Officers | IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Society

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President

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Juan Manuel Ramirez Cortés

National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics, & Electronics

Mexico

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Juan Manuel Ramirez Cortés

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Juan Manuel Ramirez Cortés was born in Puebla, Mexico. He received the B.Sc. degree from the National Politechnique Institute, Mexico, the M.Sc. degree from the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics, and Electronics (INAOE), and the Ph.D. degree from Texas Tech University, all in electrical engineering. Since 2007 he is at the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics, and Electronics, Mexico, with a current appointment as titular researcher “C”. He has served at INAOE in administrative positions as Academic Representative, Coordinator of the Electronics Department (2015-2016), and Research Director (2016-2017). He is currently member of the National Research System (SNI), level 2. From 1992 to 2007 he was with Universidad de las Americas-Puebla, Mexico, in several academic and administrative positions: faculty member, Graduate advisor, Chair of the Electrical Engineering Department, Dean of the Engineering School, and University Academic Secretary. From 2002 to 2004 he was president of the National Association of Engineering Schools (ANFEI-MEXICO), and president of the Iberoamerican Association of Academic Engineering Institutions (ASIBEI). In 2006 he received an honorary appointment from Texas Tech University as Academy Member of the Electrical and Computing Engineering Department. He is a senior member of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering), past president of IEEE Puebla Section, and founder Chair of the IEEE I&MS Puebla Chapter. In the last years he has been member of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Administrative Committee in several positions: past Finance Vice-President, past Treasurer and current Executive Vice-President. His scientific production to date consists of 56 refereed papers in scientific journals, 10 book chapters, and 150 papers in-extenso in proceedings of international conferences. He has been reviewer in several conferences and research journals, and project evaluator as RCEA member for CONACYT, Mexico. His research areas include signal and image processing, pattern recognition, neural networks, computer vision, instrumentation and sensors.

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National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics, & Electronics

Mexico

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Executive Vice President

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Juan Manuel Ramirez Cortés

National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics, & Electronics

Mexico

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Juan Manuel Ramirez Cortés

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National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics, & Electronics

Mexico

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Senior Past President

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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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Junior Past President

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Max Cortner

Boston Scientific Corporation

United States

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Max Cortner

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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.

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Boston Scientific Corporation

United States

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Vice-President Conferences

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Sebastian Yuri Catunda

Professor

Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), at Natal

Brazil

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Sebastian Yuri Catunda

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Sebastian Yuri Cavalcanti Catunda graduated in electrical engineering from the Federal University of Paraíba (1993), achieved M.Sc. degree from the Federal University of Paraíba (1996) and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Federal University of Campina Grande (2000) and École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications - ENST, Paris. He was a professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering of the Federal University of Maranhão (UFMA) from 1998 to 2011. At UFMA, he chaired the Graduate Program in Electrical Engineering from 2005 to 2011. In 2011 he joined the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), at Natal, where he is currently a full professor of the Department of Computer Engineering and Automation.

With the Brazilian Society of Automation (SBA), he founded the Instrumentation Committee in 2007 and was the society’s secretary of institutional relations from 2015 to 2016. He is Senior Member of IEEE since 2013. He founded in 2013 and presided until 2017, the Joint Chapter IEEE IMS / CASS of Bahia Section. He is a titular researcher, level 1D, in the Microelectronics area of the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), and member of its Advisory Board from 2012 to 2018. His research interests focus on instrumentation and microelectronics including the topics of sensors, analog and mixed circuits, embedded systems, and data acquisition systems, in which he has published more than 120 conferences and journals papers.

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Professor

Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), at Natal

Brazil

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Vice-President Education

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Chi Hung Hwang

Taiwan Instrument Research Institute, NARLabs

Taiwan

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Chi Hung Hwang

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Chi-Hung Hwang received the M.Sc. degree and the Ph.D. degree in Power Mechanical Engineering from the National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, in 1991 and 1996, respectively. Afterwards, he joined Precision Institution Development Center (PIDC) of National Science Council as an associate researcher. In 2002, he led the planning division on PIDC long-term planning. In 2003, he was elevated to be a researcher because of his achievement on system engineering of instrument. In 2004, he engaged in reorganizing PIDC from a government subsidiary organization into one of research orientated national laboratories. Afterwards, he led the division of planning & promotion division as well as the instrumentation engineering division of Instrument Technology Research Center (ITRC) of NARL. In 2008, he was assigned to be the deputy director general of ITRC; currently he is the chief technology officer of ITRC and he also leads applied optics division on the development of spectrum imaging system for bio- and semi-industry applications. I&M AdCom (2020-2023); (2016-2019)|| TC-18 Chair (2019); TC-18-Member (2018)|| VP Conferences (2017-2018); Conference Committee Chair (2017-2018)|| I2MTC Board of Directors (2015-2017);|| I2MTC Conference Chair (2016)

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Taiwan Instrument Research Institute, NARLabs

