Sensors exploiting innovative materials (ferrofluids, ferroelectrics and multiferroics);
Sensor Networks;
Smart signal processing and nonlinear techniques (including stochastic resonance and dithering) to improve performances of sensors and bio-receptors.

ACHIEVEMENTS IN SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES

Since 1997 he is member of IEEE, and since 2013 he is a Senior Member of IEEE.
He is the Chair Elected of the IEEE SAS Advisory Board, 2017-2019.
He belongs to the following Technical Committee of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society: TC-18 “Environmental Measurements”, TC-37 “Measurement and Networking” and TC-13 “Wireless & Telecommunications in Measurements”.
He is a member of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurements Faculty Course Development Award Committee for years 2016, 2017.
Since 2010 he is a member of the AitAAL (Italian Association on Ambient Assisted Living) and since 2004 he is a member of the Italian Group of Electric and Electronic Measurement “GMEE”, Italy.
Since 2015 he is the Chairman of the National Research Activity on “Sensors and Transducers for Measurement” of the Italian Measurement Group (GMEE).
He is delegated of the “Sicily (Italy) District on Micro&Nano Systems”, to the Italian Cluster on “Technology for Life Environments (TAV)”, as an expert in the field of "Technology for Assisted Living".
He belongs to the List of supporters of AALOA (AAL OPEN ASSOCIATION-www.aaloa.org/).
In 2011, 2013 he was with the Technical Program Committee of “EvAAL (Evaluating AAL Systems through Competitive Benchmarking)” competition organized by AALOpenAssociation on “Indoor Localization”, Valencia.
IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement 2017 Outstanding Reviewer

ACTIVITY IN JOURNAL EDITORIAL BOARDS

He is Associate Editor of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society - Video Tutorial.
He is Associate Editor in Chief of the IEEE Magazine on Instrumentation and Measurement.
He belongs to the editorial board of the Journal of Sensor Technology (Scientific Research Publishing, SCIRP).
He belongs to the editorial board of the Journal of Sensors (Hindawi).

He acted as a columnist of the IEEE Magazine on Instrumentation and Measurement.

CONFERENCES, PROJECTS, PUBLICATIONS

He has an active role as Organizer, TPC, Publicity Chair and Session Chair, for several National and International Conferences, the latest: IEEE I2MTC (2013,2014, 2015, 2016, 2018), IEEE M&N 2013, 2015, 2017), IEEE SAS (2016, 2017, 2018).
He is the scientific coordinator of several international and national research projects.
He has co-authored more than 8 patents and 200 scientific peer-review papers.
Detailed information are available: http://www.dees.unict.it/users/bando/index.html

EXPERT AND REVIEWER TASKS

He acts as an external expert and reviewer for the following institutions:

Research Executive Agency: H2020-MSCA-IF, H2020-MSCA-ITN, H2020-MSCA-RISE.
the National Centre of Science and Technology, Ministry of Education and Science, Republic of Kazakhstan, Astana.
National Centre for Research and Development, Poland.
Czech-Norwegian Research Programme CZ09.
Italian Research Ministry (MIUR), National Research Programs.
Italian MIUR, evaluation panel for the assessment of research quality in Italy (VQR).

TEACHING ACTIVITY

Since 1999, he has taught several classes in measurement and sensors science.
Since 2011 he teaches the English class, ”Sensors and advanced measurement systems” of the degree in Automation Engineering and Control of Complex Systems: http://masterinautomation.ing.unict.it/
Since 2013 he teaches the English class, “Electronic Measurements” of the degree in Electronic Engineering.
Bruno Andò has tutored several Master Degree and PhD thesis.

Affiliation(s)

University of Catania

Italy

Amir L. Rifi

Department of Radiotherapy/TROP

UZ Brussel/Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Belgium

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Lee Barford

Keysight Technologies

United States

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Max Cortner

Boston Scientific Corporation

United States

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Max Cortner

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Biography

J. Max Cortner earned a BSEE from Iowa State University and an MSEE from the University of Minnesota. After eighteen years as a Test Engineer in defense division of Sperry Corporation, Max moved to the Cardiac Rhythm Management division of Guidant, now the CRM Division of Boston Scientific. Boston Scientific CRM manufactures medical electronics including pacemakers and defibrillators. Max is currently a Senior Fellow Engineer in Test Engineering, a group responsible for automated electronic testing of components, subassemblies and final product in manufacturing. He is a licensed Professional Engineer, a Certified Project Management Professional, and a Senior Member of IEEE. As an active member of the IEEE Twin Cities Section since 1972, Max has held offices in the Computer Society including local chapter chair and area chair. He worked with a group of activists who organized and successfully ran a five-year series of multi-week technical symposia covering hot topics such as computer graphics and artificial intelligence. Max was among the founders of the Twin Cities Chapter of the Instrument and Measurement Society. He helped organize numerous local test conferences and served as General Chair for the IMTC 1998. In 1999, he served on the committee of the IEEE Sections Congress that was held in the Twin Cities. Max was Co-Chair of I2MTC held in Minneapolis in 2013. He now serves on the Instrumentation and Measurement Society Administration Committee in the role of Education Committee Chair, I2MTC Board Chair, and Industrial Relations Subcommittee Chair.

Affiliation(s)

Boston Scientific Corporation

United States

Michael Levin

Iowa State University

United States

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Sabrina Grassini

Politecnico di Torino

Italy

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