Taiwan

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Vice-President Finance

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Kristen Donnell

Missouri University of Science & Technology

United States

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Kristen Donnell

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Kristen M. Donnell (S’07-M’11-SM’12) received her B.S.E.E. degree in May 2001
from Colorado State University, her M.S.E.E degree in December 2003 from the
University of Missouri-Rolla, and her Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at
Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T) in December
2010. She is currently a Woodward Associate Professor of Excellence in the
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Missouri S&T, Interim
Director of the Center for Infrastructure Engineering Studies, and the Director of
the Microwave Sensing (Sense) Laboratory. Her current research interests
include thermography, frequency selective surfaces, materials characterization,
and microwave and millimeter wave nondestructive testing. Prior to starting her
Ph.D. work, Kristen was employed by Raytheon Company, Tewksbury, MA, from
2003 to 2006 as a Systems Engineer and Electrical Engineer. Dr. Donnell is a
Senior Member of IEEE and has been involved with the IEEE Instrumentation
and Measurement Society since 2007. She currently serves as the Vice
President of the Finance Committee and the Chair of the Distinguished Lecturer
Program.

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Missouri University of Science & Technology

United States

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Vice-President Membership

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Ferdinanda Ponci

RWTH Aachen University

Germany

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Ferdinanda Ponci

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Ferdinanda Ponci graduated with a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Politecnico di Milano (Italy), in 2002. She joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of South Carolina, (USA), as an Assistant Professor in 2003, and became Associate Professor in 2008. In 2009, she joined the Institute for Automation of Complex Power Systems, E.ON Research Center, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, where she is currently a Professor for “Monitoring and distributed control for power systems”.

She is currently engaged in research projects on advanced monitoring and low-cost instruments for medium and low voltage active distribution systems. She has published 60+ journal paper, of which 28 on TIM and 130+ conference papers.

She is a Senior Member of the IEEE. She has been a member of the Administration Committee of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society (IMS) for two terms between 2010 and 2017. She has served the IMS as Vice-President for Education, as Liaison with IEEE Women in Engineering, as Chair of the Distinguished Lecturer Program, Distinguished Lecturer (May, 2014 thru 12/31/2017), as Conference Treasurer, and as Chair of the Graduate Fellowship Award Committee. She has been elected to the IMS Administration Committee for the term 2019-2022. She has served on Program Committees of IMS conferences, and as a reviewer for TIM and the I&M Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, on Power Delivery, on Smart Grid, and on Industrial Electronics.

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RWTH Aachen University

Germany

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Vice-President Publications

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Kurt Barbé

Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels

Belgium

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Kurt Barbé

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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.

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Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels

Belgium

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Vice-President Technical & Standards

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Sergio Rapuano

University of Sannio

Italy

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Sergio Rapuano

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Sergio Rapuano achieved the MS degree in Electronic Engineering with honors in 1999 and the PhD degree in Computer Science, Applied Electromagnetism and Telecommunications in 2003 from University of Salerno, Italy.

In 2002 he joined the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Sannio, where he currently is Associate Professor of Electric and Electronic Measurement at the Department of Engineering.

He is senior member of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society and member of the IEEE Standards Association. In particular, within the Instrumentation and Measurement Society he is: Chapter Chair liaison, member of the “Waveform Generation, Measurement and Analysis” Technical Committee (TC-10), chairing the Subcommittee on “Jitter Measurement”; member of the Technical Committee on “Education for Instrumentation and Measurement” (TC-23); vice-chairman of the Subcommittee on Objective Blood Pressure Measurement formed within the Technical Committee on “Medical and Biological Measurements” (TC-25), secretary of the TC-25.

Since 2003 he participated in the organisation of several international scientific meetings in the field of Electronic Measurements: the IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technical Conferences, the International Measurement Confederation (IMEKO) TC-4 Symposia, the IEEE International Workshops on Medical Measurements and Applications, the IMEKO International Workshops on Analog to Digital Converters Modelling and Testing, playing different roles: session chairman, member of the technical program committee, technical co-chairman, general co-chairman.

He published more than 150 papers in international journals and in national and international conference proceedings on the following subjects: ADC and DAC Modelling and Testing, Digital Signal Processing, Distributed Measurement Systems, Medical Measurement and has been guest editor of the following journals: IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Measurement, Computer Standards and Interfaces and International Journal of Advanced Media and Communications.

He received from the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society the Outstanding Young Engineer Award 2007.

Affiliation(s)

University of Sannio

Italy

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Treasurer

Personnel:

Helena Geirinhas Ramos

Technical University of Lisbon

Portugal

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Helena Geirinhas Ramos

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Helena Geirinhas Ramos received the Ing., M.Sc. and PhD. Degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Technical University of Lisbon in 1980, 1987, 1995 and 2005 respectively. She is Associate Professor in IST where she is a faculty member since 1980. She is Senior Researcher at Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT). Her research areas include non destructive testing, transducers, measurement interfaces, ADC testing and ferromagnetic materials modelling. She is author or co-author of 3 book chapters, 49 scientific papers in international journals and more than 160 conference proceeding papers. She has supervised 6 PhD thesis, more than 40 Master thesis and internship supervisions and participated in several national and international academic juries. Presently, she is Vice-president of IST Scientific Board and as the most significant management positions that she has already exercised one can refer Member of IST Board of Directors, Vice-President of the Electrical and Computer Department, Director of IT. She acts regularly as an expert evaluator for the European Commission and other international funding agencies.

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Technical University of Lisbon

Portugal

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